 | Stuart Curran - 1990 - 280 sider
...which it still centers on a major one. However entertaining fiction may be, it is nonetheless not fact: "I cannot tell how the truth may be; / I say the tale as 't was said to me" (1I.262-263), observes the Last Minstrel. Though Scott is the progenitor of historical... | |
 | David Dary - 1987 - 296 sider
...business was much better than that of many Texas cattlemen. Part II BURIED TREASURE ON THE PLAINS / cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as 'twas said to me. — Sir Walter Scott The Lay of the Last Minstrel Outlaw's Treasure in Cowley County The name Bill... | |
 | James Russell Kincaid - 1998 - 372 sider
...moments, those I love best as I loved him beyond any best. Erotic Innocence Introduction I cannot say how truth may be; I say the tale as 'twas said to me. —Sir Walter Scott, "The Lay of the Last Minstrel" There are, and have been, many stories in the culture... | |
 | Michael A. Morrison - 1999 - 416 sider
...myths . . . not the embodiment of them. Neither is it the destruction of myths. — C. Vann Woodward I cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as 'twas said to me. — Sir Walter Scott On October 13, 1859, three days before John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry, a worried... | |
 | James Watt - 1999 - 222 sider
...Marvellous', since he - rather than Scott - is the medium for the oral tradition on which the work is based: 'I cannot tell how the truth may be; / I say the tale as 'twas told to me.' 8 Whereas Lewis had stated simply that 'a Ghost or a Witch' was 'a sine-qua-non ingredient... | |
 | Jack V. Haney - 1999 - 148 sider
...to believe that the tradition will totally die. o III o PRIESTS, SKOMOROKHS, AND TELLERS OF TALES / cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as 'twas told to me. — Sir Walter Scott, The Lay of the Last Minstrel The early tellers of tales in Muscovite... | |
 | Richard Alan Krieger - 2007 - 344 sider
...lapse of time: or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters." — George Eliot Stories "I cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as it was said to me." — Sir Walter Scott "There is much good sleep in an old story." — German proverb... | |
 | Ajoy Ghatak, S. Lokanathan - 2004 - 936 sider
...Quantum Mechanics: Theory and Applications fljoy Ghatak and S. Lokanathan Kluwer Academic Publishers / cannot tell how the truth may be I say the tale as it was said to me — Sir Walter Scott An International Book Series on The Fundamental Theories of... | |
 | Michael Barnes - 2006 - 190 sider
...institutions. ..Here every man is the son of his own works. " THOMAS D'ARCY MCGEE A MILD DISCLAIMER I cannot tell how the truth may be: I say the tale as it was told to me. SIR WALTER SCOTT The Lay of the Last Minstrel CONTENTS Author's Note vi Long Lead... | |
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Tis said, as through the aisles they passed, They heard strange noises on the blast ; And through the cloister-galleries small, Which at mid-height thread the chancel wall, Loud sobs, and laughter louder ran, And voices unlike the voice of man ; As if... 
