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The Bride of Lammermoor
The Bride of Lammermoor

Chapter XXXVI · Chapter 36

Chapter 36 of The Bride of Lammermoor is here in full — 118 sentences across 24 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.

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Whose mind’s so marbled, and his heart so hard, That would not, when this huge mishap was heard, To th utmost note of sorrow set their song, To see a gallant, with so great a grace, So suddenly unthought on, so o’erthrown, And so to perish, in so poor a place, By too rash riding in a ground unknown!
Poem, in Nisbet’s Heraldry, vol. ii.
We have anticipated the course of time to mention Bucklaw’s recovery and fate, that we might not interrupt the detail of events which succeeded the funeral of the unfortunate Lucy Ashton.
This melancholy ceremony was performed in the misty dawn of an autumnal morning, with such moderate attendance and ceremony as could not possibly be dispensed with.
A very few of the nearest relations attended her body to the same churchyard to which she had so lately been led as a bride, with as little free will, perhaps, as could be now testified by her lifeless and passive remains.
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The Bride of Lammermoor

Chapter XXXVI · Chapter 36

Chapter 36 of The Bride of Lammermoor is here in full — 118 sentences across 24 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.

Reading 1/23 · 5 reading units · Lines 1–5

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Whose mind’s so marbled, and his heart so hard, That would not, when this huge mishap was heard, To thutmost note of sorrow set their song, To see a gallant, with so great a grace, So suddenly unthought on, so o’erthrown, And so to perish, in so poor a place, By too rash riding in a ground unknown!
Line 2
Poem, in Nisbet’s Heraldry, vol. ii.
Line 3
We have anticipated the course of time to mention Bucklaw’s recovery and fate, that we might not interrupt the detail of events which succeeded the funeral of the unfortunate Lucy Ashton.
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This melancholy ceremony was performed in the misty dawn of an autumnal morning, with such moderate attendance and ceremony as could not possibly be dispensed with.
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A very few of the nearest relations attended her body to the same churchyard to which she had so lately been led as a bride, with as little free will, perhaps, as could be now testified by her lifeless and passive remains.

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Same adjective US /seɪm/

Identical; not different.

From this reading “A very few of the nearest relations attended her body to the same churchyard to which she had so lately been led as a bride, with as little free will, perhaps, as could be now testified by her lifeless and passive remains.”

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a

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From this reading Whose mind’s so marbled, and his heart so hard, That would not, when this huge mishap was heard, To th’ utmost note of sorrow set their song, To see a gallant, with so great a grace, So suddenly unthought on, so o’erthrown, And so to perish, in so poor a place, By too rash riding in a ground unknown!

an

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From this reading This melancholy ceremony was performed in the misty dawn of an autumnal morning, with such moderate attendance and ceremony as could not possibly be dispensed with.

and

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From this reading Whose mind’s so marbled, and his heart so hard, That would not, when this huge mishap was heard, To th’ utmost note of sorrow set their song, To see a gallant, with so great a grace, So suddenly unthought on, so o’erthrown, And so to perish, in so poor a place, By too rash riding in a ground unknown!

anticipated

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From this reading We have anticipated the course of time to mention Bucklaw’s recovery and fate, that we might not interrupt the detail of events which succeeded the funeral of the unfortunate Lucy Ashton.

as

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From this reading This melancholy ceremony was performed in the misty dawn of an autumnal morning, with such moderate attendance and ceremony as could not possibly be dispensed with.

Ashton

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From this reading We have anticipated the course of time to mention Bucklaw’s recovery and fate, that we might not interrupt the detail of events which succeeded the funeral of the unfortunate Lucy Ashton.

attendance

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From this reading This melancholy ceremony was performed in the misty dawn of an autumnal morning, with such moderate attendance and ceremony as could not possibly be dispensed with.

attended

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From this reading A very few of the nearest relations attended her body to the same churchyard to which she had so lately been led as a bride, with as little free will, perhaps, as could be now testified by her lifeless and passive remains.

autumnal

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From this reading This melancholy ceremony was performed in the misty dawn of an autumnal morning, with such moderate attendance and ceremony as could not possibly be dispensed with.

be

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From this reading This melancholy ceremony was performed in the misty dawn of an autumnal morning, with such moderate attendance and ceremony as could not possibly be dispensed with.

been

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From this reading A very few of the nearest relations attended her body to the same churchyard to which she had so lately been led as a bride, with as little free will, perhaps, as could be now testified by her lifeless and passive remains.

body

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From this reading A very few of the nearest relations attended her body to the same churchyard to which she had so lately been led as a bride, with as little free will, perhaps, as could be now testified by her lifeless and passive remains.

bride

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From this reading A very few of the nearest relations attended her body to the same churchyard to which she had so lately been led as a bride, with as little free will, perhaps, as could be now testified by her lifeless and passive remains.

Bucklaw's

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From this reading We have anticipated the course of time to mention Bucklaw’s recovery and fate, that we might not interrupt the detail of events which succeeded the funeral of the unfortunate Lucy Ashton.

By

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From this reading Whose mind’s so marbled, and his heart so hard, That would not, when this huge mishap was heard, To th’ utmost note of sorrow set their song, To see a gallant, with so great a grace, So suddenly unthought on, so o’erthrown, And so to perish, in so poor a place, By too rash riding in a ground unknown!

ceremony

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From this reading This melancholy ceremony was performed in the misty dawn of an autumnal morning, with such moderate attendance and ceremony as could not possibly be dispensed with.

churchyard

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From this reading A very few of the nearest relations attended her body to the same churchyard to which she had so lately been led as a bride, with as little free will, perhaps, as could be now testified by her lifeless and passive remains.

could

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From this reading This melancholy ceremony was performed in the misty dawn of an autumnal morning, with such moderate attendance and ceremony as could not possibly be dispensed with.

course

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From this reading We have anticipated the course of time to mention Bucklaw’s recovery and fate, that we might not interrupt the detail of events which succeeded the funeral of the unfortunate Lucy Ashton.

dawn

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From this reading This melancholy ceremony was performed in the misty dawn of an autumnal morning, with such moderate attendance and ceremony as could not possibly be dispensed with.

detail

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From this reading We have anticipated the course of time to mention Bucklaw’s recovery and fate, that we might not interrupt the detail of events which succeeded the funeral of the unfortunate Lucy Ashton.

dispensed

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From this reading This melancholy ceremony was performed in the misty dawn of an autumnal morning, with such moderate attendance and ceremony as could not possibly be dispensed with.

events

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From this reading We have anticipated the course of time to mention Bucklaw’s recovery and fate, that we might not interrupt the detail of events which succeeded the funeral of the unfortunate Lucy Ashton.

fate

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From this reading We have anticipated the course of time to mention Bucklaw’s recovery and fate, that we might not interrupt the detail of events which succeeded the funeral of the unfortunate Lucy Ashton.

few

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From this reading A very few of the nearest relations attended her body to the same churchyard to which she had so lately been led as a bride, with as little free will, perhaps, as could be now testified by her lifeless and passive remains.

free

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From this reading A very few of the nearest relations attended her body to the same churchyard to which she had so lately been led as a bride, with as little free will, perhaps, as could be now testified by her lifeless and passive remains.

funeral

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From this reading We have anticipated the course of time to mention Bucklaw’s recovery and fate, that we might not interrupt the detail of events which succeeded the funeral of the unfortunate Lucy Ashton.

gallant

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From this reading Whose mind’s so marbled, and his heart so hard, That would not, when this huge mishap was heard, To th’ utmost note of sorrow set their song, To see a gallant, with so great a grace, So suddenly unthought on, so o’erthrown, And so to perish, in so poor a place, By too rash riding in a ground unknown!

grace

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From this reading Whose mind’s so marbled, and his heart so hard, That would not, when this huge mishap was heard, To th’ utmost note of sorrow set their song, To see a gallant, with so great a grace, So suddenly unthought on, so o’erthrown, And so to perish, in so poor a place, By too rash riding in a ground unknown!

great

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From this reading Whose mind’s so marbled, and his heart so hard, That would not, when this huge mishap was heard, To th’ utmost note of sorrow set their song, To see a gallant, with so great a grace, So suddenly unthought on, so o’erthrown, And so to perish, in so poor a place, By too rash riding in a ground unknown!

ground

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From this reading Whose mind’s so marbled, and his heart so hard, That would not, when this huge mishap was heard, To th’ utmost note of sorrow set their song, To see a gallant, with so great a grace, So suddenly unthought on, so o’erthrown, And so to perish, in so poor a place, By too rash riding in a ground unknown!

had

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From this reading A very few of the nearest relations attended her body to the same churchyard to which she had so lately been led as a bride, with as little free will, perhaps, as could be now testified by her lifeless and passive remains.

hard

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From this reading Whose mind’s so marbled, and his heart so hard, That would not, when this huge mishap was heard, To th’ utmost note of sorrow set their song, To see a gallant, with so great a grace, So suddenly unthought on, so o’erthrown, And so to perish, in so poor a place, By too rash riding in a ground unknown!

have

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From this reading We have anticipated the course of time to mention Bucklaw’s recovery and fate, that we might not interrupt the detail of events which succeeded the funeral of the unfortunate Lucy Ashton.

heard

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From this reading Whose mind’s so marbled, and his heart so hard, That would not, when this huge mishap was heard, To th’ utmost note of sorrow set their song, To see a gallant, with so great a grace, So suddenly unthought on, so o’erthrown, And so to perish, in so poor a place, By too rash riding in a ground unknown!

heart

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From this reading Whose mind’s so marbled, and his heart so hard, That would not, when this huge mishap was heard, To th’ utmost note of sorrow set their song, To see a gallant, with so great a grace, So suddenly unthought on, so o’erthrown, And so to perish, in so poor a place, By too rash riding in a ground unknown!

her

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From this reading A very few of the nearest relations attended her body to the same churchyard to which she had so lately been led as a bride, with as little free will, perhaps, as could be now testified by her lifeless and passive remains.

Heraldry

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From this reading Poem, in Nisbet’s Heraldry, vol. ii.

his

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From this reading Whose mind’s so marbled, and his heart so hard, That would not, when this huge mishap was heard, To th’ utmost note of sorrow set their song, To see a gallant, with so great a grace, So suddenly unthought on, so o’erthrown, And so to perish, in so poor a place, By too rash riding in a ground unknown!

huge

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From this reading Whose mind’s so marbled, and his heart so hard, That would not, when this huge mishap was heard, To th’ utmost note of sorrow set their song, To see a gallant, with so great a grace, So suddenly unthought on, so o’erthrown, And so to perish, in so poor a place, By too rash riding in a ground unknown!

ii

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From this reading Poem, in Nisbet’s Heraldry, vol. ii.

in

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From this reading Whose mind’s so marbled, and his heart so hard, That would not, when this huge mishap was heard, To th’ utmost note of sorrow set their song, To see a gallant, with so great a grace, So suddenly unthought on, so o’erthrown, And so to perish, in so poor a place, By too rash riding in a ground unknown!

interrupt

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From this reading We have anticipated the course of time to mention Bucklaw’s recovery and fate, that we might not interrupt the detail of events which succeeded the funeral of the unfortunate Lucy Ashton.

lately

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From this reading A very few of the nearest relations attended her body to the same churchyard to which she had so lately been led as a bride, with as little free will, perhaps, as could be now testified by her lifeless and passive remains.

led

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From this reading A very few of the nearest relations attended her body to the same churchyard to which she had so lately been led as a bride, with as little free will, perhaps, as could be now testified by her lifeless and passive remains.

lifeless

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From this reading A very few of the nearest relations attended her body to the same churchyard to which she had so lately been led as a bride, with as little free will, perhaps, as could be now testified by her lifeless and passive remains.

little

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From this reading A very few of the nearest relations attended her body to the same churchyard to which she had so lately been led as a bride, with as little free will, perhaps, as could be now testified by her lifeless and passive remains.

Lucy

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From this reading We have anticipated the course of time to mention Bucklaw’s recovery and fate, that we might not interrupt the detail of events which succeeded the funeral of the unfortunate Lucy Ashton.

marbled

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From this reading Whose mind’s so marbled, and his heart so hard, That would not, when this huge mishap was heard, To th’ utmost note of sorrow set their song, To see a gallant, with so great a grace, So suddenly unthought on, so o’erthrown, And so to perish, in so poor a place, By too rash riding in a ground unknown!

melancholy

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From this reading This melancholy ceremony was performed in the misty dawn of an autumnal morning, with such moderate attendance and ceremony as could not possibly be dispensed with.

mention

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From this reading We have anticipated the course of time to mention Bucklaw’s recovery and fate, that we might not interrupt the detail of events which succeeded the funeral of the unfortunate Lucy Ashton.

might

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From this reading We have anticipated the course of time to mention Bucklaw’s recovery and fate, that we might not interrupt the detail of events which succeeded the funeral of the unfortunate Lucy Ashton.

mind's

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From this reading Whose mind’s so marbled, and his heart so hard, That would not, when this huge mishap was heard, To th’ utmost note of sorrow set their song, To see a gallant, with so great a grace, So suddenly unthought on, so o’erthrown, And so to perish, in so poor a place, By too rash riding in a ground unknown!

mishap

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From this reading Whose mind’s so marbled, and his heart so hard, That would not, when this huge mishap was heard, To th’ utmost note of sorrow set their song, To see a gallant, with so great a grace, So suddenly unthought on, so o’erthrown, And so to perish, in so poor a place, By too rash riding in a ground unknown!

misty

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From this reading This melancholy ceremony was performed in the misty dawn of an autumnal morning, with such moderate attendance and ceremony as could not possibly be dispensed with.

moderate

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From this reading This melancholy ceremony was performed in the misty dawn of an autumnal morning, with such moderate attendance and ceremony as could not possibly be dispensed with.

morning

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From this reading This melancholy ceremony was performed in the misty dawn of an autumnal morning, with such moderate attendance and ceremony as could not possibly be dispensed with.

nearest

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From this reading A very few of the nearest relations attended her body to the same churchyard to which she had so lately been led as a bride, with as little free will, perhaps, as could be now testified by her lifeless and passive remains.

Nisbet's

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From this reading Poem, in Nisbet’s Heraldry, vol. ii.

not

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From this reading Whose mind’s so marbled, and his heart so hard, That would not, when this huge mishap was heard, To th’ utmost note of sorrow set their song, To see a gallant, with so great a grace, So suddenly unthought on, so o’erthrown, And so to perish, in so poor a place, By too rash riding in a ground unknown!

note

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From this reading Whose mind’s so marbled, and his heart so hard, That would not, when this huge mishap was heard, To th’ utmost note of sorrow set their song, To see a gallant, with so great a grace, So suddenly unthought on, so o’erthrown, And so to perish, in so poor a place, By too rash riding in a ground unknown!

now

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From this reading A very few of the nearest relations attended her body to the same churchyard to which she had so lately been led as a bride, with as little free will, perhaps, as could be now testified by her lifeless and passive remains.

o'erthrown

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From this reading Whose mind’s so marbled, and his heart so hard, That would not, when this huge mishap was heard, To th’ utmost note of sorrow set their song, To see a gallant, with so great a grace, So suddenly unthought on, so o’erthrown, And so to perish, in so poor a place, By too rash riding in a ground unknown!

of

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From this reading Whose mind’s so marbled, and his heart so hard, That would not, when this huge mishap was heard, To th’ utmost note of sorrow set their song, To see a gallant, with so great a grace, So suddenly unthought on, so o’erthrown, And so to perish, in so poor a place, By too rash riding in a ground unknown!

on

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From this reading Whose mind’s so marbled, and his heart so hard, That would not, when this huge mishap was heard, To th’ utmost note of sorrow set their song, To see a gallant, with so great a grace, So suddenly unthought on, so o’erthrown, And so to perish, in so poor a place, By too rash riding in a ground unknown!

passive

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From this reading A very few of the nearest relations attended her body to the same churchyard to which she had so lately been led as a bride, with as little free will, perhaps, as could be now testified by her lifeless and passive remains.

performed

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From this reading This melancholy ceremony was performed in the misty dawn of an autumnal morning, with such moderate attendance and ceremony as could not possibly be dispensed with.

perhaps

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From this reading A very few of the nearest relations attended her body to the same churchyard to which she had so lately been led as a bride, with as little free will, perhaps, as could be now testified by her lifeless and passive remains.

perish

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From this reading Whose mind’s so marbled, and his heart so hard, That would not, when this huge mishap was heard, To th’ utmost note of sorrow set their song, To see a gallant, with so great a grace, So suddenly unthought on, so o’erthrown, And so to perish, in so poor a place, By too rash riding in a ground unknown!

place

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From this reading Whose mind’s so marbled, and his heart so hard, That would not, when this huge mishap was heard, To th’ utmost note of sorrow set their song, To see a gallant, with so great a grace, So suddenly unthought on, so o’erthrown, And so to perish, in so poor a place, By too rash riding in a ground unknown!

Poem

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From this reading Poem, in Nisbet’s Heraldry, vol. ii.

poor

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From this reading Whose mind’s so marbled, and his heart so hard, That would not, when this huge mishap was heard, To th’ utmost note of sorrow set their song, To see a gallant, with so great a grace, So suddenly unthought on, so o’erthrown, And so to perish, in so poor a place, By too rash riding in a ground unknown!

possibly

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From this reading This melancholy ceremony was performed in the misty dawn of an autumnal morning, with such moderate attendance and ceremony as could not possibly be dispensed with.

rash

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From this reading Whose mind’s so marbled, and his heart so hard, That would not, when this huge mishap was heard, To th’ utmost note of sorrow set their song, To see a gallant, with so great a grace, So suddenly unthought on, so o’erthrown, And so to perish, in so poor a place, By too rash riding in a ground unknown!

recovery

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From this reading We have anticipated the course of time to mention Bucklaw’s recovery and fate, that we might not interrupt the detail of events which succeeded the funeral of the unfortunate Lucy Ashton.

relations

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From this reading A very few of the nearest relations attended her body to the same churchyard to which she had so lately been led as a bride, with as little free will, perhaps, as could be now testified by her lifeless and passive remains.

remains

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From this reading A very few of the nearest relations attended her body to the same churchyard to which she had so lately been led as a bride, with as little free will, perhaps, as could be now testified by her lifeless and passive remains.

riding

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From this reading Whose mind’s so marbled, and his heart so hard, That would not, when this huge mishap was heard, To th’ utmost note of sorrow set their song, To see a gallant, with so great a grace, So suddenly unthought on, so o’erthrown, And so to perish, in so poor a place, By too rash riding in a ground unknown!

sameadjectiveUS /seɪm/

Identical; not different.

From this reading A very few of the nearest relations attended her body to the same churchyard to which she had so lately been led as a bride, with as little free will, perhaps, as could be now testified by her lifeless and passive remains.

see

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From this reading Whose mind’s so marbled, and his heart so hard, That would not, when this huge mishap was heard, To th’ utmost note of sorrow set their song, To see a gallant, with so great a grace, So suddenly unthought on, so o’erthrown, And so to perish, in so poor a place, By too rash riding in a ground unknown!

set

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From this reading Whose mind’s so marbled, and his heart so hard, That would not, when this huge mishap was heard, To th’ utmost note of sorrow set their song, To see a gallant, with so great a grace, So suddenly unthought on, so o’erthrown, And so to perish, in so poor a place, By too rash riding in a ground unknown!

she

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From this reading A very few of the nearest relations attended her body to the same churchyard to which she had so lately been led as a bride, with as little free will, perhaps, as could be now testified by her lifeless and passive remains.

so

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From this reading Whose mind’s so marbled, and his heart so hard, That would not, when this huge mishap was heard, To th’ utmost note of sorrow set their song, To see a gallant, with so great a grace, So suddenly unthought on, so o’erthrown, And so to perish, in so poor a place, By too rash riding in a ground unknown!

song

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From this reading Whose mind’s so marbled, and his heart so hard, That would not, when this huge mishap was heard, To th’ utmost note of sorrow set their song, To see a gallant, with so great a grace, So suddenly unthought on, so o’erthrown, And so to perish, in so poor a place, By too rash riding in a ground unknown!

sorrow

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From this reading Whose mind’s so marbled, and his heart so hard, That would not, when this huge mishap was heard, To th’ utmost note of sorrow set their song, To see a gallant, with so great a grace, So suddenly unthought on, so o’erthrown, And so to perish, in so poor a place, By too rash riding in a ground unknown!

succeeded

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From this reading We have anticipated the course of time to mention Bucklaw’s recovery and fate, that we might not interrupt the detail of events which succeeded the funeral of the unfortunate Lucy Ashton.

such

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From this reading This melancholy ceremony was performed in the misty dawn of an autumnal morning, with such moderate attendance and ceremony as could not possibly be dispensed with.

suddenly

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From this reading Whose mind’s so marbled, and his heart so hard, That would not, when this huge mishap was heard, To th’ utmost note of sorrow set their song, To see a gallant, with so great a grace, So suddenly unthought on, so o’erthrown, And so to perish, in so poor a place, By too rash riding in a ground unknown!

testified

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From this reading A very few of the nearest relations attended her body to the same churchyard to which she had so lately been led as a bride, with as little free will, perhaps, as could be now testified by her lifeless and passive remains.

th

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From this reading Whose mind’s so marbled, and his heart so hard, That would not, when this huge mishap was heard, To th’ utmost note of sorrow set their song, To see a gallant, with so great a grace, So suddenly unthought on, so o’erthrown, And so to perish, in so poor a place, By too rash riding in a ground unknown!

That

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From this reading Whose mind’s so marbled, and his heart so hard, That would not, when this huge mishap was heard, To th’ utmost note of sorrow set their song, To see a gallant, with so great a grace, So suddenly unthought on, so o’erthrown, And so to perish, in so poor a place, By too rash riding in a ground unknown!

the

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From this reading We have anticipated the course of time to mention Bucklaw’s recovery and fate, that we might not interrupt the detail of events which succeeded the funeral of the unfortunate Lucy Ashton.

their

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From this reading Whose mind’s so marbled, and his heart so hard, That would not, when this huge mishap was heard, To th’ utmost note of sorrow set their song, To see a gallant, with so great a grace, So suddenly unthought on, so o’erthrown, And so to perish, in so poor a place, By too rash riding in a ground unknown!

this

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From this reading Whose mind’s so marbled, and his heart so hard, That would not, when this huge mishap was heard, To th’ utmost note of sorrow set their song, To see a gallant, with so great a grace, So suddenly unthought on, so o’erthrown, And so to perish, in so poor a place, By too rash riding in a ground unknown!

time

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From this reading We have anticipated the course of time to mention Bucklaw’s recovery and fate, that we might not interrupt the detail of events which succeeded the funeral of the unfortunate Lucy Ashton.

To

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From this reading Whose mind’s so marbled, and his heart so hard, That would not, when this huge mishap was heard, To th’ utmost note of sorrow set their song, To see a gallant, with so great a grace, So suddenly unthought on, so o’erthrown, And so to perish, in so poor a place, By too rash riding in a ground unknown!

too

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From this reading Whose mind’s so marbled, and his heart so hard, That would not, when this huge mishap was heard, To th’ utmost note of sorrow set their song, To see a gallant, with so great a grace, So suddenly unthought on, so o’erthrown, And so to perish, in so poor a place, By too rash riding in a ground unknown!

unfortunate

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From this reading We have anticipated the course of time to mention Bucklaw’s recovery and fate, that we might not interrupt the detail of events which succeeded the funeral of the unfortunate Lucy Ashton.

unknown

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From this reading Whose mind’s so marbled, and his heart so hard, That would not, when this huge mishap was heard, To th’ utmost note of sorrow set their song, To see a gallant, with so great a grace, So suddenly unthought on, so o’erthrown, And so to perish, in so poor a place, By too rash riding in a ground unknown!

unthought

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From this reading Whose mind’s so marbled, and his heart so hard, That would not, when this huge mishap was heard, To th’ utmost note of sorrow set their song, To see a gallant, with so great a grace, So suddenly unthought on, so o’erthrown, And so to perish, in so poor a place, By too rash riding in a ground unknown!

utmost

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From this reading Whose mind’s so marbled, and his heart so hard, That would not, when this huge mishap was heard, To th’ utmost note of sorrow set their song, To see a gallant, with so great a grace, So suddenly unthought on, so o’erthrown, And so to perish, in so poor a place, By too rash riding in a ground unknown!

very

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From this reading A very few of the nearest relations attended her body to the same churchyard to which she had so lately been led as a bride, with as little free will, perhaps, as could be now testified by her lifeless and passive remains.

vol

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From this reading Poem, in Nisbet’s Heraldry, vol. ii.

was

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From this reading Whose mind’s so marbled, and his heart so hard, That would not, when this huge mishap was heard, To th’ utmost note of sorrow set their song, To see a gallant, with so great a grace, So suddenly unthought on, so o’erthrown, And so to perish, in so poor a place, By too rash riding in a ground unknown!

We

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From this reading We have anticipated the course of time to mention Bucklaw’s recovery and fate, that we might not interrupt the detail of events which succeeded the funeral of the unfortunate Lucy Ashton.

when

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From this reading Whose mind’s so marbled, and his heart so hard, That would not, when this huge mishap was heard, To th’ utmost note of sorrow set their song, To see a gallant, with so great a grace, So suddenly unthought on, so o’erthrown, And so to perish, in so poor a place, By too rash riding in a ground unknown!

which

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From this reading We have anticipated the course of time to mention Bucklaw’s recovery and fate, that we might not interrupt the detail of events which succeeded the funeral of the unfortunate Lucy Ashton.

Whose

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From this reading Whose mind’s so marbled, and his heart so hard, That would not, when this huge mishap was heard, To th’ utmost note of sorrow set their song, To see a gallant, with so great a grace, So suddenly unthought on, so o’erthrown, And so to perish, in so poor a place, By too rash riding in a ground unknown!

will

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From this reading A very few of the nearest relations attended her body to the same churchyard to which she had so lately been led as a bride, with as little free will, perhaps, as could be now testified by her lifeless and passive remains.

with

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From this reading Whose mind’s so marbled, and his heart so hard, That would not, when this huge mishap was heard, To th’ utmost note of sorrow set their song, To see a gallant, with so great a grace, So suddenly unthought on, so o’erthrown, And so to perish, in so poor a place, By too rash riding in a ground unknown!

would

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From this reading Whose mind’s so marbled, and his heart so hard, That would not, when this huge mishap was heard, To th’ utmost note of sorrow set their song, To see a gallant, with so great a grace, So suddenly unthought on, so o’erthrown, And so to perish, in so poor a place, By too rash riding in a ground unknown!

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