Etchings illustrative of Scottish character and scenery. Sir T.D. Lauder's ed. with additional plates and letterpress1885 |
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3. oldal
... hope the best for our country in the days to be , and to expect that she will yet rise much higher than she has ever done in the scale of nations ? It is a curious fact that one man , Dougald Graham , long town - bellman of Glasgow ...
... hope the best for our country in the days to be , and to expect that she will yet rise much higher than she has ever done in the scale of nations ? It is a curious fact that one man , Dougald Graham , long town - bellman of Glasgow ...
11. oldal
... hope that it will not be considered an undue liberty when we state , that Sir David Wilkie expressed a high opinion of the figure of the old Caledonian in this plate , and declared it to tell the purposed tale of the painter admirably ...
... hope that it will not be considered an undue liberty when we state , that Sir David Wilkie expressed a high opinion of the figure of the old Caledonian in this plate , and declared it to tell the purposed tale of the painter admirably ...
21. oldal
... hope that southern subscribers will find the matter attractive . In every respect , the fisher - folk of our coast are a class remarkably individualised . In dress , appearance , habits , and even names , they stand apart from the rest ...
... hope that southern subscribers will find the matter attractive . In every respect , the fisher - folk of our coast are a class remarkably individualised . In dress , appearance , habits , and even names , they stand apart from the rest ...
51. oldal
... hope , faint , perhaps , that he might be restored to health which had been long gradually declining — and no ship had ever left our shores with a richer freightage of earnest prayers for his return . He returned ; but it was not long ...
... hope , faint , perhaps , that he might be restored to health which had been long gradually declining — and no ship had ever left our shores with a richer freightage of earnest prayers for his return . He returned ; but it was not long ...
52. oldal
... hope entertained , that his sacred remains might be interred in some of their great minsters or abbeys - that his bones might repose in St Paul's or Westminster with those of their mighty dead — and if such a funeral had been ordered ...
... hope entertained , that his sacred remains might be interred in some of their great minsters or abbeys - that his bones might repose in St Paul's or Westminster with those of their mighty dead — and if such a funeral had been ordered ...
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Gyakori szavak és kifejezések
admirable after-not Alloway Kirk appearance artist attitude auld bairn bargain bawbee bonnet braw Brodie character countenance Cowgate creel Crummie douce dress Edinburgh face fair feeling figure fish fishwife frae Garker Geikie GEIKIE'S ETCHINGS genius Graham purchased Grassmarket gude guidman hame hand haud head heart honour human humble humour ilka interest labour laird lasses Leith Libberton Lochaber ax look mair mind mony nature neighbours never Newhaven night observed occasion ower owre Patrick Fraser Tytler peculiar picture pipe plate pleasure poet poor possession present purchase ROBERT FERGUSSON scene Scotland Scots Scottish seen Shanter shoemaker sketch smile snopt song souter stand street thou toil town unco WALTER GEIKIE wares weary weel Whan whole William Brodie worthy Wynd yaudies youth
Népszerű szakaszok
78. 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...
79. oldal - Needy knife-grinder ! whither are you going ? Rough is the road, your wheel is out of order — Bleak blows the blast • — your hat has got a hole in't, So have your breeches ! " Weary knife-grinder ! little think the proud ones Who in their coaches roll along the turnpikeroad, what hard work 'tis crying all day, ' Knives and Scissors to grind O...
79. oldal - Was it the squire, for killing of his game, or Covetous parson, for his tithes distraining ? Or roguish lawyer, made you lose your little All in a lawsuit ? (Have you not read the " Rights of Man," by Tom Paine ?) Drops of compassion tremble on my eyelids, Ready to fall, as soon as you have told your Pitiful story.
52. oldal - Ne'er to these chambers, where the mighty rest, Since their foundation, came a nobler guest, Nor e'er was to the bowers of bliss conveyed A fairer spirit, or more welcome shade. In what new region, to the just assigned, What new employments please th' unbodied mind ? A winged Virtue, through th' ethereal sky, From world to world unwearied does he fly?
63. oldal - O'er a' the ills o' life victorious! But pleasures are like poppies spread: You seize the...
66. oldal - For women, born to be controll'd, Stoop to the forward and the bold, Affect the haughty and the proud, The gay, the frolic, and the loud. Who first the generous steed oppress'd, Not kneeling did salute the beast, But with high courage, life, and force, Approaching, tam'd th