The Celtic Monthly: A Magazine for Highlanders, Volumen17A. Sinclair, 1909 |
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Página 209 - 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 — men who, when left by your 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.
Página 53 - The foe! They come! They come!" And wild and high the "Cameron's gathering" rose! The war-note of Lochiel, which Albyn's hills Have heard, and heard, too, have her Saxon foes: — How in the noon of night that pibroch thrills, Savage and shrill! But with the breath which fills Their...
Página 209 - I called it forth, and drew into your service a hardy and intrepid race of men — men, who, when left by your 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 valor, and conquered for you in every part of the world.
Página 53 - Cameron's gathering' rose, The war-note of Lochiel, which Albyn's hills Have heard, and heard, too, have her Saxon foes: — How in the noon of night that pibroch thrills Savage and shrill! But with the breath which fills Their mountain-pipe, so fill the mountaineers With the fierce native daring which instils The stirring memory of a thousand years, And Evan's, Donald's fame rings in each clansman's ears!
Página 34 - Alas! they had been friends in youth; But whispering tongues can poison truth; And constancy lives in realms above; And life is thorny; and youth is vain; And to be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain.
Página 235 - I'll be in Scotland afore ye ; But me and my true love will never meet again On the bonnie, bonnie banks o
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Página 31 - Sir," said he, with some warmth, " you did very wrong, in forbidding the pipers to play this morning ; nothing encourages the Highlanders so much in the day of action. Nay, even now they would be of use." — " Let them blow like the devil, then," replies the general, " if it will bring back the men.
Página 177 - ... most hideous and distorted appearance. ' But it happens here, as in some pictures. Looked at with the naked eye, ' they are a perfect mass of confusion ; but the moment you look through ' a lens constructed to unite the scattered lines in a proper focus, they ' show regularity and even beauty. My favourite lens is a virtuous man : ' it brings into harmony the discordant parts of the moral world.
Página 75 - In halls of joy, and in scenes of mourning, it has prevailed; it has animated her warriors in battle, and welcomed them back after their toils, to the homes of their love and the hills of their nativity. Its strains were the first sounded on the ears of infancy, and they are the last to be forgotten in the wanderings of age. Even Highlanders will allow that it is not the gentlest of instruments; but when far from their mountain homes, what sounds, however melodious, could thrill round their heart...