The Highlands and Western Isles of Scotland, Containing Descriptions of Their Scenery and Antiquities, with an Account of the Political History ...: Present Condition of the People, &c.... Founded on a Series of Annual Journeys Between the Years 1811 and 1821... in Letters to Sir Walter Scott, Bart, Volume 4Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1824 - Hebrides (Scotland) |
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Page 69 - Emathiis quid perdat nescit in arvis. Euganeo, si vera fides memorantibus, augur Colle sedens, Aponus terris ubi fumifer exit, Atque Antenorei dispergitur unda Timavi, " Venit summa dies, geritur res maxima...
Page 302 - Heaven's on their wing : A moment we may wish, When worlds want wealth to buy. Bid day stand still, Bid him drive back his car, and reimport The period past, re-give the given hour.
Page 394 - The depth of the recess is 227 feet, and the breadth at the inner termination 22. The sides within are columnar throughout; the columns being broken and grouped in many different ways, so as to catch a variety of direct and reflected tints, mixed with secondary shadows and deep invisible recesses. As the sea never ebbs entirely out, the only floor of this beautiful cave is the fine green water, reflecting from its white bottom tints which vary and...
Page 353 - And Mab, his merry Queen, by night Bestrides young folks that lie upright (In elder times, the mare that hight), Which plagues them out of measure.
Page 52 - Now have we many chimneys ; and yet our tenderlings complain of rheums, catarrhs, and poses ; then had we none but reredosses, and our heads did never ache.
Page 377 - the accuracy with which the cattle calculate the times of ebb and flood and follow the diurnal variations is such, that they are seldom mistaken, even when they have many miles to walk to the beach. In the same way they always secure their retreat from these insulated spots in such a manner that they are never surprised and drowned.
Page 62 - Sir Walter Scott has most appropriately applied the epithet " dark." Of this island Dr. Macculloch observes: " There is a great deal of stormy magnificence about the lofty cliffs, as there is generally all round the shores of Rum; and they are in most places as abrupt as they are inaccessible from sea. The interior is one heap of rude mountains, scarcely possessing an acre of level land. It is the wildest and most repulsive of all the islands. The outlines of Halival and Haskeval are indeed elegant,...
Page 137 - Il arriverait que chacun n'aurait à dépenfer que vingt écus, l'un portant l'autre, ou qu'il faudrait que la terre rendit le double de ce qu'elle rend ; ou qu'il y aurait le double de pauvres ; ou qu'il faudrait avoir le double...
Page 355 - One Highlander, in passing a mountain, hears the tramp of horses, the music of the horn, and the cheering of the huntsman; when suddenly a gallant crew of thirteen fairy hunters, dressed in green, sweep by him, the silver bosses of their bridles jingling in the night breeze.
Page 421 - ... and 56" 10' north, and between the longitudes 5° 45' and 6' 5' west. The island is a continuous mountain range, elevated towards the south into five distinct points, of which the three principal are called the Paps, and rise to the height of 1083 feet. The...