St Kilda Past and Present1878 |
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afterwards alluding already referred ancient appears Benbecula birds boat Borrera called Captain Thomas Celt census character Church cliffs colour Conagher cottages cragsmen deaths describes disease Donald Dunara Castle Dunvegan Edinburgh eggs Fair Isle favourable feathers feet females fish Foula fowlers fowling fulmar Gaelic gannets Harris Highland Hirta hundred informs inhabitants of St land letter Lewis Long Island Lord M'Kenzie M'Vean Macaulay Macculloch Macdiarmid Macdonald Mackenzie Macleod Macleod of Macleod mainland males Martin mentions miles minister natives North Uist occasion Outer Hebrides population present proprietor puffin recent remarkable remote island rock rope Sands says Scotland sea-birds sea-fowl sheep Shillay shore Skye Society of Scottish solan geese solan goose South Uist St Kilda stones summer tacksman tion trismus vessel visit to St visited St Kilda Voyage Western Islands Western Isles Wilson wind women writer
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第122页 - Or waked to ecstasy the living lyre. But knowledge to their eyes her ample page Rich with the spoils of time did ne'er unroll ; Chill Penury repressed their noble rage, And froze the genial current of the soul.
第171页 - Atlantic surge Pours in among the stormy Hebrides; Who can recount what transmigrations there Are annual made ? what nations come and go'( And how the living clouds on clouds arise? Infinite wings! till all the plume-dark air, And rude resounding shore are one wild cry.
第170页 - Or where the Northern ocean, in vast whirls, Boils round the naked melancholy isles Of farthest Thule, and the Atlantic surge Pours in among the stormy Hebrides...
第176页 - Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times ; and the turtle, and the crane, and the swallow, observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the LORD.
第182页 - To strew the laureate hearse where Lycid lies. For so to interpose a little ease, Let our frail thoughts dally with false surmise : — Ay me ! whilst thee the shores and sounding seas Wash far away, where'er thy bones are hurled...
第23页 - The History of St. Kilda. Containing A Description of this remarkable Island ; The Manners and Customs of the Inhabitants ; The Religious and Pagan Antiquities there found ; With many other curious and interesting Particulars.
第182页 - Sleep'st by the fable of Bellerus old, Where the great vision of the guarded mount Looks toward Namancos and Bayona's hold.
第319页 - British crown ; for a nation scattered in the boundless regions of America resembles rays diverging from a focus. All the rays remain but the heat is gone. Their power consisted in their concentration ; when they are dispersed they have no effect.