The Picture of Scotland, 第 2 巻William Tait, 1828 |
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Aberdeen ancient antiquity appearance beautiful Borthwick Castle bridge Bruce building built Caithness called castle cathedral celebrated century chapel church coast Crieff curiosity Dalkeith House distance district Dunbar Dundee Dunfermline Earl east edifice Edinburgh eminence erected extremity Falkland feet Fife Firth Forfar formed formerly fortress ground Haddington harbour Highlands hill inhabitants Inverkeithing Inverness island James James VI King lady lake land Linlithgow Loch Loch Katrine Loch Lomond Lord miles modern Moray Muthil neighbourhood neighbouring object occupied Paisley palace parish pass person Perth Perthshire Peterhead Pinkie House possessed present Queen remarkable residence rising river road rock Roman royal burgh ruins scene scenery Scot Scotland Scottish seat shore side singular situated spot St Andrews Stirling stone stranger street supposed tion tourist tower town tradition traveller vale village wall whole wild wood
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388 ページ - 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.
337 ページ - Boon nature scatter'd, free and wild, Each plant or flower, the mountain's child. Here eglantine embalm'd the air, Hawthorn and hazel mingled there ; The primrose pale and violet flower, Found in each cliff a narrow bower...
31 ページ - Sir king, my mother hath sent me to you, desiring you not to pass, at this time, where thou art purposed ; for if thou does, thou wilt not fare well in thy journey, nor none that passeth with thee. Further, she bade...
406 ページ - We were now treading that illustrious island, which was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge, and the blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible if it were endeavoured, and would be foolish if it were possible. Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses ; whatever makes the past, the distant, or...
338 ページ - Where glistening streamers waved and danced, The wanderer's eye could barely view The summer heaven's delicious blue ; So wondrous wild, the whole might seem The scenery of a fairy dream.
339 ページ - Where, gleaming with the setting sun, One burnished sheet of living gold, Loch- Katrine lay beneath him rolled ; In all her length far winding lay, With promontory, creek, and bay, And islands that, empurpled bright, Floated amid the livelier light ; And mountains, that like giants stand, To sentinel enchanted land.
16 ページ - Of all the palaces so fair, Built for the royal dwelling In Scotland, far beyond compare Linlithgow is excelling; And in its park in jovial June, How sweet the merry linnet's tune, How blithe the blackbird's lay ! The wild buck bells from ferny brake, The coot dives merry on the lake, The saddest heart might pleasure take To see all nature gay.
337 ページ - Aloft, the ash and warrior oak Cast anchor in the rifted rock ; And, higher yet, the pine-tree hung His shatter'd trunk, and frequent flung, Where seem'd the cliffs to meet on high, His boughs athwart the narrow'd sky.
160 ページ - ... him : I'm feared it was the thing that's no canny." " Fiend nor he had ta'en the girnin brat clean awa !" said King James, whose demonological learning made him at once see the truth of the nurse's observation ;
95 ページ - ... imprisoned here for some time ; James V. resided there occasionally during his minority ; and, in the eventful 1566, Queen Mary resided there, and held, with her deceitful and double-dealing counsellors, some of those dark and mysterious councils which terminated in Darnley's death, and her own ruin. So often had Craigmillar been honoured with her residence, that the adjacent village acquired the name of Petty France, from her French guards being quartered there. In point of architecture and...