Modern Athens! Displayed in a Series of Views: Or Edinburgh in the Nineteenth Century: Exhibiting the Whole of the New Buildings, Modern Improvements, Antiquities, and Picturesque Scenery, of the Scottish Metropolis and Its Environs,Jones & Company Temple of the Muses, Finsbury Square., 1829 - 86 páginas |
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Modern Athens! Displayed in a Series of Views: Or Edinburgh in the ... John Britton Vista completa - 1829 |
Modern Athens!: Displayed in a Series of Views: Or, Edinburgh in the ... John Britton Vista completa - 1829 |
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Página 52 - ... moments. The Earl of Morton, who was present at his funeral, pronounced his eulogium in a few words, the more honourable for Knox, as they came from one whom he had often censured with peculiar severity : " There lies he, who never feared the face of man.
Página 67 - When the broken arches are black in night, And each shafted oriel glimmers white; When the cold light's uncertain shower Streams on the ruined central tower; When buttress and buttress, alternately, Seem framed of ebon and ivory ; When silver edges the imagery, And the scrolls that teach thee to live and die...
Página 52 - Rigid and uncomplying himself, he showed no indulgence to the infirmities of others. Regardless of the distinctions of rank and character, he uttered his admonitions with an acrimony and vehemence, more apt to irritate than to reclaim.
Página 41 - Covenanters during the civil wars—the stool thrown by Jenny Geddes at the head of the dean of Edinburgh, when he first attempted to read the liturgy appointed by Charles the First for the use of the Scottish Church— and the maiden, or guillotine, with which the regent Morton was beheaded in 1581, and with which Sir George Gordon of Haddo, the Earls of Montrose and Argyle, and others of inferior note, were put to death, previous to the revolution in 1745. The Society published the first volume...
Página 52 - Those very qualities, however, which now render his character less amiable, fitted him to be the instrument of Providence for advancing the Reformation among a fierce people...
Página 67 - The moon on the east oriel shone, Through slender shafts of shapely stone, By foliaged tracery combined ; Thou would'st have thought some fairy's hand, 'Twixt poplars straight, the osier wand, In many a freakish knot had twined ; Then framed a spell, when the work was done, And changed the willow- wreaths to stone.
Página 39 - Plummer, at the same time, were appointed Secretaries. A few years afterwards, the meetings of the Society were interrupted for a considerable space of time by the disorders of the country, in the rebellion of 1745 ; and no sooner was public tranquillity re-established, than it suffered a severe loss by the death of Mr. Maclaurin, whose comprehensive genius, and ardour in the pursuits of science, peculiarly qualified him for conducting the business of such an Institution. The meetings of the society...