The picture of ScotlandWilliam Tait, 1827 |
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... circumstance that , though in some places nearly three hundred miles long and two hundred broad , there is only one spot throughout its whole circuit , upwards of forty miles from the sea . Of course , the irregularity of the littoral ...
... circumstance that , though in some places nearly three hundred miles long and two hundred broad , there is only one spot throughout its whole circuit , upwards of forty miles from the sea . Of course , the irregularity of the littoral ...
Σελίδα 16
... circumstance that , till a late happy era , England always acted the part of an over - powerful oppressor in regard ... circumstances been sufficient for the depression of North Britain , the infelicity of its independent government ...
... circumstance that , till a late happy era , England always acted the part of an over - powerful oppressor in regard ... circumstances been sufficient for the depression of North Britain , the infelicity of its independent government ...
Σελίδα 20
... circumstance which sufficiently proves that spot to be the highest land in Scotland south of the Forth . The source of the Tweed is fifteen hundred feet above the level of the sea ; and such is the comparatively mountainous character of ...
... circumstance which sufficiently proves that spot to be the highest land in Scotland south of the Forth . The source of the Tweed is fifteen hundred feet above the level of the sea ; and such is the comparatively mountainous character of ...
Σελίδα 23
... are not only good houses , but they are in general surrounded with not a little of the pomp and circumstance of patri- cian mansions . They are backed with trees and front- 24 MEN OF THE MERSE . ed with shrubberies ; Berwickshire .
... are not only good houses , but they are in general surrounded with not a little of the pomp and circumstance of patri- cian mansions . They are backed with trees and front- 24 MEN OF THE MERSE . ed with shrubberies ; Berwickshire .
Σελίδα 34
... circumstance of its having been used as the county jail , with its dark and dungeon - like appearance , suggested to a waggish stranger the following descriptive couplet : Here stand the Gospel and the Law , Wi ' Hell's hole atween the ...
... circumstance of its having been used as the county jail , with its dark and dungeon - like appearance , suggested to a waggish stranger the following descriptive couplet : Here stand the Gospel and the Law , Wi ' Hell's hole atween the ...
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Abbey ancient appearance Ayrshire bank beautiful Berwick bridge built burgh Burns called Castle celebrated century character church church-yard Clyde cross curious district Drumelzier Dumfries Dumfriesshire Dunse Earl Earlstoun edifice Edinburgh eminence erected Ettrick formed former formerly fortress Galashiels Galloway Glasgow ground haugh Hawick Hermitage Hermitage Castle hills inhabitants James James Blaikie Jedburgh king Kirkcudbright lady laird Lammermuir land Langholm Lauderdale Liddisdale Loch Lochmaben Lord Melrose MELROSE ABBEY Merse miles mountain Neidpath Castle neighbourhood neighbouring object occasion once parish Peebles Peeblesshire Polwarth possesses present remarkable residence Rhymer river road Roxburghshire royal burgh ruins scene scenery Scot Scotland Scottish seat seems seen Selkirk Selkirkshire side singular situated Solway spot St Mary's Loch stone stream street THOMAS THE RHYMER tion tower town Town-heid tradition trees Tweed vale village whole wild wood worthy Yarrow
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Σελίδα 122 - When the cold light's uncertain shower Streams on the ruined central tower; When buttress and buttress, alternately, Seem framed of ebon and ivory ; When silver edges the imagery, And the scrolls that teach thee to live and die ; When distant Tweed is heard to rave, And the owlet to hoot o'er the dead man's grave, Then go— but go alone the while — Then view St. David's ruined pile ; And, home' returning, soothly swear, Was never scene so sad and fair ! II.
Σελίδα 158 - But thou, that didst appear so fair To fond imagination, Dost rival in the light of day Her delicate creation : Meek loveliness is round thee spread, A softness still and holy ; The grace of forest charms decayed, And pastoral melancholy.
Σελίδα 121 - If thou wouldst view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moonlight ; For the gay beams of lightsome day Gild, but to flout, the ruins gray. When the broken arches are black in night, And each shafted oriel glimmers white; When the cold light's uncertain shower Streams on the ruined central tower; When buttress and buttress, alternately, Seem framed of ebon and ivory...
Σελίδα 157 - O that some Minstrel's harp were near, To utter notes of gladness, And chase this silence from the air, That fills my heart with sadness...
Σελίδα 120 - Greece, but living Greece no more ! So coldly sweet, so deadly fair, We start, for soul is wanting there. Hers is the loveliness in death, That parts not quite with parting breath ; But beauty with that fearful bloom, That hue which haunts it to the tomb ; Expression's last receding ray, A gilded halo hovering round decay, The farewell beam of Feeling past away!
Σελίδα viii - I have no dearer aim than to have it in my power, unplagued with the routine of business, for which heaven knows I am unfit enough, to make leisurely pilgrimages through Caledonia ; to sit on the fields of her battles ; to wander on the romantic banks of her rivers ; and to muse by the stately towers or venerable ruins, once the honoured abodes of her heroes.
Σελίδα 159 - The sober hills thus deck their brows To meet the wintry season. I see — but not by sight alone, Loved Yarrow, have I won thee; A ray of Fancy still survives — Her sunshine plays upon thee...
Σελίδα 82 - SWEET TEVIOT ! on thy silver tide The glaring bale-fires blaze no more ; No longer steel-clad warriors ride Along thy wild and willowed shore ; Where'er thou wind'st, by dale or hill, All, all is peaceful, all is still, As if thy waves, since Time was born, Since first they rolled upon the Tweed, Had only heard the shepherd's reed, Nor started at the bugle-horn.
Σελίδα 122 - The moon on the east oriel shone, Through slender shafts of shapely stone, By foliaged tracery combined ; Thou would'st have thought some fairy's hand ' Twixt poplars straight the ozier wand, In many a freakish knot, had twined ; Then framed a spell, when the work was done, And changed the willow wreaths to stone.
Σελίδα 98 - Lylliard lies under this stane, Little was her stature, but great was her fame ; Upon the English louns she laid mony thumps, And when her legs were cutted off, she fought upon her stumps.