The picture of ScotlandWilliam Tait, 1827 |
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Strana viii
... towers of venerable ruins , once the honoured abodes of her heroes . " In order to secure an acquaintance with every remarkable locality , and with its popular legends , I carried letters from my city friends , giving me a claim upon ...
... towers of venerable ruins , once the honoured abodes of her heroes . " In order to secure an acquaintance with every remarkable locality , and with its popular legends , I carried letters from my city friends , giving me a claim upon ...
Strana 42
... tower which surmounts the building is a fine object , and gives great additional beauty to the external aspect of the town . Dunse , which contains about three thousand inhabi- tants , is not a manufacturing town , though deriving ...
... tower which surmounts the building is a fine object , and gives great additional beauty to the external aspect of the town . Dunse , which contains about three thousand inhabi- tants , is not a manufacturing town , though deriving ...
Strana 46
... - like remains of the tower are yet to be seen , by the travellers passing along this unfrequented road , far up the dreary hope ; and a flat stone covering 1 LAMERTON KIRK . 47 the grave of the unfortunate lady Lammermuir .
... - like remains of the tower are yet to be seen , by the travellers passing along this unfrequented road , far up the dreary hope ; and a flat stone covering 1 LAMERTON KIRK . 47 the grave of the unfortunate lady Lammermuir .
Strana 55
... tower called Colbrandspath ( pronounced Coppersmith ) Castle . This was another of those passes so important at a time when the wood- ed state of the country , and other causes , compelled in- vading armies , as well as single ...
... tower called Colbrandspath ( pronounced Coppersmith ) Castle . This was another of those passes so important at a time when the wood- ed state of the country , and other causes , compelled in- vading armies , as well as single ...
Strana 57
... towers , -John's cleuch , Gamelshiel , Painshiel , Redpath , Harehead , and Cranshaws . The last is one of the very few such buildings which are still kept in repair ; all the rest are in ruins . Cranshaws Castle is the principal ob ...
... towers , -John's cleuch , Gamelshiel , Painshiel , Redpath , Harehead , and Cranshaws . The last is one of the very few such buildings which are still kept in repair ; all the rest are in ruins . Cranshaws Castle is the principal ob ...
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Abbey ancient appearance Ayrshire bank beautiful Berwick bridge built burgh Burns called Castle celebrated century character church church-yard Clyde cross curious district Drumelzier Dumfries Dumfriesshire Dunse Earl Earlstoun edifice Edinburgh eminence erected Ettrick formed former formerly fortress Galashiels Galloway Glasgow ground haugh Hawick Hermitage Hermitage Castle hills inhabitants James James Blaikie Jedburgh king Kirkcudbright lady laird Lammermuir land Langholm Lauderdale Liddisdale Loch Lochmaben Lord Melrose MELROSE ABBEY Merse miles mountain Neidpath Castle neighbourhood neighbouring object occasion once parish Peebles Peeblesshire Polwarth possesses present remarkable residence Rhymer river road Roxburghshire royal burgh ruins scene scenery Scot Scotland Scottish seat seems seen Selkirk Selkirkshire side singular situated Solway spot St Mary's Loch stone stream street THOMAS THE RHYMER tion tower town Town-heid tradition trees Tweed vale village whole wild wood worthy Yarrow
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Strana 122 - 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 ; When distant Tweed is heard to rave, And the owlet to hoot o'er the dead man's grave, Then go— but go alone the while — Then view St. David's ruined pile ; And, home' returning, soothly swear, Was never scene so sad and fair ! II.
Strana 158 - But thou, that didst appear so fair To fond imagination, Dost rival in the light of day Her delicate creation : Meek loveliness is round thee spread, A softness still and holy ; The grace of forest charms decayed, And pastoral melancholy.
Strana 121 - If thou wouldst view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moonlight ; For the gay beams of lightsome day Gild, but to flout, the ruins gray. 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...
Strana 157 - O that some Minstrel's harp were near, To utter notes of gladness, And chase this silence from the air, That fills my heart with sadness...
Strana 120 - Greece, but living Greece no more ! So coldly sweet, so deadly fair, We start, for soul is wanting there. Hers is the loveliness in death, That parts not quite with parting breath ; But beauty with that fearful bloom, That hue which haunts it to the tomb ; Expression's last receding ray, A gilded halo hovering round decay, The farewell beam of Feeling past away!
Strana viii - I have no dearer aim than to have it in my power, unplagued with the routine of business, for which heaven knows I am unfit enough, to make leisurely pilgrimages through Caledonia ; to sit on the fields of her battles ; to wander on the romantic banks of her rivers ; and to muse by the stately towers or venerable ruins, once the honoured abodes of her heroes.
Strana 159 - The sober hills thus deck their brows To meet the wintry season. I see — but not by sight alone, Loved Yarrow, have I won thee; A ray of Fancy still survives — Her sunshine plays upon thee...
Strana 82 - SWEET TEVIOT ! on thy silver tide The glaring bale-fires blaze no more ; No longer steel-clad warriors ride Along thy wild and willowed shore ; Where'er thou wind'st, by dale or hill, All, all is peaceful, all is still, As if thy waves, since Time was born, Since first they rolled upon the Tweed, Had only heard the shepherd's reed, Nor started at the bugle-horn.
Strana 122 - 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 ozier wand, In many a freakish knot, had twined ; Then framed a spell, when the work was done, And changed the willow wreaths to stone.
Strana 98 - Lylliard lies under this stane, Little was her stature, but great was her fame ; Upon the English louns she laid mony thumps, And when her legs were cutted off, she fought upon her stumps.