 | 1847 - 788 pàgines
...on the day of the battle of Culloden, when it became snddenly peopled by the Jacobite fugitives. " Impressed with the belief that they were fairies —...strange and magnificent apparition to become invisible." But whether the eye winked or not, there they were — substantial able-bodied fellows ; ' what could... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1848 - 500 pàgines
...severely for the temporary reception of the Prince, being wasted and destroyed by the 1 [" A lady, who, then a girl, was residing in Lord Lovat's family,...than the presence of fairies, or even demons."— .Scorr, ante, voL xx. pp. 83.] English soldiery with unusual rigour.1 From Invergarry the fugitive... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1835 - 396 pàgines
...Culloden, that Lovat beheld the unfortunate prince in whose cause he had sacrificed himself. A lady, who, then a girl, was residing in Lord Lovat's family,...dreadful than the presence of fairies, or even demons. The tower on which he had depended had fallen to crush him, and he only met the Chevalier to exchange... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1835 - 402 pàgines
...Culloden, that Lovat beheld the unfortunate prince in whose cause he had sacrificed himself. A lady, who, then a girl, was residing in Lord Lovat's family,...dreadful than the presence of fairies, or even demons. The tower on which he had depended had fallen to crush him, and he only met the Chevalier to exchange... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1836 - 462 pàgines
...filled with horsemen riding furiously towards the castle, that, impressed with the belief that they weru fairies, who, according to Highland tradition, are...than the presence of fairies, or even demons."— SCOTT, ante, vol. xx. pp. 83. J English soldiery with unusual rigour.1 From Invergarry the fugitive... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1836 - 476 pàgines
...were fairies, who, according to Highland tradition, are visible to men only from one twinkle of tlie eye-lid to another, she strove to refrain from the...than the presence of fairies, or even demons."— SCOTT, ante, vol. xx. pp. 83. J English soldiery with unusual rigour.1 From Invergarry the fugitive... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1816 - 594 pàgines
...Culloden, that Lovat beheld the unfortunate prince in whose cause he had sacrificed himself. A lady, who, then a girl, was residing in Lord Lovat's family,...dreadful than the presence of fairies or even demons. The tower on which he had depended had fallen to crush him, and he only met the Chevalier to exchange... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1841 - 456 pàgines
...Culloden, that Lovat beheld the unfortunate prince in whose cause he had sacrificed himself. A lady, who, then a girl, was residing in Lord Lovat's family,...dreadful than the presence of fairies, or even demons. The tower on which he had depended had fallen to crush him, and he only met the Chevalier to exchange... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1841 - 540 pàgines
...us the unexpected appearance of Prince Charles and his flying attendants at Castle Dounie. The wild, desolate vale on which she was gazing with indolent...magnificent apparition to become invisible. To Lord • " I tremí)!*'," auib the conqueror of Culloilen, " fnr fear that thi> vile spot may still IK-... | |
 | Katherine Thomson - 1845 - 436 pàgines
...the Castle, that, impressed with the idea that they were fairies, who, according to men, are visible only from one twinkle of the eyelid to another, she...dreadful than the presence of fairies or even demons. The tower on which he had depended had fallen to crush him, and he only met the Chevalier to exchange... | |
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... impressed with the belief that they were fairies, who, according to highland tradition, are visible to men only from one twinkle of the eye-lid to another, she strove to refrain from the vibration, which she believed would occasion the strange and... 
