The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL. D.Routledge, Warne, and Routledge, 1860 - 360 oldal |
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... Land's - End to the Hebrides . Fragments of his conversation , including some of his weighty and pungent remarks , his witty sarcasms and lively personal sallies , had got abroad , and public curiosity was strongly excited regarding the ...
... Land's - End to the Hebrides . Fragments of his conversation , including some of his weighty and pungent remarks , his witty sarcasms and lively personal sallies , had got abroad , and public curiosity was strongly excited regarding the ...
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... land - or the sounds and bays , and boating excursions along the rocky coasts — or the princely reception that awaited the travellers at the island courts of Rasay and Dunve gan - possess all the interest and novelty of romantic ...
... land - or the sounds and bays , and boating excursions along the rocky coasts — or the princely reception that awaited the travellers at the island courts of Rasay and Dunve gan - possess all the interest and novelty of romantic ...
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... land . The affair of the Forty - five was the primary cause of the pecuniary burdens which long encumbered and ultimately overwhelmed the Macleod and many other Highland properties . The system of agriculture then pursued in the ...
... land . The affair of the Forty - five was the primary cause of the pecuniary burdens which long encumbered and ultimately overwhelmed the Macleod and many other Highland properties . The system of agriculture then pursued in the ...
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... lands , as the proprietor found he could obtain a greater amount of rent and secure more authority as a landlord when the people held directly under himself . The tacksmen had thus to descend to the condition of ordinary farmers . They ...
... lands , as the proprietor found he could obtain a greater amount of rent and secure more authority as a landlord when the people held directly under himself . The tacksmen had thus to descend to the condition of ordinary farmers . They ...
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... land in Glengarry as a summer sheiling or grazing for their cattle , for which they paid only £ 15 of annual rent . The ground was examined by a sagacious sheep - farmer from the dales in the south . He offered no less than £ 350 of ...
... land in Glengarry as a summer sheiling or grazing for their cattle , for which they paid only £ 15 of annual rent . The ground was examined by a sagacious sheep - farmer from the dales in the south . He offered no less than £ 350 of ...
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The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides With Samuel Johnson, LL.D. James Boswell Korlátozott előnézet - 1780 |
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Aberdeen afterwards Allan Maclean ancient appearance asked believe better boat Boswell Boswell's breakfast called castle chief church clan conversation Corrichatachin daughter died dinner Donald Duke Dunvegan Edinburgh England English entertained Erse father Flora Macdonald Fort Augustus Garrick gave gentleman give Grugach Hebrides Highland honour horses humour Inchkenneth Inverness island Isle James JAMES BOSWELL John Johnson Journey King Kingsburgh Lady laird land Lawrence Kirk learned lived London looked Lord Lord Monboddo Macaulay Mackenzie Mackinnon Maclean Macleod Macqueen Malcolm mentioned miles mind minister Monboddo morning Mull never night observed pleased Portree pretty Prince Charles Principal Robertson Rasay remarked Samuel Johnson Scotland Scottish seemed servant shore Sir Alexander Sir Allan Skye spirit Talisker talked tell things thought Thrale tion Tobermorie told took walked write young
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216. oldal - Live while you live, the Epicure would say, And seize the pleasures of the present day. Live while you live, the sacred Preacher cries, And give to God each moment as it flies.
174. oldal - Twas thine own genius gave the final blow, And helped to plant the wound that laid thee low : So the struck eagle, stretched upon the plain, No more through rolling clouds to soar again, Viewed his own feather on the fatal dart, And winged the shaft that quivered in his heart ; Keen were his pangs, but keener far to feel He nursed the pinion which impelled the steel ; While the same plumage that had warmed his nest Drank the last life-drop of his bleeding breast.
251. oldal - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses, whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future, predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me, and from my friends, be such frigid philosophy as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved over any ground which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the...
5. oldal - He had a constitutional melancholy the clouds of which darkened the brightness of his fancy and gave a gloomy cast to his whole course of thinking...
94. oldal - The raven himself is hoarse That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan Under my battlements. Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full Of direst cruelty ! make thick my blood ; Stop up...
19. oldal - Partridge, with a contemptuous sneer; "why, I could act as well as he myself. I am sure if I had seen a ghost I should have looked in the very same manner, and done just as he did.
4. oldal - In him were united a most logical head with a most fertile imagination, which gave him an extraordinary advantage in arguing: for he could reason close or wide, as he saw best for the moment.
19. oldal - He told us of Cooke, who translated Hesiod, and lived twenty years on a translation of Plautus, for which he was always taking subscriptions; and that he presented Foote to a Club, in the following singular manner: 'This is the nephew of the gentleman who was lately hung in chains for murdering his brother.
58. oldal - Three poets in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn; The first in loftiness of thought surpassed, The next in majesty; in both the last. The force of Nature could no further go, To make a third she joined the former two.
105. oldal - How many thousand of my poorest subjects Are at this hour asleep ! O Sleep, O gentle Sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down. And steep my senses in forgetfulness...