Remarks on Local Scenery & Manners in Scotland: During the Years 1799 and 1800, 2. kötetWilliam Miller, 1801 - 341 oldal |
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2. oldal
... interesting poem , the Twa Dogs . " In the choice of principles , the most systematic writers are , per- haps , the most apt to err ; and the safest mode of proceeding is to consider a few simple facts , in their relation to similar ...
... interesting poem , the Twa Dogs . " In the choice of principles , the most systematic writers are , per- haps , the most apt to err ; and the safest mode of proceeding is to consider a few simple facts , in their relation to similar ...
23. oldal
... interesting point of view . A little to the north , is seen the division of the Linne into two great branches , Loch Eil , which continues its north- easterly course , to Fort William ; and Loch Leven , which strikes off , due east , to ...
... interesting point of view . A little to the north , is seen the division of the Linne into two great branches , Loch Eil , which continues its north- easterly course , to Fort William ; and Loch Leven , which strikes off , due east , to ...
30. oldal
... interesting poem is not unlike an event , which happened here , a little before my arrival . A young girl , the only daughter of her parents , and generally beloved by her companions , incautiously hastening after a lamb , down a decli ...
... interesting poem is not unlike an event , which happened here , a little before my arrival . A young girl , the only daughter of her parents , and generally beloved by her companions , incautiously hastening after a lamb , down a decli ...
87. oldal
... interesting effect , from the mountains which rise on the sight within land , and the great estuaries which diversify the coast . The town of Inverness itself is neat , and pleasantly situated on a branch of the Murray Firth , which ...
... interesting effect , from the mountains which rise on the sight within land , and the great estuaries which diversify the coast . The town of Inverness itself is neat , and pleasantly situated on a branch of the Murray Firth , which ...
89. oldal
... interesting in those local attachments , which generally predo- minate , and which , whilst they strengthen the bonds of union among the inhabitants , render them doubly hospitable to a casual visitor . Such , at least 89.
... interesting in those local attachments , which generally predo- minate , and which , whilst they strengthen the bonds of union among the inhabitants , render them doubly hospitable to a casual visitor . Such , at least 89.
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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...