Remarks on Local Scenery & Manners in Scotland: During the Years 1799 and 1800, 2. kötetWilliam Miller, 1801 - 341 oldal |
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6. oldal
... minds , in a vain attempt to improve their appearance . We found to our cost , on quitting Aross , that the Islanders have as little dexterity at sea , as on shore . To this , the variety of occupations , practised by 6.
... minds , in a vain attempt to improve their appearance . We found to our cost , on quitting Aross , that the Islanders have as little dexterity at sea , as on shore . To this , the variety of occupations , practised by 6.
7. oldal
During the Years 1799 and 1800 John Stoddart. To this , the variety of occupations , practised by the same individual , very much conduces . On exa- mination , soon after we set sail , we found , that out of our crew of four persons ...
During the Years 1799 and 1800 John Stoddart. To this , the variety of occupations , practised by the same individual , very much conduces . On exa- mination , soon after we set sail , we found , that out of our crew of four persons ...
12. oldal
... variety of those sublime objects which characterize the west of Scotland , this would be the place ; for it is in the very centre of the noblest mountains , sea - lakes , and islands ; it holds , as it were , the key , and presents the ...
... variety of those sublime objects which characterize the west of Scotland , this would be the place ; for it is in the very centre of the noblest mountains , sea - lakes , and islands ; it holds , as it were , the key , and presents the ...
13. oldal
... variety , detaching the building from the surrounding objects , and contrast- ing it with the playful forms of vegetation * ; " but they are also inseparably associated with feelings of ease , and tranquillity ; we sympathize with the ...
... variety , detaching the building from the surrounding objects , and contrast- ing it with the playful forms of vegetation * ; " but they are also inseparably associated with feelings of ease , and tranquillity ; we sympathize with the ...
22. oldal
... variety . The cottages are numerous , simple , and prettily clustered ; and their inhabitants surpass most of the Highlanders in freshness , and beauty . Perhaps , indeed , these remarks may be partly owing to the bright , and cheerful ...
... variety . The cottages are numerous , simple , and prettily clustered ; and their inhabitants surpass most of the Highlanders in freshness , and beauty . Perhaps , indeed , these remarks may be partly owing to the bright , and cheerful ...
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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...