Nether Lochaber: The Natural History, Legends, and Folk-lore of the West HighlandsW. Paterson, 1883 - 417 páginas |
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... HOURS AT ONICH AND CRAIGRANNOCH , AND OF MANY A DELIGHTFUL MIDSUMMER RAMBLE , THIS VOLUME IS INSCRIBED WITH MUCH AFFECTIONATE REGARD BY HIS FRIEND THE AUTHOR . M188655 PREFATORY NOTE . THE Contents of this volume made their.
... HOURS AT ONICH AND CRAIGRANNOCH , AND OF MANY A DELIGHTFUL MIDSUMMER RAMBLE , THIS VOLUME IS INSCRIBED WITH MUCH AFFECTIONATE REGARD BY HIS FRIEND THE AUTHOR . M188655 PREFATORY NOTE . THE Contents of this volume made their.
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... hour of trial calm and patient be ; And when thy cup is full , walk humbly still , A careless , proud , rash step the blissful cup may spill ! With this bard's blessing on thy wedded morn , All at thy bridal chamber - door we greet thee ...
... hour of trial calm and patient be ; And when thy cup is full , walk humbly still , A careless , proud , rash step the blissful cup may spill ! With this bard's blessing on thy wedded morn , All at thy bridal chamber - door we greet thee ...
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... hour in any given place , the weather should be such as to render an observation of a celestial phenomenon impossible , or at the least partial and unsatisfactory . One thing , at least , is now pretty certain — that annually , and at a ...
... hour in any given place , the weather should be such as to render an observation of a celestial phenomenon impossible , or at the least partial and unsatisfactory . One thing , at least , is now pretty certain — that annually , and at a ...
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... hour , however , these ceased , and all of a sudden , in a very few seconds at most , the whole celestial hemisphere from E.N.E. to W.S.W. — from horizon to horizon - appeared completely spanned by a magnificent auroral arch , eight ...
... hour , however , these ceased , and all of a sudden , in a very few seconds at most , the whole celestial hemisphere from E.N.E. to W.S.W. — from horizon to horizon - appeared completely spanned by a magnificent auroral arch , eight ...
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... hour , all their little shifts must frequently prove inadequate to the supply of their daily wants in such trying times as these . St. Valentine's day has come and gone , but neither in copse , nor hedgerow , nor ivy - mantled wall ...
... hour , all their little shifts must frequently prove inadequate to the supply of their daily wants in such trying times as these . St. Valentine's day has come and gone , but neither in copse , nor hedgerow , nor ivy - mantled wall ...
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admirably amongst animal Appin Ardgour autumn Ballachulish beautiful believe Ben Nevis bird bright called Castle Stalker cave chaffinch CHAPTER cold colour common curious days ago delight district eating eggs evil fact fairy favourite fieldfare Fingalian fish flowers frequently frost Gaelic glen Glen Nevis Glenevis green hand hazel head heard Hebrides hedgehog hour interesting known labours land least less lively Loch Loch Leven Loch Linnhe Lochaber axe look matter meteors moon morning Mortimer Collins mountain neighbourhood neighbouring nest Nether Lochaber never night observed occasion once otter ourselves Outer Hebrides perhaps plant poet potato present probably proper rain rare raven reader recollect round Scotland season seemed seen shores singing song specimen spot spotted crake storm summer superstition thing thistle watch water-vole weather West Highlands wild wild-birds wind wing winter wonder
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Página 128 - My beloved spake, and said unto me, rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away ; for lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone : the flowers appear on the earth ; the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land. The fig-tree putteth forth her green figs, and the vines with the tender grape give a good smell. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.
Página 288 - Pope. Friend to my life, (which did not you prolong, The world had wanted many an idle song) What drop or nostrum can this plague remove?
Página 45 - ... while the Earth remaineth seed-time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.
Página 66 - And now, my race of terror run, Mine be the eve of tropic Sun ! No pale gradations quench his ray, No twilight dews his wrath allay ; With disk like battle-target red, He rushes to his burning bed, Dyes the wide wave with bloody light, Then sinks at once — and all is night.
Página 81 - When forced the fair nymph to forego. What anguish I felt at my heart: Yet I thought — but it might not be so — Twas with pain that she saw me depart. She gazed as I slowly withdrew, My path I could hardly discern; So sweetly she bade me adieu, I thought that she bade me return.
Página 80 - I have found out a gift for my fair; I have found where the wood-pigeons breed; But let me that plunder forbear, She will say 'twas a barbarous deed...
Página 31 - La gentille aloiiette, avec son tirelire, Tirelire a lire, et tireliran tire, Vers la voute du ciel, puis son vol vers ce lieu, Vire et desire dire adieu Dieu, adieu Dieu.
Página 110 - The raven himself is hoarse That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan Under my battlements. Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full Of direst cruelty ! make thick my blood ; Stop up...
Página 154 - And so the time beguile ; And if the moon doth hide her head. The glowworm lights us home to bed.
Página 406 - How happy could I be with either, Were t'other dear Charmer away!