Sports and Adventures in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland: Being a Sequel to the "Wild Sports of the West"George Routledge, 1853 - 352 pagina's |
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Pagina 177 - Front, flank, and rear, the squadrons sweep To break the Scottish circle deep, That fought around their king But yet, though thick the shafts as snow, Though charging knights like whirlwinds go? Though bill-men ply the ghastly blow, Unbroken was the ring ; The stubborn spearmen still made good Their dark impenetrable wood, Each stepping where his comrade stood, The instant that he fell.
Pagina 58 - Caledonia ! stern and wild, meet nurse for a poetic child, • land of brown heath and shaggy wood, land of the mountain and the flood, land of my sires!
Pagina 226 - Lylliard lies under this stane, Little was her stature, but great was her fame ; Upon the English louns she laid mony thumps, And when her legs were cutted off, she fought upon her stumps.
Pagina 242 - The tide did now its flood-mark gain, And girdled in the Saint's domain : For, with the flow and ebb, its style Varies from continent to isle ; Dry-shod, o'er sands, twice every day, The pilgrims to the shrine find way ; Twice every day, the waves efface Of staves and sandall'd feet the trace.
Pagina 177 - Above the brightening cloud appears; And in the smoke the pennons flew, As in the storm the white sea-mew. Then marked they, dashing broad and far, The broken billows of the war, And plumed crests of chieftains brave, Floating like foam upon the wave; But...
Pagina 73 - I digged down in the ground betwixt the two foremost of these seits, and layed it down within the case of it, and covered it up, as that removing the superfluous mould it could not be discerned by any body ; and if it shall please God to call me by death before they be called for, your Ladyship will find them in that place.
Pagina 273 - Almost every man in their front rank, chief and gentleman, fell before the deadly weapons which they had braved ; and although the enemy gave way, it was not till every bayonet was bent and bloody with the strife.
Pagina 219 - Doubt thou the stars are fire ; Doubt that the sun doth move ; Doubt truth to be a liar ; But never doubt I love.
Pagina 236 - And for evermore that lady wore A covering on her wrist. There is a Nun " in Dryburgh bower, Ne'er looks upon the sun : There is a Monk in Melrose tower. He speaketh word to none. That Nun, who ne'er beholds the day, That Monk, who speaks to none — That Nun was Smaylho'me's Lady gay, That Monk the bold Baron.
Pagina 74 - ... of Dunnottar immediately before it wes rendered to the English usurpers, and that be the care of the same wes hid and preserved : Thairfore the King's Majestic, with advice of his Estates in Parliament, doe appoint two thousand merks Scots to be forthwith paid unto her be his Majestie's thesaurer, out of the readiest of his Majestie's rents, as a testimony of their sense of her service.