The Scottish Tourist and Itinerary; Or, A Guide to the Scenery and Antiquities of Scotland and the Western Islands: With a Description of the Principal Steam-boat Tours ...Stirling, Kenney & Company, 1836 - 418 pages |
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Abbey Aberfeldy ancient appearance arches Argyll Atholl banks Bart beautiful Berwick breadth bridge Bridge of Earn built burgh of barony called Carse of Gowrie Castle cave celebrated chapel church Clyde coast Crook of Devon crosses Dalmally delightful descends distance Duke Dumbarton Dunkeld Earl east Edinburgh elegant English erected fall ferry four miles Frith Glasgow glen ground half a mile height Highland hill House Inverary Inverness island Isles James Kerrera King lake Lanark land Loch lofty Lord magnificent mansion miles farther mountains neighbourhood North Queensferry Oban opposite parish Perth picturesque proceeds Queen residence rising river road passes Robert Bruce rock romantic royal burgh ruins Rumbling Bridge scene scenery Scotland Scots Scottish seat seen shore situate Staffa stands Stirling stone stream summit surrounded three miles Tourist tower town Tweed valley village westward woods
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Page 267 - We were now treading that illustrious island, which was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge, and the blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible, if it were endeavoured, and would be foolish, if it were possible. Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses ; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity...
Page 145 - Arcadian plain. Pure stream ! in whose transparent wave My youthful limbs I wont to lave ; No torrents stain thy limpid source ; No rocks impede thy dimpling course, That sweetly warbles o'er its bed, With white round...
Page 71 - Have, then, thy wish!"— he whistled shrill, And he was answered from the hill ; Wild as the scream of the curlew, From crag to crag the signal flew. Instant, through copse and heath, arose Bonnets, and spears, and bended bows ; On right, on left, above, below, Sprung up at once the lurking foe...
Page 274 - After the revocation of the Edict of Nantes by Louis XIV., in 1685, the most cruel and protracted persecutions commenced against the Protestants of France.
Page 138 - KIND friends, neighbors hospitable, cordial, even respectful, — an ancient name, a large estate, and a sufficient fortune, a comfortable home, supplied with all the necessaries and many of the luxuries of life, and a troop of servants, black and white, eager to do your bidding ; good health, affectionate children, and, let us humbly add, a good cook, cellar, and library — ought not a person...
Page 71 - From crag to crag the signal flew. Instant, through copse and heath, arose Bonnets and spears and bended bows : On right, on left, above, below, Sprung up at once the lurking foe : From shingles...
Page 227 - AMONG the heathy hills and ragged woods The roaring Fyers pours his mossy floods ; Till full he dashes on the rocky mounds, Where, through a shapeless breach, his stream resounds.
Page 227 - Where, through a shapeless breach, his stream resounds. As high in air the bursting torrents flow, As deep recoiling surges foam below ; Prone down the rock the whitening sheet descends, And viewless Echo's ear, astonished, rends. Dim seen, through rising mists and ceaseless showers, The hoary cavern, wide surrounding, lowers ; Still through the gap the struggling river toils, And still below, the horrid caldron boils...
Page 145 - 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, By bowers of birch, and groves of pine, And edges flowered with eglantine.
Page 47 - Ane better knight not to the world was lent, Nor was gude Grame of truth and hardiment.