Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 17
- Author: Wilson John Mackay
- Genre: Scotland
Product DescriptionThat, to gratify the revenge of the Regent Albany," replied the other, "my lord Home and your kinsman William have been betrayed and murdered. Calumny has blasted their honour. Twelve hours ago I beheld their heads tossed like footballs by the foot of the common executioner, and afterwards fixed over the porch of the Nether Bow, for the execration and indignities of the slaves of Albany. All day the blood of the Homes has dropped upon the pavement, where the mechanic and the clown pass over and tread on it.
Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume XXII
- Author: Wilson John Mackay
- Genre: Scotland
Old David Stuart was the picture of health--a personification ofcontentment. When I knew him, his years must have considerably exceededthreescore; but his good-natured face was as ruddy as health could makeit; his hair, though mingled with grey, was as thick and strong as if hehad been but twenty; his person was still muscular and active; and,moreover, he yet retained, in all their freshness, the feelings of hisyouth, and no small portion of the simplicity of his childhood. I lovedDavid, not only because he was a good man, but because there was a greatdeal of _character_ or _originality_ about him; and though his brow wascheerful, the clouds of sorrow had frequently rested upon it. More thanonce when seated by his parlour fire, and when he had finished his pipe,and his afternoon tumbler stood on the table beside him, I have heardhim give the following account of the ups and downs--the trials, thejoys, and sorrows--which he had encountered in his worldly pilgrimage;and, to preserve the interest of the history, I shall give it in David'sown idiom, and in his own words.
Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume XXIII
- Author: Wilson John Mackay
- Genre: Short Stories
John Mackay Wilson (1804-1835) was a Scottish writer famous for the six volume Tales of the Borders. He was born in Tweedmouth, on the border between Scotland and England. Towards the end of his life, he suffered from alcoholism. Two of his plays were The Gowrie Conspiracy (1829) and Margaret of Anjou. His other works include: Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland (1857-1859), Selections From Tales of the Borders and of Scotland (1885) and The Vacant Chair, and Other Tales (with others) (1892).
Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume XXIV.
- Author: Wilson John Mackay
- Genre: Scotland
CANTO FIRST.Come, sit thee by me, love, and thou shalt hearA tale may win a smile and claim a tear--A plain and simple story told in rhyme,As sang the minstrels of the olden time.No idle Muse I'll needlessly invoke--No patron's aid, to steer me from the rockOf cold neglect round which oblivion lies;But, loved one, I will look into thine eyes,From which young poesy first touched my soul,And bade the burning words in numbers roll;--They were the light in which I learned to sing;And still to thee will kindling fancy cling--Glow at thy smile, as when, in younger years,I've seen thee smiling through thy maiden tears,Like a fair floweret bent with morning dew,While sunbeams kissed its leaves of loveliest hue.Thou wert the chord and spirit of my lyre--Thy love the living voice that breathed--"aspire!"--That smoothed ambition's steep and toilsome height,And in its darkest paths was round me, light.Then, sit thee by me, love, and list the strain,Which, but for thee, had still neglected lain.
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