The Scotish Gaël: Or, Celtic Manners, as Preserved Among the Highlanders, Being an Historical and Descriptive Account of the Inhabitants, Antiquities, and National Peculiarities of Scotland; More Particularly of the Northern, Or Gaëlic Parts of the Country, where the Singular Habits of the Aboriginal Celts are Most Tenaciously Retained, المجلد 2Smith, Elder, 1831 |
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الصفحة 162 - And he spake of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall: he spake also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes.
الصفحة 234 - Each verse was so connected with those which preceded or followed it, that if one line had been remembered in a stanza, it was almost impossible to forget the rest. The cadences followed in so natural a gradation, and the words were so adapted to the common turn...
الصفحة 348 - Fame tells) the earth in sounds of woe Is heard to groan from hollow depths below; The baleful yew, though dead, has oft been seen To rise from earth, and spring with dusky green: With sparkling flames the trees unburning shine, And round their boles prodigious serpents twine. The pious worshippers approach not near, But shun their gods, and kneel with distant fear...
الصفحة 397 - Fingal's foes hung curdled in its ooze. Beneath, I placed, at intervals, three bosses from the shields of foes, as rose or fell the sound of Ullin's nightly song. Toscar laid a dagger in earth, a mail of sounding steel. We raised the mould around the stone, and bade it speak to other years.
الصفحة 279 - ... glass on the table, and a servant waiting behind the chair designed for him : the door left wide open. He made his appearance, took a rapid survey of the preparation for him, filled his glass, stepped to the dining-room door, looked full into the room, said, " Mr. Grant, your health and company...
الصفحة 141 - They told me, this was a praiseworthy custom of their country, where everything was in common but the bed. I permitted this to be done for three days ; but on the fourth I ordered the tables to be laid out and covered properly, placing the four kings at an upper table, the minstrels at another below, and the servants lower still. They looked at each other, and refused to eat, saying I had deprived them of their old custom in which they had been brought up.
الصفحة 187 - And if any man believe that this description of the ship be not of verity, as we have written, let him pass to the gate of Tullibardin, and there, before the same, he will see the length and breadth of her planted with hawthorn by the wright that helped to make her.
الصفحة 374 - Autumn is dark on the mountains ; grey mist rests on the hills. The whirlwind is heard on the heath. Dark rolls the river through the narrow plain. A tree stands alone on the hill, and marks the slumbering Connal.
الصفحة 49 - ... from that stag, for if either fear or rage should force him from the ridge of that hill, let every one look to himself, for none of us will be out of the way of harm ; for the rest will follow this one, and, having thrown us under foot, they will open a passage to this hill behind us.
الصفحة 348 - This wood, near neighbouring to the' encompass'd town, Untouch'd by former wars, remain'd alone; And since the country round it naked stands, From hence the Latian chief supplies demands. But lo! the bolder hands, that should have struck, With some unusual horror trembling shook; With silent dread and reverence they...