Black's Guide Through Edinburgh with Pleasure Excursions in the EnvironsA. and C. Black, 1851 - 192 páginas |
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... by which seve- ral others fell , and the scene of violence only closed when Porteous and his soldiers reached the guard - house in the High Street . for witchcraft in 1670 , is situate behind the houses 60 WALK SECOND .
... by which seve- ral others fell , and the scene of violence only closed when Porteous and his soldiers reached the guard - house in the High Street . for witchcraft in 1670 , is situate behind the houses 60 WALK SECOND .
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... scene of the drama . A drum was heard beating to arms , and the populace promptly answered its summons by turning out into the streets . Their numbers rapidly increased , and , separating into different parties , they took pos- session ...
... scene of the drama . A drum was heard beating to arms , and the populace promptly answered its summons by turning out into the streets . Their numbers rapidly increased , and , separating into different parties , they took pos- session ...
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... There can be little doubt , however , that many of the participators in that night's transactions were of a class unaccustomed to mingle in scenes of vulgar tumult . 66 under temporary derangement , or whether he was in 62 WALK SECOND .
... There can be little doubt , however , that many of the participators in that night's transactions were of a class unaccustomed to mingle in scenes of vulgar tumult . 66 under temporary derangement , or whether he was in 62 WALK SECOND .
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... scene of the appalling atrocities of the monster Burke , whose name has added a word to the language , burking being now a synonyme for strangling . In the murder of his victims , his object was not to possess himself of their property ...
... scene of the appalling atrocities of the monster Burke , whose name has added a word to the language , burking being now a synonyme for strangling . In the murder of his victims , his object was not to possess himself of their property ...
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... scene of the appalling atrocities of the monster Burke , whose name has added a word to the language , burking being now a synonyme for strangling . In the murder of his victims , his object was not to possess himself of their property ...
... scene of the appalling atrocities of the monster Burke , whose name has added a word to the language , burking being now a synonyme for strangling . In the murder of his victims , his object was not to possess himself of their property ...
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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.