Remarks on Local Scenery & Manners in Scotland During the Years 1799 and 1800, 第 1 卷William Miller, 1801 - 341页 |
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... lakes - and I promised myself a still higher gratifica- tion from carrying my more ripened feelings to the noble landscapes of Scotland . I was not disappointed in my expectations of pleasure ; but during my tour , I did not confine ...
... lakes - and I promised myself a still higher gratifica- tion from carrying my more ripened feelings to the noble landscapes of Scotland . I was not disappointed in my expectations of pleasure ; but during my tour , I did not confine ...
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... lakes , and mountains , and glens ; but he could not shut his eyes to the glorious spectacle of the vast ocean , as a whole ; and on its shores he must have observed the innumerable combinations of its parts , grand , beautiful , or ...
... lakes , and mountains , and glens ; but he could not shut his eyes to the glorious spectacle of the vast ocean , as a whole ; and on its shores he must have observed the innumerable combinations of its parts , grand , beautiful , or ...
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... lakes . It rises , with a gentle declivity , from the east , and terminates , at its western point , in a precipitous basaltic rock , on whose brow the castle was probably first planted , affording shelter to the town , which gradually ...
... lakes . It rises , with a gentle declivity , from the east , and terminates , at its western point , in a precipitous basaltic rock , on whose brow the castle was probably first planted , affording shelter to the town , which gradually ...
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... lake and stream , and the Chinese bridge , which some modern landscape gardener probably con- sidered as the ne plus ultra of invention . I speak not of these improvers , because they have , in the present instance , done much to ...
... lake and stream , and the Chinese bridge , which some modern landscape gardener probably con- sidered as the ne plus ultra of invention . I speak not of these improvers , because they have , in the present instance , done much to ...
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... lake , or a Chinese bridge , may not be very happily introduced into some kinds of scenery ; but it seems , upon the whole , that the suggestions of natural situation have been neglected , in order to make a place ; and that the prin ...
... lake , or a Chinese bridge , may not be very happily introduced into some kinds of scenery ; but it seems , upon the whole , that the suggestions of natural situation have been neglected , in order to make a place ; and that the prin ...
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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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第xiv页 - 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.
第15页 - 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.
第xiv页 - 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...
第30页 - 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...
第230页 - 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.
第29页 - 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...
第127页 - 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.
第70页 - 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.
第129页 - 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...
第129页 - 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...