 Harry, or to the babe that's yet to be born — God forbid — and make them kind to the poor, and better folk than their father! — And now, ride e'en your ways; for these are the last words ye'll ever hear Meg Merrilies speak, and this is the last...  The Augustan review - Page 2221815Full view - About this book
 | Walter Scott - 1898 - 920 pages
...ever hear Meg Merrilies speak, and this is the last reise that I'll ever cut in the bonny woods of Ellangowan." So saying, she broke the sapling she...contemptuous. The Laird was clearing his voice to apeak, and thrusting his hand in his pocket to find a half-crown ; the gypsey waited neither for his... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1898 - 764 pages
...ever hear Meg Merrilies speak, and this is the last reise that I 'll ever cut in the bonny woods of Ellangowan." So saying, she broke the sapling she...her hand, and flung it into the road. Margaret of 1 Delicacies. Anjou, bestowing ou her triumphant foes her keenedged malediction, could not have turned... | |
 | Richard Dacre Archer-Hind, Robert Drew Hicks - Classical literature - 1899 - 518 pages
...ye '11 hear Meg Merrilies speak, and this is the last reise that I'll ever cut in the bonny woods of Ellangowan. [So saying, she broke the sapling she held in her hand, and flung it into the road.'} SIB WALTER SCOTT. Guy Mannering, Chap. vin. Ω Τλησιπο'λ.έμων Ιππότ evyev&v αϊτό,... | |
 | C. van Tiel, M. G. van Neck - English literature - 1900 - 472 pages
...hear Meg Merrilies speak, and this is the last reise 13) that I'll ever cut in the bonny 14) woods of Ellangowan." So saying, she broke the sapling she held in her hand, and I) Own. 2) Thatch. 3) Sheds, huts. 4.) To stare. 6) Would have. 6) Vroviaion of whatever kind. 7) Old.... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1910 - 634 pages
...the scene, he refers us to the source from which he has drawn : ' Margaret of Anjou ' (he says), ' bestowing on her triumphant foes her keenedged malediction,...from them with a gesture more proudly contemptuous.' From the mind of Scott Shakespeare was never far ; and with ' Henry the Sixth,' especially the final... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1910 - 636 pages
...ever hear Meg Merrilies speak, and this is the last reise j that I'll ever cut in the bonny woods of Ellangowan." ' So saying, she broke the sapling she held in her hand and flung it into the road.' What wonder if the world sat up to listen ! To praise such a composition would be superfluous indeed,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1910 - 644 pages
...ever hear Meg Merrihes speak, and this is the last reise f that I'll ever cut in the bonny woods of Ellangowan." ' So saying, she broke the sapling she held in her hand and flung it into the road.' What wonder if the world sat up to listen ! To praise such a composition would be superfluous indeed,... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1923 - 676 pages
...ever hear Meg Merrilies speak, and this is the last reise that I'll ever cut in the bonny woods of Ellangowan.' So saying, she broke the sapling she...clearing his voice to speak, and thrusting his hand in his pocket to find a half-crown; the gipsy waited neither for his reply nor his donation, but strode... | |
 | Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch - English prose literature - 1925 - 1124 pages
...ever hear Meg Merrilies speak, and this is the last reise that I'll ever cut in the bonny woods of Ellangowan.' So saying, she broke the sapling she...clearing his voice to speak, and thrusting his hand in his pocket to find a half-crown ; the gipsy waited neither for his reply nor his donation, but strode... | |
 | James E. Ford - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 176 pages
...ever hear Meg Mer—lies speak, and this is the last reise that I'll ever cut in the bonny woods of Ellangowan." So saying, she broke the sapling she held in her hand and flung it into theroad.(120) Verrall quite accurately discerns that the structuring principle of the passage is, "As... | |
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