The Celtic Magazine, Volumen6

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Alexander Mackenzie, Alexander Macgregor, Alexander Macbain
A. and W. Mackenzie, 1881
 

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Página 207 - Queen's Most Excellent Majesty MAY IT PLEASE YOUR MAJESTY We, the undersigned...
Página 349 - Thy spirit, Independence, let me share; , Lord of the lion heart and eagle eye ! Thy steps I follow with my bosom bare, Nor heed the storm that howls along the sky !" " Are not these noble verses ? They are the introduction of Smollet's Ode to Independence.
Página 205 - I sought for merit wherever it was to be found. It is my boast that I was the first minister who looked for it, and found it, in the mountains of the North. I called it forth, and drew into your service a hardy and intrepid race of men...
Página 206 - I AB do swear and as I shall answer to God at the great day of judgment...
Página 285 - They came after that to the other town, and it was pleasing to Columcille, because it was full of God's grace, and he asked of the mormaer, to wit Bede, that he should give it to him ; and he did not give it, and a son of his took an illness after...
Página 285 - Garnait. They made the prayer, and health came to him. After that Columcille gave to Drostan that town and blessed it, and left as his word, " Whosoever should come against it let him not be many yeared (or) victorious." Drostan's tears (deara) came on parting with Columcille. Said Columcille, " Let Dear be its name henceforward.
Página 458 - The more I think, the less I can conceive where you picked up that style.
Página 205 - ... jealousy, became a prey to the artifices of your enemies, and had gone nigh to have overturned the state in the war before the last. These men, in the last war, were brought to combat on your side. They served with fidelity, as they fought with valour, and conquered for you in every part of the world.
Página 97 - There is a freshness, a keenness, a heartiness in many of these productions of the Mountain Minstrel, which seems to breathe naturally of the hungry air, the dark, bleak, rugged bluffs among which they were composed, alternating occasionally with a clear, bewitching, and spiritual quiet, as of the gloaming deepening over the glens and woods. Several of the melodies towards the close of this volume, are full of simple and tender feeling, and not unworthy to take their place by the side of those of...
Página 469 - I will, I will," said Ranald ; " though no other man in the Highlands should draw a sword, I am ready to die for you.

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