The Picture of Scotland, Volume 2William Tait, 1828 |
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... ancient Roman name is supposed to have been Vanduaria . The remains of this camp or station are yet visible to the south - west of the town . But by far the most interesting monument of anti- quity of which Paisley can boast , is ...
... ancient Roman name is supposed to have been Vanduaria . The remains of this camp or station are yet visible to the south - west of the town . But by far the most interesting monument of anti- quity of which Paisley can boast , is ...
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... ancient part of the town which surrounds them , is such as to justify Sir Walter Scott's finely picturesque line , referring to Claud Hamilton , the last abbot and first temporal superior- Grey Paisley's haughty lord was he . After ...
... ancient part of the town which surrounds them , is such as to justify Sir Walter Scott's finely picturesque line , referring to Claud Hamilton , the last abbot and first temporal superior- Grey Paisley's haughty lord was he . After ...
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... ancient and still popular name of Lothian . Linlithgowshire is the smallest , and in every respect least important of the three divisions of Lothian , from the rest of which it is distinguished by the epithet West Lothian . Only nine ...
... ancient and still popular name of Lothian . Linlithgowshire is the smallest , and in every respect least important of the three divisions of Lothian , from the rest of which it is distinguished by the epithet West Lothian . Only nine ...
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... ancient , we shall commence with a description of it , and then proceed to the rest in order of seniority . The lower flat of this portion of the edifice is a range of vaults , similar to those which are always found at the bot- tom of ...
... ancient , we shall commence with a description of it , and then proceed to the rest in order of seniority . The lower flat of this portion of the edifice is a range of vaults , similar to those which are always found at the bot- tom of ...
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... ancient court lady , either for love or loyalty , sat con- stantly above the trap - door , concealing the place by her wide - spreading skirts , and all the time affecting to be only employed in her ordinary business of spinning from ...
... ancient court lady , either for love or loyalty , sat con- stantly above the trap - door , concealing the place by her wide - spreading skirts , and all the time affecting to be only employed in her ordinary business of spinning from ...
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Aberdeen ancient antiquity appearance beautiful Borthwick Castle bridge Bruce building built Caithness called castle cathedral celebrated century chapel church coast Crieff curiosity Dalkeith House distance district Dunbar Dundee Dunfermline Earl east edifice Edinburgh eminence erected extremity Falkland feet Fife Firth Forfar formed formerly fortress ground Haddington harbour Highlands hill inhabitants Inverkeithing Inverness island James James VI King lady lake land Linlithgow Loch Loch Katrine Loch Lomond Lord miles modern Moray Muthil neighbourhood neighbouring object occupied Paisley palace parish pass person Perth Perthshire Peterhead Pinkie House possessed present Queen remarkable residence rising river road rock Roman royal burgh ruins scene scenery Scot Scotland Scottish seat shore side singular situated spot St Andrews Stirling stone stranger street supposed tion tourist tower town tradition traveller vale village wall whole wild wood
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Página 388 - The Cypress and her spire; —Of flowers that with one scarlet gleam Cover a hundred leagues, and seem To set the hills on fire. The Youth of green savannahs spake, And many an endless, endless lake, With all its fairy crowds Of islands, that together lie As quietly as spots of sky Among the evening clouds.
Página 337 - Boon nature scatter'd, free and wild, Each plant or flower, the mountain's child. Here eglantine embalm'd the air, Hawthorn and hazel mingled there ; The primrose pale and violet flower, Found in each cliff a narrow bower...
Página 31 - Sir king, my mother hath sent me to you, desiring you not to pass, at this time, where thou art purposed ; for if thou does, thou wilt not fare well in thy journey, nor none that passeth with thee. Further, she bade...
Página 406 - We were now treading that illustrious island, which was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge, and the blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible if it were endeavoured, and would be foolish if it were possible. Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses ; whatever makes the past, the distant, or...
Página 338 - Where glistening streamers waved and danced, The wanderer's eye could barely view The summer heaven's delicious blue ; So wondrous wild, the whole might seem The scenery of a fairy dream.
Página 339 - Where, gleaming with the setting sun, One burnished sheet of living gold, Loch- Katrine lay beneath him rolled ; 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.
Página 16 - Of all the palaces so fair, Built for the royal dwelling In Scotland, far beyond compare Linlithgow is excelling; And in its park in jovial June, How sweet the merry linnet's tune, How blithe the blackbird's lay ! The wild buck bells from ferny brake, The coot dives merry on the lake, The saddest heart might pleasure take To see all nature gay.
Página 337 - Aloft, the ash and warrior oak Cast anchor in the rifted rock ; And, higher yet, the pine-tree hung His shatter'd trunk, and frequent flung, Where seem'd the cliffs to meet on high, His boughs athwart the narrow'd sky.
Página 160 - ... him : I'm feared it was the thing that's no canny." " Fiend nor he had ta'en the girnin brat clean awa !" said King James, whose demonological learning made him at once see the truth of the nurse's observation ;
Página 95 - ... imprisoned here for some time ; James V. resided there occasionally during his minority ; and, in the eventful 1566, Queen Mary resided there, and held, with her deceitful and double-dealing counsellors, some of those dark and mysterious councils which terminated in Darnley's death, and her own ruin. So often had Craigmillar been honoured with her residence, that the adjacent village acquired the name of Petty France, from her French guards being quartered there. In point of architecture and...