Black's Guide to ScotlandA. and C. Black, 1903 - 577 ページ |
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Abbey Aberdeen Aberfeldy ancient Argyll ascends Ballachulish bank beautiful Berwick Bridge building built burgh Burns Caledonian Caledonian Railway called Castle Cathedral Cave centre century Chapel church Clyde coach coast contains Craig Crieff cross Dalmally Duke Earl east Edinburgh entrance erected favourite Ferry Firth fishing Gairloch garden George Glasgow Glen grounds Hall height Highland Hill Hotel House Inveraray Inverness island Isle James James VI junction King Kingussie Leith Loch Awe Loch Lomond Loch Long Loch Maree Lodge Lomond Lord mansion Mary's miles farther monument mountain North British Railway north side Oban palace parish Park pass Perth picturesque pier Pitlochry Princes Street Queen railway reached residence river road rock route Royal ruins scenery Scotland Scott Scottish seat seen shore situated stands station steamer Stirling stone Tarbert tower town Tweed village walk wall wooded
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425 ページ - Watching their leader's beck and will, All silent there they stood, and still. Like the loose crags whose threatening mass Lay tottering o'er the hollow pass, As if an infant's touch could urge Their headlong passage down the verge, With step and weapon forward flung, Upon the mountain-side they hung.
219 ページ - Syne" brings Scotland, one and all, Scotch plaids, Scotch snoods, the blue hills, and clear streams, The Dee, the Don, Balgounie's brig's Hack 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.
228 ページ - I strode through the pine-covered glade. I sought not my home till the day's dying glory Gave place to the rays of the bright polar star ; For fancy was cheer'd by traditional story, Disclosed by the natives of dark Loch ua Garr.
226 ページ - Away, ye gay landscapes, ye gardens of roses ! In you let the minions of luxury rove; Restore me the rocks where the snow-flake reposes, Though still they are sacred to freedom and love.
411 ページ - Where, thro' a shapeless breach, his stream resounds; As high in air the bursting torrents flow, As deep recoiling surges foam below, Prone down the rock the whitening sheet descends, And viewless Echo's ear, astonished, rends. Dim-seen, thro' rising mists, and ceaseless show'rs, The hoary cavern, wide-surrounding, low'rs. Still, thro...
68 ページ - With all his verdure spoil'd, and trees adrift, Down the great river to the opening gulf, And there take root, an island salt and bare, The haunt of seals, and ores, and sea-mews...
62 ページ - Blazed battlement and pinnet high, Blazed every rose-carved buttress fair, So still they blaze, when fate is nigh The lordly line of high St. Clair.
229 ページ - WE ARRIVED AT BALMORAL AT A QUARTER TO THREE. It is a pretty little castle in the old Scottish style. There is a picturesque tower and garden in front, with a high wooded hill; at the back there is wood down to the Dee; and the hills rise all around.
370 ページ - All ruin'd and wild is their roofless abode, And lonely the dark raven's sheltering tree : And travell'd by few is the grass-cover'd road, Where the hunter of deer and the warrior trode, To his hills that encircle the sea.
148 ページ - But certainly this noble lake, boasting innumerable beautiful islands, of every varying form and outline which fancy can frame, its northern extremity narrowing until it is lost among dusky and retreating mountains, while, gradually widening as it extends to the southward, it spreads its base around the indentures and promontories of a fair and fertile land, affords one of the most surprising, beautiful, and sublime spectacles in nature.