Remarks on Local Scenery & Manners in Scotland: During the Years 1799 and 1800, المجلد 2William Miller, 1801 - 341 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 21
... The diversity of hill and plain , in the neighbourhood of Airds , the quantity of wood , natural and planted , and the rich sea view , studded with islands , render it a most delightful residence . Hence it has probably been C 3 21.
... The diversity of hill and plain , in the neighbourhood of Airds , the quantity of wood , natural and planted , and the rich sea view , studded with islands , render it a most delightful residence . Hence it has probably been C 3 21.
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... plain , where the rivers Lochy and Nivis unite their waters ; and partly by the sea lake , Loch Eil , which , at this point , taking a sudden turn to the north - west , flows far up among the mountains . The time of the year gave us no ...
... plain , where the rivers Lochy and Nivis unite their waters ; and partly by the sea lake , Loch Eil , which , at this point , taking a sudden turn to the north - west , flows far up among the mountains . The time of the year gave us no ...
الصفحة 70
... plain , on which stands Fort Augustus . It is a neater edifice than Fort William , and in point of picturesque effect much superior . The waters of Loch Ness wash its walls , and stretch their vast ex- panse far to the north - east ...
... plain , on which stands Fort Augustus . It is a neater edifice than Fort William , and in point of picturesque effect much superior . The waters of Loch Ness wash its walls , and stretch their vast ex- panse far to the north - east ...
الصفحة 75
... plain of the richest verdure , through which the stream gently winds , overhung with birch and hazel : from its form , there can be little doubt , that it was once floated by a lake , until the waters forcing their way through the ...
... plain of the richest verdure , through which the stream gently winds , overhung with birch and hazel : from its form , there can be little doubt , that it was once floated by a lake , until the waters forcing their way through the ...
الصفحة 81
... plain is a populous and thriving village , the neatness of which , together with the improved state of the roads , the bridges , the inn , & c . evinces the happiness of its inhabitants . The strongest proof of this is given , by their ...
... plain is a populous and thriving village , the neatness of which , together with the improved state of the roads , the bridges , the inn , & c . evinces the happiness of its inhabitants . The strongest proof of this is given , by their ...
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affords ancient appearance Appin Ballachulish banks beauty Ben Ledi border bridge building built called Castle church coast commanding considerable cottages Craig crossed descend distance Duke Earl Edinburgh effect Eildon hills eminence feeling feet ferry Firth Fochabers formerly Fort William Gaelic Glen Coe grounds height Highland hills inhabitants Inverness island lake Leven Loch Loch Eil Loch Etive Loch Leven Loch Lochy Loch Oich Loch Tay Lochy lofty Lord ment modern mountains nature neat neighbourhood Ness noble objects passed picturesque plain plantations pleasure possess present proprietor prospect racter remains remarkable rendered residence river road rock rocky romantic royal burgh ruins Rumbling Bridge scene scenery Scotland Scottish seat seen singular situation Spey spot Stirling stone Strath stream striking sublime summit supposed surrounded taste TILDEN FOUNDATIONS tion tower town traces vale village whole wild wind wood woody
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الصفحة 20 - That on a wild secluded scene impress Thoughts of more deep seclusion ; and connect The landscape with the quiet of the sky.
الصفحة 64 - When in one night, ere glimpse of morn, His shadowy flail hath threshed the corn That ten day-labourers could not end, Then lies him down, the lubber fiend, And, stretched out all the chimney's length, Basks at the fire his hairy strength; And crop-full out of doors he flings, Ere the first cock his matin rings.
الصفحة 127 - Right in the middest of that Paradise There stood a stately mount, on whose round top A gloomy grove of mirtle trees did rise...
الصفحة 171 - The redbreast warbles still, but is content With slender notes, and more than half suppress'd : Pleased with his solitude, and flitting light From spray to spray, where'er he rests he shakes From many a twig the pendent drops of ice That tinkle in the wither'd leaves below. Stillness, accompanied with sounds so soft, Charms more than silence.
الصفحة 83 - To th' instruments divine respondence meet: The silver sounding instruments did meet With the base murmure of the waters fall: The waters fall with difference discreet, Now soft, now loud, unto the wind did call: The gentle warbling wind low answered to all.
الصفحة 171 - No noise is here, or none that hinders thought. The redbreast warbles still, but is content With slender notes, and more than half...
الصفحة 336 - Or flowery odour, mixed with spicery, No soft embrace or pleasure bodily ; And yet it is a kind of inward feast, A harmony that sounds within the breast, An odour, light, embrace, in which the soul doth rest.
الصفحة 48 - And airy mountaines shake, and frighted shadows howL Famine, and bloodless Care, and bloody War, Want, and the want of knowledge how to use Abundance ; Age, and Fear that runs afar Before his fellow Grief, that aye pursues His winged steps...
الصفحة 127 - And in the midst of all a fountaine stood, Of richest substance that on earth might bee, So pure and shiny that the silver flood Through every channell running one might see ; Most goodly it with curious ymageree Was overwrought, and shapes of naked boyes, Of which some seemd with lively jollitee To fly about, playing their wanton toyes, Whylest others did themselves embay in liquid joyes.
الصفحة 314 - Large galleries, where piece with piece doth seeme to strive, Of pictures done to life, landskip, and perspective, Thence goodly gardens sees, where antique statues stand In stone and copper, cut by many a...