Remarks on Local Scenery & Manners in Scotland: During the Years 1799 and 1800, 2. kötetWilliam Miller, 1801 - 341 oldal |
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... give them altogether a terrific appearance . The men are some- times tall and stout , but more commonly short , and ill made . Probably this is to be attributed not merely to their food , and labour ; but to the change of manners in ...
... give them altogether a terrific appearance . The men are some- times tall and stout , but more commonly short , and ill made . Probably this is to be attributed not merely to their food , and labour ; but to the change of manners in ...
11. oldal
... of the seat of Sir Dun- can Campbell , of Loch Nell , backed by a steep , fir - planted eminence , which gives name to this bay , and receives its own denomination from overlooking the extensive island of Lismore * . It is topped II.
... of the seat of Sir Dun- can Campbell , of Loch Nell , backed by a steep , fir - planted eminence , which gives name to this bay , and receives its own denomination from overlooking the extensive island of Lismore * . It is topped II.
14. oldal
... gives them a singular effect when illumined by the sun . Upon the whole , they are well suited to a wild , secluded scene of rock , or woods ; but appear poor and miserable when collected together in villages . At a point of the hills ...
... gives them a singular effect when illumined by the sun . Upon the whole , they are well suited to a wild , secluded scene of rock , or woods ; but appear poor and miserable when collected together in villages . At a point of the hills ...
17. oldal
... gives it , does not suit the present appearance of this district . By the country people the range of mountains is distin- guished into different divisions : those nearest the main sea are called Morven , higher up Kingareloch , and ...
... gives it , does not suit the present appearance of this district . By the country people the range of mountains is distin- guished into different divisions : those nearest the main sea are called Morven , higher up Kingareloch , and ...
25. oldal
... would think , no force could have detached from their native beds . About a quarter of a mile distant , is the inn , or ra- ther ferry - house , placed on a rocky eminence , where the lake is confined within the narrows , which give 25.
... would think , no force could have detached from their native beds . About a quarter of a mile distant , is the inn , or ra- ther ferry - house , placed on a rocky eminence , where the lake is confined within the narrows , which give 25.
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affords ancient appearance Appin Ballachulish banks beauty Ben Ledi border bridge building built called Castle church coast commanding considerable cottages Craig crossed descend distance Duke Earl Edinburgh effect Eildon hills eminence feeling feet ferry Firth Fochabers formerly Fort William Gaelic Glen Coe grounds height Highland hills inhabitants Inverness island lake Leven Loch Loch Eil Loch Etive Loch Leven Loch Lochy Loch Oich Loch Tay Lochy lofty Lord ment modern mountains nature neat neighbourhood Ness noble objects passed picturesque plain plantations pleasure possess present proprietor prospect racter remains remarkable rendered residence river road rock rocky romantic royal burgh ruins Rumbling Bridge scene scenery Scotland Scottish seat seen singular situation Spey spot Stirling stone Strath stream striking sublime summit supposed surrounded taste TILDEN FOUNDATIONS tion tower town traces vale village whole wild wind wood woody
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20. oldal - That on a wild secluded scene impress Thoughts of more deep seclusion ; and connect The landscape with the quiet of the sky.
64. oldal - When in one night, ere glimpse of morn, His shadowy flail hath threshed the corn That ten day-labourers could not end, Then lies him down, the lubber fiend, And, stretched out all the chimney's length, Basks at the fire his hairy strength; And crop-full out of doors he flings, Ere the first cock his matin rings.
127. oldal - Right in the middest of that Paradise There stood a stately mount, on whose round top A gloomy grove of mirtle trees did rise...
171. oldal - The redbreast warbles still, but is content With slender notes, and more than half suppress'd : Pleased with his solitude, and flitting light From spray to spray, where'er he rests he shakes From many a twig the pendent drops of ice That tinkle in the wither'd leaves below. Stillness, accompanied with sounds so soft, Charms more than silence.
83. oldal - To th' instruments divine respondence meet: The silver sounding instruments did meet With the base murmure of the waters fall: The waters fall with difference discreet, Now soft, now loud, unto the wind did call: The gentle warbling wind low answered to all.
171. oldal - No noise is here, or none that hinders thought. The redbreast warbles still, but is content With slender notes, and more than half...
336. oldal - Or flowery odour, mixed with spicery, No soft embrace or pleasure bodily ; And yet it is a kind of inward feast, A harmony that sounds within the breast, An odour, light, embrace, in which the soul doth rest.
48. oldal - And airy mountaines shake, and frighted shadows howL Famine, and bloodless Care, and bloody War, Want, and the want of knowledge how to use Abundance ; Age, and Fear that runs afar Before his fellow Grief, that aye pursues His winged steps...
127. oldal - And in the midst of all a fountaine stood, Of richest substance that on earth might bee, So pure and shiny that the silver flood Through every channell running one might see ; Most goodly it with curious ymageree Was overwrought, and shapes of naked boyes, Of which some seemd with lively jollitee To fly about, playing their wanton toyes, Whylest others did themselves embay in liquid joyes.
314. oldal - Large galleries, where piece with piece doth seeme to strive, Of pictures done to life, landskip, and perspective, Thence goodly gardens sees, where antique statues stand In stone and copper, cut by many a...