Scottish Notes and QueriesJohn Bulloch, John Alexander Henderson D. Wyllie and Son, 1896 |
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Página 13 - Still, still the victim of affliction ; were you to see the emaciated tigure who now holds the pen to you, you would not know your old friend. Whether I shall ever get about again, is only known to HIM, the Great Unknown, whose creature I am. Alas, Clarke, I begin to fear the worst...
Página 31 - ON THE COUNTESS DOWAGER OF PEMBROKE UNDERNEATH this sable hearse Lies the subject of all verse: Sidney's sister, Pembroke's mother: Death, ere thou hast slain another, Fair, and learned, and good as she, Time shall throw a dart at thee.
Página 138 - Overtook the perpetrators of , the foul Murder of The Keppoch Family, A branch of The powerful and Illustrious Clan Of which His Lordship was The Chief, This Monument Is erected by Colonel Macdonnell of Glengarry, XVII.
Página 79 - ... Royall-Burghs in Scotland. With some Overtures laid before the Nobility and Gentry of the several Shyres in this Kingdom. As also, A Survey of the City of Aberdeen, with the Epigrams of Arthur lohnstoun Doctor of...
Página 84 - Bot off lymmys he wes weill maid, With banys gret and schuldrys braid. His body wes weyll maid and lenye, As thai, that saw hym, said to me. Quhen he wes blyth, he wes lufly 390 And meyk and sweyt in cumpany: Bot, quha in battaill mycht him se, All othir contenance had he.
Página 114 - In prosecution of this general idea, he has treated, in one very short chapter, of a Deaf Man's Dictionary ; and in another, of a Grammar for Deaf Persons ; both of them containing (under the disadvantages of a style uncommonly pedantic and quaint) a variety of precious hints, from which, if I do not deceive myself, useful practical lights might be derived, not only by such as may undertake the instruction of such pupils as Mitchell or...
Página 85 - But he was a priest to us all Of the wonder and bloom of the world, Which we saw with his eyes, and were glad.
Página 165 - THE tropics vanish, and meseems that I, From Halkerside, from topmost Allermuir, Or steep Caerketton, dreaming gaze again. Far set in fields and woods, the town I see Spring gallant from the shallows of her smoke, Cragged, spired, and turreted, her virgin fort Beflagged. About, on seaward-drooping hills, New folds of city glitter. Last, the Forth Wheels ample waters set with sacred isles, And populous Fife smokes with a score of towns.
Página 138 - Alastair, his successor and representative, in the year of our Lord, 1812. The heads of the seven murderers were presented at the feet of the noble Chief in Glengarry Castle, after having been washed in this Spring ; and ever since that event, which took place early in the sixteenth century, it has been known by the name of 'Tobar-nan-Ceann,
Página 13 - Burns's poor widow and half a dozen of his dear little ones, helpless orphans ! there I am weak as a woman's tear.* Enough of this ! 'tis half my disease...