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... the three ermines passant) he sometimes cursed in his heart the jargon of heraldry, its griffins, its moldwarps, its wyverns, and its dragons with al... ...sisting of mighty cheeses and mightier ale, pheasants and venison, and the Scottish returns being vested in grouse, white hares, pick- led salmon, and... ...hom she probably deemed some- what susceptible, against the fascination of Scottish beauty. She allowed that the northern part of the island contained... ...their heritage, since the days of the gracious King Duncan. CHAPTER VIII A SCOTTISH MANOR-HOUSE SIXTY YEARS SINCE IT WAS ABOUT NOON when Captain W ave... ...been built at a period when castles were no longer necessary, and when the Scottish architects had not yet acquired the art of designing a domestic re... ...ovecot, or Columbarium, as the owner called it, was no small resource to a Scottish laird of that period, whose scanty rents were eked out by the cont... ...lantes; the Latins arma cantantia; and your En- glish authorities, canting heraldry; being indeed a species of emblazoning more befitting canters, gab... ...n playing upon the word, than the noble, honourable, and useful science of heraldry, which assigns armorial bearings as the reward of noble and genero... ... have tired of the conversation of so violent an asserter of the ‘boast of heraldry’ as the Baron; but Edward found an agreeable variety in that of Mi...

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...It was by discerning this lack of unity, which in no way detracts from the Scottish writer’s greatness, that I perceived at once the scheme which woul... ...amilies, its places and things, its persons and their deeds; as it has its heraldry, its nobles and commonalty , its artisans and peasants, its politi...

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... legs, and, ascending above the calf, left the knees bare, like those of a Scottish Highlander. T o make the jacket sit yet more close to the body, it... ...ell whether the Saxon war-cry was not heard as far within the ranks of the Scottish host as the cri de guerre of the boldest Norman baron. To the memo... ...osed to have occasioned the introduction of supporters into the science of heraldry. 63 Sir Walter Scott front of the pavilions, and the whole was gu... ... original purpose; “to place the vanquished be- side the victor were false heraldry.” “Knave upon fool were worse,” answered the Jester, “and Jew upon... ...imed the anxious enquirer. * The author has been here upbraided with false heraldry, as having charged metal upon metal. It should be remembered, howe... ...as having charged metal upon metal. It should be remembered, however, that heraldry had only its first rude origin during the crusades, and that all t... ...ce of Godfrey’s quali- ties should not be bound by the ordinary rules. The Scottish Nisbet, and the same Ferne, insist that the chiefs of the Cru- sad... ...ecclesiastics, but in lay impropriators of the church revenues, or, as the Scottish law- yers called them, titulars of the temporalities of the benefi... ...uld be devised to give an appearance of novelty to subsequent productions. Scottish manners, Scottish dialect, and Scottish characters of note, being ...

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...annot pretend that I was sorry when his sister succeeded in his place. She brought me a few crusts of bread and a jug of milk, which she had hand- som... ...o escape from the crowd that had assembled to receive the mail. Here we were, with but little daylight before us, and that 198 St. Ives on Saturday a... ...implied a great deal of pen- etration in herself, and proved of great use to me in the immediate sequel. It seemed he was an enthusiastic anti- quary,... ...ays into the wall, offered traces of heraldic sculp- ture. At once there came a wild idea into my mind: his appearance tallied with Flora’s descriptio... ...-goers. ‘Ah!’ said my companion, ‘there are the bells! Now, sir, as you are a stranger I must offer you the hospitality of my pew. I do not know wheth... ...een. I told her boastfully, giving her the name of the church and the di- vine, and ignorantly supposing I should have gained caste. But she soon open... ... I; ‘and have you been to church?’ ‘If you please, sir,’ he said. 217 Stevenson ‘Well, you have not been any less unlucky than I have,’ I returned. ‘...

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...ion, in the emphatic words, ‘Hang them a’!’ Unanimity is not required in a Scottish jury, so the verdict of guilty was returned. Jean was present, and... ...ed tempore Caroli primi was, says my authority, Sir Robert Douglas, in his Scottish Baronage (see the title Ellangowan), “a steady loyalist, and full ... ...was very gloomy. Equipt in a habit which mingled the national dress of the Scottish com- mon people with something of an Eastern costume, she spun a t... ...arly period, acknowledged as a separate and independent race by one of the Scottish monarchs, and that they were less favourably distinguished by a su... ...birth of time, —Scenes of Infancy. IN TRACING THE RISE and progress of the Scottish Maroon war, we must not omit to mention that years had rolled on, ... ...n full human size, or larger, a salvage man proper, to use the language of heraldry, wreathed and cinctured, and holding in his hand an oak- tree erad...

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...r of ancestry on the character is not limited to the inheritance of cells. If I buy ancestors by the gross from the benevolence of Lyon King of Arms, ... ...gh, low. Laird, landed proprietor. Lane, alone. Lave, rest, remainder. Linking, tripping. Lown, lonely, still. Lynn, cataract. Lyon King of Arms, the ...

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... Horace was—to hint at the possibility of Rupert’s having been lost on the Scottish mountains, blown up on the railroad, or sunk in a steam-vessel—to ... ...that will be all the difference.’ ‘Well are the male kind called barons in heraldry,’ said Eliza- beth; ‘there is no denying that they are a lordly ra...

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...ven years old, as soon as our tutor had finished his long extract from the Scottish judge’s prelection, I could express my thankfulness for what I had... ...well as of critical sagacity, applied to the Greek idiomatic niceties by a Scottish lawyer, viz., that the same eccentric judge, first made known to u... ... between him and Dr. Johnson, noticed in Boswell’s account of the doctor’s Scottish tour. “Ah, doctor,” said Lord M., upon some casual suggestion of t... ...d that I had myself seen many notices of this family, not only in books of heraldry, &c., but in the very earliest of all English books. “ And what bo... ... younger sister of my friend’s mother, had been engaged for some time to a Scottish nobleman, the Earl of Morton, much esteemed by the royal family. T...

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...s, a little reading, some writ- ing, very bad orthography, embroidery, and heraldry; but they were very good-natured, and had a number of pensionnaire... ...eserved all down the length of the nave by the tall, towering forms of the Scottish archers, in their rich accoutrements, many of them gallant gentlem... ...wished they had been younger and more fash- ionable, instead of a poor old Scottish cavalier and his wife, my mother’s old contemporary Madame de Deli... ...Sir Andrew Macniven, who had made his way through the mob like a brave old Scottish knight, brought us word that he could assure us that our own Queen... ...brother in, for indeed he was hardly fit to walk downstairs. Presently the Scottish knight knocked at the door, and de- sired to speak with me. ‘What ...

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...wever, pretend to have approached the task with the same feelings; for the candid Robertson himself confesses having felt the prejudices with which a Scottishman is tempted to regard the subject; and what so liberal a historian avows, a poor romance-writer dares not disown. But he hopes the influence of a prejudice, almost as natural to him as his native air, will not be f...

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...candid Robertson himself confesses having felt the prejudices with which a Scottishman is tempted to regard the subject; and what so liberal a histori... ...worth account of his profound learning, which, though it only re- lated to heraldry and genealogy, with such scraps of history as connected themselves... ...study to free her from the villain’s nets of infamy.” “They are called, in heraldry, Laquei Amoris, or Lacs D’Amour,” said Mumblazen. “It is in that I... ...th Varney as is fitting.” “Patience and Varney,” said Mumblazen, “is worse heraldry than metal upon metal. He is more false than a siren, more rapacio... ...et let him take care of me. I fly him now, as heretofore; but if, like the Scottish wild cattle, I am vexed by frequent pursuit, I may turn on him in ...

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...s on the threshold—the tall old threshold surmounted by coronets and caned heraldry. 485 Thackeray The absent lord’s children meanwhile prattled and ... ...e had read it in one of her favourite novel-books—Fatherless Fanny, or the Scottish Chiefs. “Suppose you were to run on and tell her,” the Major said....

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...f England; and the race that has conquered so wide an empire has not yet managed to assimilate the islands whence she sprang. Ireland, Wales, and the Scottish mountains still cling, in part, to their old Gaelic speech. It was but the other day that English triumphed in Cornwall, and they still show in Mousehole, on St. Michael?s Bay, the house of the last Cornish-speaking ...

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...naged to assimilate the islands whence she sprang. Ireland, Wales, and the Scottish moun- tains still cling, in part, to their old Gaelic speech. It w... ...t. At last, to settle matters, I explained to him that I was a member of a Scottish legal body, and had stood the brunt of an examination in the very ... ...ival cat- echisms, the English tritely inquiring, “What is your name?” the Scottish striking at the very roots of life with, “What is the chief end of... ...arates him further from the bulk of his compatriots. At an earlier age the Scottish lad begins his greatly different experience of crowded class-rooms... ...y gradually growing in the child’s mind from story and from observation. A Scottish child hears much of shipwreck, outlying iron skerries, pitiless br... ...x, which was with him, like the calumet with the Red Indian, a part of the heraldry of peace; and at length, in the ripeness of time, we grew to be a ...

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...of his powerful mind were unhappily exercised on a subject so lim- ited as Scottish jurisprudence, on which he has composed an admirable work. He marr... ...that time to become ac- 7 Sir Walter Scott quainted with the history of a Scottish family above the lower rank; and strange things sometimes took pla... ... particularly shone in painting horses, that being a favourite sign in the Scottish villages; and, in tracing his progress, it is beautiful to observe... ...scales fell from his eyes on viewing the sketches of a contem- porary, the Scottish Teniers, as Wilkie has been deservedly styled. He threw down the b... ...end a douceur of one thousand pieces of gold to his own household; and the Scottish vicegerents, raised to power by the strength of their faction, fai... ...o poor a place, By too rash riding in a ground unknown! —Poem, in Nisbet’s Heraldry, vol. ii. WE HAVE ANTICIPATED the course of time to mention Buckla...

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...ated in the spring of 1646. And the brief explosions of insurrection or of Scottish invasion, which occurred on sub- sequent occasions, were all local... ...pon his daily livelihood would, by this chase after the armorial honors of heraldry, have made himself a butt for ridicule, such as no fortitude could... ...s as a surviving friend of Lord Essex, who was viewed as the martyr to his Scottish politics, there can be no doubt that Shakspeare had acquired the f... ...d brow” succeeding to another, until he comes to an eighth apparition of a Scottish king, “Who bears a glass Which shows him many more; and some he se... ...the level of the com- petition, but even Homer “with his tail on,” (as the Scottish Highlanders say of then chieftains when belted by their cer- emoni...

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...there? If ever Dr. Johnson said a true word, it was when he replied to the Scottish judge Burnett, so well known to the world as Lord Monboddo. The ju... ...tarry heavens from their earliest creation, as a prefiguration—as a silent heraldry of hope through one period, and as a her- aldry of gratitude throu... ... wells without their advice. We ourselves knew an amiable and accomplished Scottish family, who, at an estate called Belmadrothie, in memory of a simi... ... before the event a description of that tournament, on the marriage of the Scottish Queen with his eldest son, Francis II., which proved fatal to hims... ...ry.” The English quatrain must be familiar to every body:— “The boast of heraldry, the pomp of pow’r, And all that beauty, all that wealth e’er ... ...ewer or cess-pool to receive her impurities. Some time back I remem- ber a Scottish newspaper holding up the case as a newly dis- covered horror in th... ...upon our shore, once or so in the season. What amuses one besides, in this Scottish denunciation of the villany, is, that Scotland* of old, pursued th...

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...e couchant Or; the well- known cognizance of the house, blazed in gorgeous heraldry on a hundred banners, surmounting as many towers. The long lines o... ...uburn, the golden ringlet of beauty, the red lock from the forehead of the Scottish or the Northern soldier, the snowy tress of extreme old age, the f... ...vers in the rampart there were silken banners embroidered with wonder- ful heraldry; men-at-arms marched where now you shall only see a bank of moss o...

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...ds in Jesu’s side He would proclaim it far and wide, With trump and solemn heraldry, That they, who thus had wronged the dame, Were base as spotte... ...cian, blind and grey, (Whom stretching from my nurse’s arms I kissed,) His Scottish tunes and warlike marches play, By moonshine, on the balmy summ...

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...had better look to your sauce.” Couchant means squatting, you know. That’s heraldry! Well, that wasn’t bad sparring of Mel’ s. But, bless you! he was ... ...k in jesses. The Elburne arms are, Or, three falcons on a field, vert. How heraldry reminds me of poor Papa! the evenings we used to spend with him, w... ... odd ques- tion, whether baronets or knights ever were tradesmen: to which Scottish Jenny, entirely putting aside the shades of be- 164 Evan Harringt...

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...elf from pecuniary embarrassments were unavailing. At the king’s death his Scottish loyalty caused him to side with those who opposed the Parliament. ... ...med to us like your rough sugar-plums, of many colours, like those used in heraldry; some words gules (this means also jests and merry sayings), some ...