Remarks on Local Scenery & Manners in Scotland: During the Years 1799 and 1800, 2. kötetWilliam Miller, 1801 - 341 oldal |
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14. oldal
... noble and tremendous height , overhung our path ; they were composed of a coarse pudding - stone , resembling those near Oban ; their vast detached fragments , and their nodding ruins , bound with ivy , appeared awfully grand . They ...
... noble and tremendous height , overhung our path ; they were composed of a coarse pudding - stone , resembling those near Oban ; their vast detached fragments , and their nodding ruins , bound with ivy , appeared awfully grand . They ...
34. oldal
... noble bay , is the Isle of Mun , so called from St. Mungo : the remains of a chapel dedicated to him , are still to be seen , and the ground around it is held sacred . The farm of Callert , opposite Inverco , gives name to the mountain ...
... noble bay , is the Isle of Mun , so called from St. Mungo : the remains of a chapel dedicated to him , are still to be seen , and the ground around it is held sacred . The farm of Callert , opposite Inverco , gives name to the mountain ...
40. oldal
... noble situation for a house . The road winds behind it , and again rejoins the lake at Inverrie , or , as it is sometimes called , Inchrie . Loch Eil , for so the Linne is now called , is less in- teresting than Loch Leven . Its sides ...
... noble situation for a house . The road winds behind it , and again rejoins the lake at Inverrie , or , as it is sometimes called , Inchrie . Loch Eil , for so the Linne is now called , is less in- teresting than Loch Leven . Its sides ...
43. oldal
... noble sensations , which it affords . Though we could not reach the summit of the mountain , we resolved to explore the wildnesses of the glen . For that purpose , having called on Captain Cameron , the proprietor of this estate , whose ...
... noble sensations , which it affords . Though we could not reach the summit of the mountain , we resolved to explore the wildnesses of the glen . For that purpose , having called on Captain Cameron , the proprietor of this estate , whose ...
64. oldal
... noble plantations . Invergarry was one of the places believed , till very lately , to be frequented by a Brownie , an innocent little being , answering in every thing but size , to Milton's " drudging goblin , " who " sweat , To earn ...
... noble plantations . Invergarry was one of the places believed , till very lately , to be frequented by a Brownie , an innocent little being , answering in every thing but size , to Milton's " drudging goblin , " who " sweat , To earn ...
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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...