Walter Scott
Waverley, Ivanhoe & Rob Roy
(Illustrated Edition)
The Heroes of the Scottish Highlands
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2017 OK Publishing
ISBN 978-80-272-0191-4
Table of Contents
IVANHOE
Chapter 1
Thus communed these; while to their lowly dome,
The full-fed swine return’d with evening home;
Compell’d, reluctant, to the several sties,
With din obstreperous, and ungrateful cries.
Pope’s Odyssey
In that pleasant district of merry England which is watered by the river Don, there extended in ancient times a large forest, covering the greater part of the beautiful hills and valleys which lie between Sheffield and the pleasant town of Doncaster. The remains of this extensive wood are still to be seen at the noble seats of Wentworth, of Warncliffe Park, and around Rotherham. Here haunted of yore the fabulous Dragon