The Scottish Antiquary: Or, Northern Notes & Queries, 第 15~17 巻

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T. and A. Constable, 1901
 

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83 ページ - No, faith, not a jot; but to follow him thither with modesty enough, and likelihood to lead it; as thus: Alexander died, Alexander was buried, Alexander returneth...
168 ページ - SHALL I, wasting in despair, Die because a woman's fair? Or make pale my cheeks with care 'Cause another's rosy are? Be she fairer than the day, Or the flowery meads in May, If she think not well of me, What care I how fair she be?
169 ページ - Joined with a lovely feature? Be she meeker, kinder than Turtledove or pelican, If she be not so to me What care I how kind she be? Shall a woman's virtues move Me to perish for her love ? Or her well-deservings known Make me quite forget mine own ? Be she with that goodness blest Which may merit name of Best, If she be not such to me, What care I how good she be?
169 ページ - I how great she be ? Great or good, or kind or fair, I will ne'er the more despair: If she love me, this believe — I will die ere she shall grieve. If she slight me when I woo, I can scorn and let her go : If she be not fit for me, What care I for whom she be ? THE BTBADFAST SHEPHERD.
233 ページ - CRAIK. A Century of Scottish History. From the Days before the '45 to those within living Memory. By Sir HENRY CRAIK, KCB, MA (Oxon.), Hon. LL.D. (Glasgow). 2 vols. demy Svo, 30s. net. CRAWFORD. Saracinesca. By F. MARION CRAWFORD, Author of ' Mr Isaacs,
185 ページ - Every isle differs from each other in their fancy of making plads, as to the stripes in breadth and colours. This humour is as different through the mainland of the Highlands, in so far that they who have seen those places are able, at the first view of a man's plad, to guess the place of his residence.
27 ページ - ... wytte so scherpe, He lernyd so wele, with-outene les, So gode herpere never non was ; In all this werld was no man bore, That had kyng Orfeo ben be-fore, And he my3ht hys herpe here, Bot he wold...
12 ページ - Rome's sense, when you commit anything distasteful to that see, to hit your Majesty in the teeth, as Pope Paul the Third, late Bishop of Rome, sent to your royal father, saying, ' Didst thou not promise, at our permission of thy Coronation, to forsake the devil and all his works, and dost thou run to heresy ? For the breach of this thy promise, knowest thou not that it is in our power to dispose of thy sword and sceptre to whom we please...
185 ページ - The plaid wore only by the men is made of fine wool, the thread as fine as can be made of that kind. It consists of divers colours ; and there is a great deal of ingenuity required in sorting the colours so as to be agreeable to the nicest fancy...
107 ページ - ... of the water was wanting, they might use the rampart to defend their borders from the irruptions of the enemies. Of which work there erected, that is, of a rampart of extraordinary breadth and height, there are evident remains to be seen at this day. It begins at about two miles...

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