Crumbs from the Land O' CakesGould, 1851 - 192 ページ |
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... side , with the great concave sky bending down , like Providence , all around us . We seemed the centre of a vast circle , " With the blue above , and the blue below , And silence wheresoe'er we go . " In a storm the ocean may be ...
... side , with the great concave sky bending down , like Providence , all around us . We seemed the centre of a vast circle , " With the blue above , and the blue below , And silence wheresoe'er we go . " In a storm the ocean may be ...
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... side of the road flows the sweet river Esk , a most romantic stream , which we passed over four times during the journey . When about half way , we crossed the border into Scotland , and after an absence of eighteen years , I stood once ...
... side of the road flows the sweet river Esk , a most romantic stream , which we passed over four times during the journey . When about half way , we crossed the border into Scotland , and after an absence of eighteen years , I stood once ...
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... uncom- fortable . A high pulpit projected from one side of the church , in front of which stood the precen- tor's desk . The whole aspect of the place indi- 2 * EARLSTOWN . 25 25 thoughtless innocency, a flood of recollections, many ...
... uncom- fortable . A high pulpit projected from one side of the church , in front of which stood the precen- tor's desk . The whole aspect of the place indi- 2 * EARLSTOWN . 25 25 thoughtless innocency, a flood of recollections, many ...
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... side is distinctly seen the ridge built by the Romans as a road , to enable them to ascend . It was a well chosen site for their purpose , as it commands an exten- sive view of the surrounding country . The an- cient Britons were a ...
... side is distinctly seen the ridge built by the Romans as a road , to enable them to ascend . It was a well chosen site for their purpose , as it commands an exten- sive view of the surrounding country . The an- cient Britons were a ...
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... sides of the way the hedges were profusely covered with beautiful blossoms , and the air was richly perfumed with their delightful fragrance . Kelso stands in one of the most lovely spots on the banks of that most romantic of rivers ...
... sides of the way the hedges were profusely covered with beautiful blossoms , and the air was richly perfumed with their delightful fragrance . Kelso stands in one of the most lovely spots on the banks of that most romantic of rivers ...
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ancient appearance arch banks beautiful building built called Castle celebrated century chapel church consists contains covered cross curious death delightful distance earth Edinburgh English erected feet fine five floor four Free Glasgow ground half hall hand height hill hour hundred interesting kind King lady lake land length light living Loch London looking Lord Lord John Russell Mary memory miles monuments morning narrow never night noble object once original painted palace passed persons present Queen received remains residence river road rock romantic royal ruin scene Scotland Scottish seat seemed seen shown side soon stair stands steamer stone surrounded thousand tion took Tower town trees vault venerable walk walls whole winding
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178 ページ - Auld Lang Syne" brings Scotland, one and all, Scotch plaids, Scotch snoods, the blue hills, and clear streams, The Dee, the Don, Balgounie's brig's black wall, All my boy feelings, all my gentler dreams Of what I then dreamt, clothed in their own pall, Like Banquo's offspring: — floating past me seems My childhood, in this childishness of mine: I care not — 'tis a glimpse of "Auld Lang Syne.
190 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.
84 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.
35 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...
95 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.
190 ページ - Long may thy hardy sons of rustic toil Be blest with health, and peace, and sweet content! And oh ! may Heaven their simple lives prevent From luxury's contagion, weak and vile ! Then, howe'er crowns and coronets be rent, A virtuous populace may rise the while, And stand a wall of fire around their much-loved Isle. O Thou! who pour'd the patriotic tide That stream'd thro...
158 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...
76 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.
20 ページ - Whose heart hath ne'er within him burned As home his footsteps he hath turned, From wandering on a foreign stand?