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blast of that dread horn On Fontarabian echoes borne. All the heroes, then, have been poets, and Osbaldistone's youth may have been suggested by Scott's memories of his own, and of the father who "feared that he would never be better than a gangrel scrapegut." Like Henry Morton, in "Old Mortality," Frank Osbaldistone is on the political side taken by Scott's judgment, not by his emotions.
"O for the voice of that wild horn, On Fontarabian echoes borne, The dying hero's call, That told imperial Charlemagne, How Paynim sons of swarthy Spain Had wrought his champion's fall. "Fontarabian echoes!" continued my father, interrupting himself; "the Fontarabian Fair would have been more to the purpose Paynim! What's Paynim?
"O for the voice of that wild horn, On Fontarabian echoes borne, The dying hero's call, That told imperial Charlemagne, How Paynim sons of swarthy Spain Had wrought his champion's fall. "Fontarabian echoes!" continued my father, interrupting himself; "the Fontarabian Fair would have been more to the purpose Paynim! What's Paynim?
blast of that dread horn On Fontarabian echoes borne. All the heroes, then, have been poets, and Osbaldistone's youth may have been suggested by Scott's memories of his own, and of the father who "feared that he would never be better than a gangrel scrapegut." Like Henry Morton, in "Old Mortality," Frank Osbaldistone is on the political side taken by Scott's judgment, not by his emotions.
As soon as the daring little privateer had done her work she innocently steamed to Socoa; the Carlists on the hills waved adieu and disappeared; the French soldiers returned to their quarters; and the Fontarabian "volunteers of liberty " well, most probably they swore terribly, and effected a masterly retrograde movement on the nearest posada. I had a call to board the San Margarita.
"O, for a blast of that dread horn, On Fontarabian echoes borne That to King Charles did come, When Rowland brave, and Olivier, And every paladin and peer On Roncesvalles died!" Marmion. "When Charlemain with all his peerage fell, By Fontarabbia." Paradise Lost. "A Roland for an Oliver!"
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