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In doing so I passed over a Scottish moor , the first I had ever seen , though I had
read and heard much of them . It was truly a bleak and dreary tract of country . Far
as the eye could reach , nothing was to be seen but bog and moss , fern and ...
In doing so I passed over a Scottish moor , the first I had ever seen , though I had
read and heard much of them . It was truly a bleak and dreary tract of country . Far
as the eye could reach , nothing was to be seen but bog and moss , fern and ...
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No one , who has not seen it , can conceive of the peculiar verdure and softness
of a Scottish meadow . It sometimes happens that these lawns are allowed to lie
for half a century , or more , without ever being disturbed by the ruthless plough ...
No one , who has not seen it , can conceive of the peculiar verdure and softness
of a Scottish meadow . It sometimes happens that these lawns are allowed to lie
for half a century , or more , without ever being disturbed by the ruthless plough ...
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This curious work is one of the earliest specimens of Scottish poetry now in
existence . I used to clamber up the old ruined wall , and seating myself on a
projecting stone , it was an easy matter , in imagination , to reconstruct the old
hall and ...
This curious work is one of the earliest specimens of Scottish poetry now in
existence . I used to clamber up the old ruined wall , and seating myself on a
projecting stone , it was an easy matter , in imagination , to reconstruct the old
hall and ...
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Not far from that of Scott is the tomb of Ralph Erskine , the author of " The Gospel
Sonnets , " and of his brother Ebenezer , both celebrated Scottish divines . The
Abbey is situated in one of the most lovely spots that I ever saw . Surrounded by a
...
Not far from that of Scott is the tomb of Ralph Erskine , the author of " The Gospel
Sonnets , " and of his brother Ebenezer , both celebrated Scottish divines . The
Abbey is situated in one of the most lovely spots that I ever saw . Surrounded by a
...
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The following legend respecting Dryburgh is told by Sir Walter Scott , in his
Minstrelsy of the Scottish border . Soon after the rebellion in 1745 , an
unfortunate female wanderer took up her residence in a dark vault among the
ruins of Dryburgh ...
The following legend respecting Dryburgh is told by Sir Walter Scott , in his
Minstrelsy of the Scottish border . Soon after the rebellion in 1745 , an
unfortunate female wanderer took up her residence in a dark vault among the
ruins of Dryburgh ...
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188 ページ - O Scotia ! my dear, my native soil ! For whom my warmest wish to Heaven is sent, Long may thy hardy sons of rustic toil Be blest with health, and peace, and sweet content ! And...
9 ページ - THE SEA. The Sea ! the Sea ! the open Sea ! The blue, the fresh, the ever free ! Without a mark, without a bound, It runneth the earth's wide regions 'round ; It plays with the clouds ; it mocks the skies ; Or like a cradled creature lies.
82 ページ - O'er Roslin all that dreary night, A wondrous blaze was seen to gleam ; 'Twas broader than the watch-fire's light, And redder than the bright moon-beam. It glared on Roslin's castled rock, It ruddied all the copse-wood glen ; 'Twas seen from Dryden's groves of oak, And seen from cavern'd Hawthornden.
33 ページ - In these far climes it was my lot To meet the wondrous Michael Scott ; A wizard of such dreaded fame That when, in Salamanca's cave, Him listed his magic wand to wave, The bells would ring in Notre Dame...
93 ページ - AND call they this Improvement? — to have changed My native Clyde, thy once romantic shore, Where Nature's face is banish'd and estranged.
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156 ページ - 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. High on the south, huge Benvenue Down on the lake in masses threw Crags, knolls, and mounds, confusedly hurl'd, The fragments of an earlier world...
74 ページ - There are twenty of Roslin's barons bold Lie buried within that proud chapelle; Each one the holy vault doth hold— But the sea holds lovely Rosabelle. And each St Clair was buried there, With candle, with book, and with knell ; But the sea-caves rung, and the wild winds sung, The dirge of lovely Rosabelle ! XXIV.
17 ページ - Whose heart hath ne'er within him burned As home his footsteps he hath turned, From wandering on a foreign stand?