A Tour in Scotland and Voyage to the Hebrides, 1772, Deel 2B. White, 1776 |
Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
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Pagina 269 - Are brought ; and feel by turns the bitter change Of fierce extremes, extremes by change more fierce, From beds of raging fire to starve in ice...
Pagina 277 - I feel not in myself those common antipathies that I can discover in others: those national repugnances do not touch me, nor do I behold with prejudice the French, Italian, Spaniard, or Dutch...
Pagina 277 - I was born in the eighth climate, but seem to be framed and constellated unto all. I am no plant that will not prosper out of a garden. All places, all airs, make unto me one country; I am in England everywhere, and under any meridian.
Pagina 64 - In the year 1563, the Earl of Athol, a prince of the blood royal, had, with much trouble and vast expense, a hunting match for the entertainment of our most illustrious and most gracious queen. Our people call this a royal hunting. I was then a young man, and was present on that occasion. Two thousand Highlanders, or wild Scotch, as you call them here, were employed to drive to the hunting...
Pagina 65 - ... time they brought together two thousand red deer, besides roes and fallow deer. The Queen, the great men, and a number of others were in a glen when all these deer were brought before them ; believe me the whole body moved forward in something like battle order. This...
Pagina 269 - To lie in cold obftruction, and to rot; This fenfible warm motion to become A kneaded clod ; and the delighted fpirit To bathe in fiery floods...
Pagina 65 - Earl's (who had been accustomed to such sights) addressing her thus, ' Do you observe that stag who is foremost of the herd? There is danger from that stag, for if either fear or rage should force him from the ridge of that hill, let every one look to himself, for none of us will be out of the way of harm; for the rest will follow this one, and, having thrown us under foot, they will open a passage to this hill behind us.
Pagina 65 - What happened a moment after confirmed this opinion: for the queen ordered one of the best dogs to be let loose...
Pagina 69 - With rosy lustre streak'd the dewy lawn, Again the mournful crowds surround the pyre, And quench with wine the yet remaining fire. The snowy bones his friends and brothers place (With tears collected) in a golden vase ; . The golden vase in purple palls they roll'd, Of softest texture, and inwrought with gold.
Pagina 209 - He was a braw gallant, And he play'd at the ba'; And the bonny Earl of Murray Was the flower amang -them a...