The Beauties of Scotland: Containing a Clear and Full Account of the Agriculture, Commerce, Mines, and Manufactures; of the Population, Cities, Towns, Villages, &c. of Each County ...Thomson Bonar and John Brown [and 7 others], 1805 - 547 oldal |
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abbey abounds acres Agricul agriculture Airshire ancient Annandale Antiquities appears banks beautiful Berwickshire border building built Burns called Carrick castle cattle chalybeate church Closeburn coal coast considerable Crichton crop dike distance district Dumfries Dumfriesshire Earl east Edinburgh England English erected expence farm farmers feet formerly free-stone Galloway grain grass ground height hill inches inhabitants Jedburgh Kelso King Kirkcudbright land Langholm late lime loch Lord lord of Galloway manufactures Maybole miles Minerals moss mountains neighbourhood neighbouring Nithsdale oats parish Peebles persons plants plough Population possessed proprietors quantity remains remarkable rises river river Annan river Nith river Tweed road rock Roxburghshire ruins Saltcoats Sanquhar Scotland Scots Scottish sheep shire side situated soil Solway Frith stands stewartry stewartry of Kirkcudbright stone thirlage tion tower town ture turnip Tweed village walls whole Wigton
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516. oldal - Perhaps the Christian volume is the theme: How guiltless blood for guilty man was shed; How He Who bore in Heaven the second name Had not on earth whereon to lay His head; How His first followers and servants sped; The precepts sage they wrote to many a land; How he, who lone in' Patmos banished, Saw in the sun a mighty angel stand, And heard great Bab'lon's doom pronounced by Heaven's command. Then kneeling down to Heaven's Eternal King, The saint, the father, and the husband prays; Hope 'springs...
118. oldal - He thinks in a peculiar train, and he thinks always as a man of genius; he looks round on Nature and on Life with the eye which Nature bestows only on a poet, the eye that distinguishes in...
118. oldal - As a writer, he is entitled to one praise of the highest kind : 'his mode of thinking and of expressing his thoughts is original. His blank verse is no more the blank verse of Milton, or of any other poet, than the rhymes of Prior are the rhymes of Cowley.
526. oldal - My vanity was highly gratified by the reception I met with from the public ; and besides I pocketed, all expenses deducted, nearly twenty pounds. This sum came very seasonably, as I was thinking of indenting myself, for want of money to procure my passage.
526. oldal - I had been for some days skulking from covert to covert, under all the terrors of a jail; as some ill-advised people had uncoupled the merciless pack of the law at my heels. I had taken the last farewell of my few friends; my chest was on the road to Greenock; I had composed the last song I should ever measure in Caledonia— "The Gloomy Night Is Gathering Fast,
526. oldal - I was thinking of indenting myself, for want of money to procure my passage. As soon as I was master of nine guineas, the price of wafting me to the torrid zone, I took a steerage passage in the first ship that was to sail from the Clyde, for Hungry ruin had me in the wind.
521. oldal - Robert, and his younger brother, Gilbert, had been grounded a little in English before they were put under my care. They both made a rapid progress in reading, and a tolerable progress in writing. In reading, dividing words into syllables by rule, spelling without book, parsing sentences, &c.
534. oldal - BURNS, notwithstanding the fanfaronade of independence to be found in his works, and after having been held forth to public view and to public estimation as a man of some genius, yet, quite destitute of resources within himself to support his borrowed dignity, he dwindled into a paltry exciseman, and slunk out the rest of his insignificant existence in the meanest of pursuits, and among the vilest of mankind.
337. oldal - Navarre that day six weeks, by nine o'clock in the morning, where he would attend them, and be ready to answer to whatever should be proposed to him, in any art or science, and in any of these twelve languages, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic, Greek, Latin, Spanish, French, Italian, English, Dutch, Flemish, and Sclavonian ; and this either in verse or prose, at the discretion of the disputant.
536. oldal - But though jealous of the respect due to himself, Burns never enforced it where he saw it was willingly paid ; and, though inaccessible to the approaches of pride, he was open to every advance of kindness and of benevolence. His dark and haughty countenance easily relaxed into a look of good-will, of pity, or of tenderness...