Black's Guide Through Edinburgh with Pleasure Excursions in the EnvironsA. and C. Black, 1851 - 192 páginas |
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... ancient residence of Scottish Royalty is a hand- some building of a quadrangular form , with a central court ninety - four feet square . Its front is flanked with double castellated towers , imparting to the building that military ...
... ancient residence of Scottish Royalty is a hand- some building of a quadrangular form , with a central court ninety - four feet square . Its front is flanked with double castellated towers , imparting to the building that military ...
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... ancient portion of the present build- ing . In 1822 , previous to the visit of George IV . , some improvements were made in its internal accom- modation , and it has since undergone further repairs , to fit it for the reception of Her ...
... ancient portion of the present build- ing . In 1822 , previous to the visit of George IV . , some improvements were made in its internal accom- modation , and it has since undergone further repairs , to fit it for the reception of Her ...
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... ancient British malediction , ' May you have a cairn for your burial - place . " " - Heart of Mid - Lothian . * " If I were to choose a spot from which the rising or setting sun could be seen to the greatest possible advantage , it ...
... ancient British malediction , ' May you have a cairn for your burial - place . " " - Heart of Mid - Lothian . * " If I were to choose a spot from which the rising or setting sun could be seen to the greatest possible advantage , it ...
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... which has now super- seded the winding footpath above described , was suggested by this glowing eulogy of the surrounding landscape . ing group of houses , which , in ancient times. WHITE HORSE CLOSE . 29 White Horse Close.
... which has now super- seded the winding footpath above described , was suggested by this glowing eulogy of the surrounding landscape . ing group of houses , which , in ancient times. WHITE HORSE CLOSE . 29 White Horse Close.
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... ancient times , was a well - frequented hostelrie . The White Horse Inn is understood to be the oldest place of the ... ancient burgh regarded the prison as the surest avenue to heaven . A little farther up the street , on the left , is ...
... ancient times , was a well - frequented hostelrie . The White Horse Inn is understood to be the oldest place of the ... ancient burgh regarded the prison as the surest avenue to heaven . A little farther up the street , on the left , is ...
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Página 16 - The Moor and the Loch. Containing Minute Instructions in all Highland Sports, with Wanderings over Crag and Corrie, Flood and Fell. By JOHN COLQUHOUN.
Página 127 - That Castle rises on the steep Of the green vale of Tyne : And far beneath, where slow they creep From pool to eddy, dark and deep, Where alders moist and willows weep, You hear her streams repine. The towers in different ages rose ; Their various architecture shows The builders' various hands ; A mighty mass,-that could oppose, When deadliest hatred fired its foes, The vengeful Douglas bands.
Página 115 - O'er Roslin all that dreary night A wondrous blaze was seen to gleam; 'Twas broader than the watch-fire's light, And redder than the bright moon-beam. It glared on Roslin's castled rock, It ruddied all the copse-wood glen, 'Twas seen from Dryden's groves of oak, And seen from cavern'd Hawthornden.
Página 115 - Blazed battlement and pinnet high, Blazed every rose-carved buttress fair, So still they blaze, when fate is nigh The lordly line of high St. Clair.
Página 115 - There are twenty of Roslin's barons bold Lie buried within that proud chapelle; Each one the holy vault doth hold But...
Página 107 - Still on the spot Lord Marmion stay'd, For fairer scene he ne'er survey'd. When sated with the martial show That peopled all the plain below, The wandering eye could o'er it go, And mark the distant city glow With gloomy splendour red ; For on the smoke-wreaths, huge and slow, That round her sable turrets flow, The morning beams were shed, And tinged them with a...
Página 25 - Whether, indeed, we take him as a poet, — as a comic writer, — or as an historian, he stands in the first class.
Página 29 - ... divided from, each other, in every possible variety which can gratify the eye and the imagination. When a piece of scenery so beautiful, yet so varied, — so exciting by its intricacy, and yet so sublime, — is lighted up by the tints of morning or of I evening, and displays all that variety of shadowy depth, exchanged with partial brilliancy, which gives character even to the tamest of landscapes, the effect approaches near to enchantment.
Página 17 - Every step in Scotland Is historical; the shades of the dead arise on every side; the very rocks breathe. Miss Strickland's talents as a writer, and turn of mind as an individual, in a peculiar manner fit her for painting a historical gallery of the most illustrious or dignified female characters in that land of chivalry and song."— Mtackwwid'e Mayasiite.