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Search - Heart Of Mid-Lothian - Vol.I

Heart Of MidLothian VolI
Author: Sir Walter Scott

Text extracted from opening pages of book: TALES OF MY LANDLORD. Hear, Land o* Cakes and brither Scots, Frae Maidenkirk to Jonny Groats', If there's a hole in a' your coats, I rede ye tent it ; ' A duel's amang you takin' notes, Au* faith he'll prent it ! BURN*. Ahora bien, dixo il Cura, traedme, scnor hutsved, aquesos li~ sy que los quiero ver.... more » Que me place, respondib el, y entrando^ en su aposento, saco del una jnaletilla vit> ja cerrada co? i una, cadenilla, y abriendola, hallo en ella tres tibros grandes y iuios papeles de muy buena, letra escritos de ma? w. DON QUIXOTE, Parte I. Capitulo 32. It is mighty well, said the . priest ; pray, landlord, bring me those books, for I have a mind to see them. With all my heart, answered the host ; and, going to his chamber, he brought out a little old cloke-bag, with a padlock and chain to it, and, open ing it, he took out three large volumes, and some manuscript papers written in a fine character. JARVIS'S Translation. THE HEART OF MID-LOTHIAN. CHAPTER I. The spirit I have seen May be the devil. And the devil has power To assume a pleasing shape. Hamlet. \ VITCHCRAFT and demonology, as we have had already occasion to remark, were at tins period be lieved in by almost all ranks, but more especially among the stricter classes of presbyterians, whose government, when their party were at the head of the state, had been much sullied by their eagerness to enquire into, and persecute these imaginary crimes. Now, in this point of view, also, Saint Leonard's Crags and the adjacent Chase were a dreaded and ill-reputed district. Not only had witches held their meetings there, but even of very Late years the enthusiast, or impostor, mentioned in the Pandaemonium of Richard Bovet, Gentleman,* * Note 1., p. 19. The Fairy Boy of Leith. 4 TALES OF MY LANDLORD. had, among the recesses of these romantic cliffs, found his way into the hidden retreats where the fairies revel in the bowels of the earth. With all these legend*-Jeanie Deans was too well acquainted, to escape that strong impression which they usually make on the imagination. Indeed, re lations of this ghostly kind had been familiar to her from her infancy, for they were the only relief which her father's conversation afforded from controver sial argument, or the gloomy history of the strivings and testimonies, escapes, captures, tortures, and executions of those martyrs of the Covenant, with whom it was his chiefest boast to say he had been acquainted. In the recesses of mountains, in ca verns, and in morasses, to which these persecuted enthusiasts were so ruthlessly pursued, they con ceived they had often to contend with the visible assaults of the Enemy of mankind, as in the cities, and in the cultivated fields, they were exposed to those of the tyrannical government and their sol diery. Such were the terrors which made one of their gifted seers exclaim, when his companion returned to him, after having left him alone in a haunted cavern in Sorn in Galloway, It is hard living in this world incarnate devils above the earth, and devils under the earth ! Satan has been here since ye went away, but I have dismissed him by resistance ; we will be no more troubled with him this night. David Deans believed this, and many other such ghostly encounters and victories, on the faith of the Ansars, or auxiliaries of the banished prophets. This event was beyond David's THE HEART OF MID-LOTHIAN. 5 remembrance. But he used to tell with great awe, yet not without a feeling of proud superiority to his auditors, how he himself had been present at a field-meeting at Crochmade, when the duty of the day was interrupted by the apparition of a tall black man, who, in the act of crossing a ford to join the congregation, lost ground, and was carried down apparently by the force of the stream. All were instantly at work to assist hirn, but with so little success, that ten or twelve stout men, who had hold of the rope which they had cast in to his aid, were rather i

ISBN-13: 9781406766875
ISBN-10: 1406766879
Publication Date: 3/15/2007
Pages: 408
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Publisher: Scott Press
Book Type: Paperback
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