Remarks on Local Scenery & Manners in Scotland: During the Years 1799 and 1800, 2. kötetWilliam Miller, 1801 - 341 oldal |
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... men . There is not almost any other argu- ment , whereof their rimes intreat . ' It must be acknowleged , that in the neatness of * See a Brief Description , & c . A.D. 1633 . their houses , and in the cleanliness of their persons B 3 5.
... men . There is not almost any other argu- ment , whereof their rimes intreat . ' It must be acknowleged , that in the neatness of * See a Brief Description , & c . A.D. 1633 . their houses , and in the cleanliness of their persons B 3 5.
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... persons , they are considerably less careful , than their southern neighbours , and even than the peasantry of other mountainous northern countries , such as Swisserland or Norway ; but this may also be traced to the habits of a rude ...
... persons , they are considerably less careful , than their southern neighbours , and even than the peasantry of other mountainous northern countries , such as Swisserland or Norway ; but this may also be traced to the habits of a rude ...
7. oldal
... persons , two were weavers , and one a shoemaker . In addition to these professions , they were all farmers , cattle - dealers , fishers , and occasion- ally boatmen . When a company , such as ours , comes in their way ( which is but ...
... persons , two were weavers , and one a shoemaker . In addition to these professions , they were all farmers , cattle - dealers , fishers , and occasion- ally boatmen . When a company , such as ours , comes in their way ( which is but ...
13. oldal
... persons accustomed to see in buildings greater marks of contrivance , they must be too sim- ple , even to appear picturesque ; for our notions of picturesqueness itself are interwoven with many sen- timents founded on utility . Perhaps ...
... persons accustomed to see in buildings greater marks of contrivance , they must be too sim- ple , even to appear picturesque ; for our notions of picturesqueness itself are interwoven with many sen- timents founded on utility . Perhaps ...
31. oldal
... person had ever explored it . A guide , therefore , was useless ; a companion might only have been troublesome ; and without expecting to reach it , I ascended alone , with the hope of getting a nearer view of the crags , by which it is ...
... person had ever explored it . A guide , therefore , was useless ; a companion might only have been troublesome ; and without expecting to reach it , I ascended alone , with the hope of getting a nearer view of the crags , by which it is ...
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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...