Black's Guide Through Edinburgh with Pleasure Excursions in the EnvironsA. and C. Black, 1851 - 192 páginas |
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... Register House , the stranger will now walk along the North Bridge . This bridge was founded in 1763 , and completed in 1769. On the 3d of August in the latter year , the arches of three vaults in the south abutment , in consequence of ...
... Register House , the stranger will now walk along the North Bridge . This bridge was founded in 1763 , and completed in 1769. On the 3d of August in the latter year , the arches of three vaults in the south abutment , in consequence of ...
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... have no wish to cultivate a closer acquaintance . The Register House will again come into view on reaching the Tron Church , thus ter- minating our Second Walk . WALK THIRD . * SCOTT MONUMENT - ROYAL INSTITUTION - 76 WALK SECOND .
... have no wish to cultivate a closer acquaintance . The Register House will again come into view on reaching the Tron Church , thus ter- minating our Second Walk . WALK THIRD . * SCOTT MONUMENT - ROYAL INSTITUTION - 76 WALK SECOND .
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... Register House . from the main apartment by a screen of four pillars , set in pairs , of polished Peterhead granite , of the same order as those of the exterior . Pilasters , in pairs , of the same order and material , are carried round ...
... Register House . from the main apartment by a screen of four pillars , set in pairs , of polished Peterhead granite , of the same order as those of the exterior . Pilasters , in pairs , of the same order and material , are carried round ...
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... Register House down Greenside Street , nothing worthy of remark occurs till we reach the head of LEITH WALK , one of the most splendid roads in the kingdom . Turning to the right at this point , a noble range of buildings , called the ...
... Register House down Greenside Street , nothing worthy of remark occurs till we reach the head of LEITH WALK , one of the most splendid roads in the kingdom . Turning to the right at this point , a noble range of buildings , called the ...
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... Register House , thus terminating our Fourth Walk . The objects of interest in the City being now exhausted , we proceed to introduce the tourist to some spots in the vicinity more particularly worthy of notice . Among these we may ...
... Register House , thus terminating our Fourth Walk . The objects of interest in the City being now exhausted , we proceed to introduce the tourist to some spots in the vicinity more particularly worthy of notice . Among these we may ...
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Página 17 - Lives of the Queens of Scotland, and English Princesses connected with the Regal Succession of Great Britain.
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.