Rob Roy, Volum 3James Ballantyne and Company For Archibald Constable and Company Edinburgh; and Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, London., 1818 - 348 pàgines |
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Pàgina 122 - I could have bid you live," she said, "had life been to you the same weary and wasting burden that it is to me — that it is to every noble and generous mind. But you — wretch ! — you could creep through the world, unaffected by its various disgraces, its ineffable miseries, its constantly accumulating masses of crime and sorrow; you could live and enjoy yourself, while the nobleminded are betrayed — while nameless and birthless villains, tread on the neck of the brave and...
Pàgina 121 - He prayed but for life — for life he would give all he had in the world : it was but life he asked — life, if it were to be prolonged under tortures and privations...
Pàgina 122 - ... long-descended; you could enjoy yourself, like a butcher's dog in the shambles, battening on garbage, while the slaughter of the brave went on around you! This enjoyment you shall not live to partake of; you shall die, base dog! and that before yon cloud has passed over the sun.
Pàgina 80 - Thornton, a man of conduct as well as courage, instantly resolved to force the pass •in front, without waiting till he was assailed from the rear ; and assuring his soldiers that the bagpipes which they heard were those of the friendly Highlanders who were advancing to their assistance, he stated to them the importance of advancing and securing Rob Roy, if possible, before these auxiliaries should come up to divide with them the honour, as well as the reward which was placed on the head of this...
Pàgina 121 - ... pale as ashes, hands compressed in agony, eyes that seemed to be taking their last look of all mortal objects, he protested, with the deepest oaths, his total ignorance of any design on the life of Rob Roy, whom he swore he loved and honored as his own soul.
Pàgina 84 - Campbell," answered the officer, " and make no war on women ; therefore offer no vain opposition to the king's troops, and assure yourself of civil treatment." " Ay," retorted the amazon, " I am no stranger to your tender mercies. Ye have left me neither name nor fame —my mother's bones will shrink aside in...
Pàgina 120 - It was under the burning influence of revenge that the wife of MacGregor commanded that the hostage, exchanged for her husband's safety, should be brought into her presence. I believe her sons had kept this unfortunate wretch out of her sight, for fear of the consequences; but if it was so, their humane precaution only postponed his fate.
Pàgina 120 - MacGregor commanded that the hostage exchanged for his safety should be brought into her presence. I believe her sons had kept this unfortunate wretch out of her sight, for fear of the consequences; but if it was so, their humane precaution only postponed his fate. They dragged forward at her summons a wretch already half dead with terror, in whose agonized features I recognized, to my horror and astonishment, my old acquaintance Morris.
Pàgina 78 - Our route, though leading towards the lake, had hitherto been so much shaded by wood, that we only from time to time obtained a glimpse of that beautiful sheet of water. But the road now suddenly emerged from the forest ground, and, winding close by the margin of the loch, afforded us a full view of its spacious mirror, which now, the breeze having totally...