Beauties of Sir Walter Scott

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BEAUTIES

OF

SIR WALTER SCOTT, BART.

Part I. The Preparation, . . . . 1

II. The Conflict. ....

Percy and Douglas. — Battle of Otterburn,

Apparition to King Janies IV. before the Battle of Flodden,

Battle of Flodden, ......

The Saxon and the Gael, —

Part I. The Interview, .....

II. The Combat, ....

Trial and Execution of Mary Queen of Scots, . .

Trial and Execution of King Charles I., ...

Tragical Marriage in a Scottish Family,

The Massacre of Glencoe, .....

Witchcraft — Anecdotes of, in Scotland,

Abolition of Trials for, and Cessation of Witchcraft, .

First Attempt to introduce the Episcopal Church Service in

Scotland, ......

Union of England with Scotland, ....

The Porteous Mob, ......

Summons of the Fiery Cross, ....

Entrance of Prince Charles Stuart and the Highland Army into Edinburgh, '.....

Battle of Culloden, ......

Character and Results of the Rebellion 1745-6, .

Extinction of the Royal House of Stuart, . . .

Landing of the British Army in Portugal, .

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The Burning of Moscow, ....

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The Field of Borodino, ....

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Passage of the Beresina, ....

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Battle of Waterloo, .....

Death of Napoleon, . . .

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Meeting of Sir Walter Scott and Robert Burns,

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Sir Walter Scott and Lord Byron,

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Narrow Escape of a Revenue Officer,

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Fate of a Village Aspirant in Art, —

Part I. The Village,

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II. The City, ....

Historical Anecdotes of Scottish Palaces and Castles, —

1. Edinburgh Castle, ....

2. Palace of Holyrood, .

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3. Linlithgow Palace,

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4. Crichton Castle, ....

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5. Dunbar Castle, ....

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Discovery of the Scottish Regalia,

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1EI. Ueacrlptibe ^pieces.

The Dead Sea, .....

The Field of Waterloo after the Battle,

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Moral Reflections on the Scene of the Battle,

A Highland Dinner in 1745, ....

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Christmas in Old Times, ....

Fingal’8 Cave in Staffs, . . ...

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Island of Iona, .....

A Smuggler Captain, .....

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The Pedestrian, .....

Changes in Scotland, .....

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The Trosachs — Loch Katrine, . •

The Cradle of Noss in Zetland,

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Maccallister’g Cave, Isle of Skye, . .

Cave in the Island of Egg, ....

Loch Coriskin, . . •

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Approach of Winter,

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Winter — The Shepherd, ....

The Palmer, ....

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Loch Skene, ......

The Village Surgeon, ....

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The Poacher, . .

View of Edinburgh from Blackford Hill,

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The Highlands of Scotland,

Letter in Verse from Zetland,

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Roslin Glen,

Hawthomden, ......

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Sketch of a Spa or Watering-place,

Macbeth, King of Scotland,

Sir David Lindesay, .

King James I. of England,

King Charles II., . .

Oliver Cromwell, ....

John Grahame of Claverhouse, Viscount Dundee, John Duke of Argyle, ....

Henry Fielding, . . . . ,

Tobias Smollet, ....

Dr Samuel Johnson, .

Oliver Goldsmith, ....

Pitt, Fox, and Nelson, .

Lord Byron, .....

Wellington and Byron,

James Watt, ....

Napoleon Bonaparte, —

1. Personal and Private Character,

2. Military Character, .

3. Political Character, .

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On the Interest Conferred by Time on Works of Art,

Analogies of Animal and Vegetable Life, .

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Moonlight Scenery,

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Evils of the Poetic Temperament, .

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Abuses of the Church of Rome, —

Part I. . .