Remarks on Local Scenery & Manners in Scotland During the Years 1799 and 1800, Volym 1William Miller, 1801 - 341 sidor |
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... building , and the fine back - ground afforded by the high wood of the Park rising immediately be- hind it . There is an idle , and somewhat unfeeling remark , that English hospitals are palaces , while our palaces are hospitals - I ...
... building , and the fine back - ground afforded by the high wood of the Park rising immediately be- hind it . There is an idle , and somewhat unfeeling remark , that English hospitals are palaces , while our palaces are hospitals - I ...
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... build- ings . I shall not easily forget the singular impres- sion , which I received , on first crossing the North Bridge , and beholding the strange contrast between the New and Old Town , the mixture , or rather con- fusion , of hill ...
... build- ings . I shall not easily forget the singular impres- sion , which I received , on first crossing the North Bridge , and beholding the strange contrast between the New and Old Town , the mixture , or rather con- fusion , of hill ...
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... building , and were reflected like torches from the whole range of windows . In laying out the New Town , which was ... buildings . It was long ago suggested by Commissioner Stodart , a member of the town council , that this principle ...
... building , and were reflected like torches from the whole range of windows . In laying out the New Town , which was ... buildings . It was long ago suggested by Commissioner Stodart , a member of the town council , that this principle ...
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... buildings of the Old Town the other ; whilst in the middle , the bridge would not only present an elegant form in it ... building the New Town . After conducting his reader , with great judgment , round the bottom of the Castle rock ...
... buildings of the Old Town the other ; whilst in the middle , the bridge would not only present an elegant form in it ... building the New Town . After conducting his reader , with great judgment , round the bottom of the Castle rock ...
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... buildings , some of them decaying , some de- serted , some renovated - the narrow and winding streets , at one time connected by steep declivities , or flights of steps , at another overlaid by transverse arches - these , and a thousand ...
... buildings , some of them decaying , some de- serted , some renovated - the narrow and winding streets , at one time connected by steep declivities , or flights of steps , at another overlaid by transverse arches - these , and a thousand ...
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Remarks on Local Scenery & Manners in Scotland During the Years ..., Volym 1 John Stoddart Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1801 |
Remarks on Local Scenery & Manners in Scotland During the Years ..., Volym 1 John Stoddart Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1801 |
Remarks on Local Scenery & Manners in Scotland During the Years ..., Volym 1 John Stoddart Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1801 |
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admiration afford ancient appears Arthur's Seat banks beautiful Ben Lomond bridge building built called Calton Hill castle church Clyde cottages crossing Cruachan distance Dumbarton edifice Edinburgh effect eminence fall favourable feeling Firth Gaelic Glasgow Glen Glen Croe gloom ground Highland hills inhabitants interesting Inverary island kind lake land Lanerk Leith less Linn Loch Loch Awe Loch Earn Loch Etive Loch Fyne Loch Lomond lofty Lomond mass ment miles Millheugh mills mountains Nattes natural noble objects observed painter passed perhaps picturesque pleasing poet present probably quarry racter remarkable rendered residence river road rock rocky Rosline ruins scarcely scene scenery Scotland seat seems shore side singular situation spirit spot Staffa stone stream Street striking sublimity summit taste tion tower town traveller Ulva vale village walk Water of Leith whilst whole wild winding wood woody
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Sida xiv - The learned Smelfungus travelled from Boulogne to Paris, from Paris to Rome, and so on ; but he set out with the spleen and jaundice, and every object he passed by was discoloured or distorted. He wrote an account of them, but 'twas nothing but the account of his miserable feelings.
Sida 15 - Direct it flies and rapid, Shattering that it may reach, and shattering what it reaches. My son ! the road, the human being travels, That, on which BLESSING comes and goes, doth follow The river's course, the valley's playful windings, Curves round the corn-field and the hill of vines, Honouring the holy bounds of property ! And thus secure, though late, leads to its end.
Sida xiv - Hope and fantastic expectations spend much of our lives : and while with passion we look for a coronation, or the death of an enemy, or a day of joy, passing from fancy to possession without any intermedial notices, we throw away a precious year...
Sida 30 - It is reported in old times, upon the saide rock there was a bell, fixed upon a tree or timber, which rang continually, being uioyed by the sea, giving notice to the saylers of the danger. This bell or clocke was put there and maintained by the Abbot of Aberbrothok, and being taken down by a sea pirate, a yeare therafter he perished upon the same rocke, with ship and goodes, in the righteous judgement of God...
Sida 230 - The Cypress and her spire; —Of flowers that with one scarlet gleam Cover a hundred leagues, and seem To set the hills on fire. The Youth of green savannahs spake, And many an endless, endless lake, With all its fairy crowds Of islands, that together lie As quietly as spots of sky Among the evening clouds.
Sida 29 - THE INCHCAPE ROCK. AN old writer mentions a curious tradition which may be worth quoting. " By east the Isle of May," says he, "twelve miles from all land in the German seas, lyes a great hidden rock, called Inchcape, very dangerous for navigators, because it is overflowed everie tide. It is reported, in old times, upon the saide rock there was a bell, fixed upon a tree or timber, which rang continually, being moved by the sea...
Sida 127 - the simple unostentatious elegance of the cottage, and the domestic picture which he there contemplated — a man of native kindness and cultivated talent, passing the intervals of a learned profession amidst scenes highly favourable to his poetic inspirations, not in churlish and rustic solitude, but in the daily exercise of the most precious sympathies as a husband, a father, and a friend.
Sida 70 - February, 1688, that Mr. James Renwick suffered, were one way or other murdered and destroyed for the same cause about eighteen thousand, of whom were executed at Edinburgh about an hundred of noblemen, gentlemen, ministers and others, noble martyrs for JESUS CHRIST. The most of them lie here.
Sida 129 - I ever would have knowne, To stand by mine, that most ingenious knight, My Alexander, to whom in his right, I want extreamely, yet in speaking thus I doe but shew the love, that was twixt us, And not his numbers which were brave and hie, 1 70 So like his mind was his cleare Poesie...
Sida 129 - That man whose name I ever would have known To stand by mine, that most ingenious knight, My Alexander, to whom in his right I want extremely, yet in speaking thus I do but show the love that was 'twixt us, And not his numbers, which were brave and high, So like his mind was his clear poesy...