'Land of the mountain and the flood': Scottish scenes and scenery delineatedWesleyan Conference Office, 1879 - 224 páginas |
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'Land of the Mountain and the Flood': Scottish Scenes and Scenery Delineated Jabez Marrat Sin vista previa disponible - 2015 |
Términos y frases comunes
Abbey Abbey Craig Aberdeen ancient Andrews Anwoth arches banks beautiful blue bridge building castle cathedral chapel church cliffs Clyde Columba Covenanters crags Crown 8vo Culdees dark death Dunbar Dundee Earl Edinburgh embowered feet Firth foliage George Wishart Glasgow glen glories gorgeous gothic grandeur grassy green heart height Highland hills HOLYROOD PALACE honour Hugh Miller hundred Illustrations Iona island islets James James IV king KYLES OF BUTE labours lake land Loch LOCH DUICH Loch Fyne Loch Leven lofty Lord magnificent memory miles monument Moray Firth mountains noble o'er palace parish pass Perth picturesque pillars Portessie preached precipices Queen Quirang rich river rock romantic roof royal rugged ruins scene scenery Scotland Scott Scottish shadow Shetland shore side slopes splendour stands steep Stirling stone stream Street sublimity sweep tower town trees walk walls waters waves wild window woods
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Página 121 - These trees, a veil just half withdrawn; This fall of water, that doth make A murmur near the silent lake...
Página 65 - The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them; and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose. It shall blossom abundantly, and rejoice even with joy and singing: the glory of Lebanon shall be given unto it, the excellency of Carmel and Shar'on, they shall see the glory of the LORD, and the excellency of our God.
Página 42 - The moon on the east oriel shone Through slender shafts of shapely stone, By foliaged tracery combined; Thou wouldst 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 212 - Hath rent a strange and shatter'd way Through the rude bosom of the hill, And that each naked precipice, Sable ravine, and dark abyss, Tells of the outrage still. The wildest glen, but this, can show Some touch of Nature's genial glow ; On high...
Página 89 - While, lightly poised, the scaly brood In myriads cleave thy crystal flood ; The springing trout in speckled pride, The salmon, monarch of the tide ; The ruthless pike, intent on war, The silver eel, and mottled par. Devolving from thy parent lake, A charming maze thy waters make...
Página 43 - Showed many a prophet and many a saint, Whose image on the glass was dyed ; Full in the midst, his cross of red Triumphant Michael brandished, And trampled the Apostate's pride. The moonbeam kissed the holy pane, And threw on the pavement a bloodv stain. XII. They sate them down on a marble stone...
Página 43 - 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 73 - OH ! weep for those that wept by Babel's stream, Whose shrines are desolate, whose land a dream : Weep for the harp of Judah's broken shell ; Mourn — where their God hath dwelt the godless dwell ! And where shall Israel lave her bleeding feet ? And when shall Zion's songs again seem sweet? • And Judah's melody once more rejoice The hearts that leap'd before its heavenly voice ? Tribes of the wandering foot and weary breast, How shall ye flee away and be at rest!
Página 45 - For Thou, upon a hundred streams, By tales of love and sorrow, Of faithful love, undaunted truth, Hast shed the power of Yarrow...
Página 42 - They entered now the chancel tall; The darkened roof rose high aloof On pillars lofty and light and small; The keystone, that locked each ribbed aisle, Was a fleur-de-lys, or a quatre-feuille : The corbells were carved grotesque and grim : And the pillars, with clustered shafts so trim, With base and with capital flourished around, Seemed bundles of lances which garlands had bound.