Black's Picturesque Tourist of ScotlandA. and C. Black, 1878 - 642 páginas |
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... containing the first residences of David Hume the historian , and Boswell , the biographer of Johnson . The houses of ... contains the lodging first occupied by Robert Burns in 1786. The next year he removed to No. 30 St. James ' Square ...
... containing the first residences of David Hume the historian , and Boswell , the biographer of Johnson . The houses of ... contains the lodging first occupied by Robert Burns in 1786. The next year he removed to No. 30 St. James ' Square ...
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... contains the original brass plate ( which had been preserved at Donnibristle House ) , bearing a Latin inscription composed by George Buchanan : -23 Ianvarii 1569 . The nave ( now called the New North Church ). GROUND - PLAN OF ST ...
... contains the original brass plate ( which had been preserved at Donnibristle House ) , bearing a Latin inscription composed by George Buchanan : -23 Ianvarii 1569 . The nave ( now called the New North Church ). GROUND - PLAN OF ST ...
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... contains the most valuable collection of books in Scotland , the printed works amounting to some 200,000 volumes , including exceed- * The legal profession is divided into the following classes : -1 . Thirteen Judges of the Court of ...
... contains the most valuable collection of books in Scotland , the printed works amounting to some 200,000 volumes , including exceed- * The legal profession is divided into the following classes : -1 . Thirteen Judges of the Court of ...
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... contains upwards of 50,000 volumes , and is supported exclusively by the contributions of the Writers to Her Majesty's Signet ( attorneys ) . Strangers are admitted only by order of a member . The County Hall , also in Parliament Square ...
... contains upwards of 50,000 volumes , and is supported exclusively by the contributions of the Writers to Her Majesty's Signet ( attorneys ) . Strangers are admitted only by order of a member . The County Hall , also in Parliament Square ...
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... contains two large pieces of ancient tapestry , a portrait of James , fourth Duke of Hamilton , and others . QUEEN MARY'S APARTMENTS are the most interesting in the palace , and remain to some extent in the same state as when last ...
... contains two large pieces of ancient tapestry , a portrait of James , fourth Duke of Hamilton , and others . QUEEN MARY'S APARTMENTS are the most interesting in the palace , and remain to some extent in the same state as when last ...
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Abbey Aberdeen Aberfeldy ancient Ardrishaig Argyll Ballachulish Ballater bank Bart beautiful Braemar Bridge Brodick building built burgh Burns Caledonian called cathedral chapel Clyde coach coast contains Crieff cross distance district Duke Dundee Dunoon Earl east Edinburgh entrance erected farther feet in height Firth Glasgow Glen granite Greenock ground Hall head Highland hill Hotel House Inveraray Inverness island James King lake late Loch Awe Loch Fyne Loch Lomond Loch Long Lochnagar Lomond Lord mansion miles Montrose monument Moray mountains neighbourhood North British Railway Oban occupied old castle palace parish church pass Perth picturesque pier Prince principal Queen railway residence rises river road rock Roman route royal ruins scene scenery Scotland Scott Scottish seat seen shore situated square stands station steamer Stirling stone style summit tourist tower town transept village walls Wemyss Bay window wooded
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Página 108 - When the broken arches are black in night, And each shafted oriel glimmers white ; When the cold light's uncertain shower Streams on the ruin'd central tower; When buttress and buttress, alternately, Seem framed of ebon and ivory; When silver edges the imagery, And the scrolls that teach thee to live and die...
Página 432 - THOU lingering star, with lessening ray, That lov'st to greet the early morn, Again thou usher'st in the day My Mary from my soul was torn. O Mary! dear departed shade! Where is thy place of blissful rest? See'st thou thy lover lowly laid? Hear'st thou the groans that rend his breast?
Página 363 - 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 : Yet, Caledonia, beloved are thy mountains, Round their white summits though elements war ; Though cataracts foam 'stead of smooth-flowing fountains, I sigh for the valley of dark Loch na Garr.
Página 169 - Sent forth a sleepy horror through the blood ; And where this valley winded out, below, The murmuring main was heard, and scarcely heard, to flow.
Página 86 - Clair. There are twenty of Roslin's barons bold Lie buried within that proud chapelle; Each one the holy vault doth hold— But the sea holds lovely Rosabelle. And each St Clair was buried there, With candle, with book, and with knell ; But the sea-caves rung, and the wild winds sung, The dirge of lovely Rosabelle ! XXIV.
Página 352 - Auld Lang Syne" brings Scotland, one and all, Scotch plaids, Scotch snoods, the blue hills, and clear streams, The Dee, the Don, Balgounie's brig's black 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.
Página 425 - Big with the vanity of state; But transient is the smile of fate! A little rule, a little sway, A sunbeam in a winter's day, Is all the proud and mighty have Between the cradle and the grave.
Página 95 - The extraordinary medical reports on the efficacy of Chlorodyne render it of vital importance that the public should obtain the genuine, which bears the words "Dr. J. Collis Browne's Chlorodyne.
Página 329 - Had floated that bell on the Inchcape rock; On the waves of the storm it floated and swung, And louder and louder its warning rung. When the rock was hid by the tempest's swell, The mariners heard the warning bell ; And then they knew the perilous rock, And blessed the priest of Aberbrothok.
Página 352 - auld town' of Aberdeen, with its one arch and its black deep salmon stream, is in my memory as yesterday. I still remember, though perhaps I may misquote the awful proverb which made me pause to cross it, and yet lean over it with a childish delight, being an only son, at least by the mother's side. The saying, as recollected by me, was this, but I have never heard or seen it since I was nine years of age: — " ' Brig of Balgounie, black 's your wa', Wi' a wife*s ae son, and a mear's ae foal, Down...