Etchings illustrative of Scottish character and scenery. Sir T.D. Lauder's ed. with additional plates and letterpress1885 |
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... PICTURE BOOK . LXIV . " COME TO MAMMY , DEARIE . " LXV . - A GROUP OF SCOTS FOLKS . LXVI . - FAIR GAMBLERS . LXVII . - SCENE AT ALL - HALLOW FAIR . LXVIII . - FISHWIFE SMOKING . LXIX . THE SHOE - STAND . LXX . - A YOUTHFUL ARTIST ...
... PICTURE BOOK . LXIV . " COME TO MAMMY , DEARIE . " LXV . - A GROUP OF SCOTS FOLKS . LXVI . - FAIR GAMBLERS . LXVII . - SCENE AT ALL - HALLOW FAIR . LXVIII . - FISHWIFE SMOKING . LXIX . THE SHOE - STAND . LXX . - A YOUTHFUL ARTIST ...
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... pictures where it was subsidiary to his groups and figures , when his efforts were by no means always successful , he drew a great deal from nature in that way . As his love for " his own romantic town " was always extremely warm , his ...
... pictures where it was subsidiary to his groups and figures , when his efforts were by no means always successful , he drew a great deal from nature in that way . As his love for " his own romantic town " was always extremely warm , his ...
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... picture — the subject of which was that part of the High Street , towards the Castle Hill , since demolished by the recent improvements , a painting executed only six days before his death , and whilst the fatal fever was growing on him ...
... picture — the subject of which was that part of the High Street , towards the Castle Hill , since demolished by the recent improvements , a painting executed only six days before his death , and whilst the fatal fever was growing on him ...
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... picture of the change which has taken place . After mentioning that he dealt less extensively than others near him in the wares in question , he says , " Not many years ago , I drew £ 30 annually for trashy ballads , and still more ...
... picture of the change which has taken place . After mentioning that he dealt less extensively than others near him in the wares in question , he says , " Not many years ago , I drew £ 30 annually for trashy ballads , and still more ...
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... picture are not unfrequently forgotten , as well by painters as by those who attempt to give a living representation of the state of drunkenness . When Garrick was in France , he made a short excursion from the capital with Preville ...
... picture are not unfrequently forgotten , as well by painters as by those who attempt to give a living representation of the state of drunkenness . When Garrick was in France , he made a short excursion from the capital with Preville ...
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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