Nether Lochaber: The Natural History, Legends, and Folk-lore of the West HighlandsW. Paterson, 1883 - 417 páginas |
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Página 30
... sings as he soars , and soars as he sings , scaling on quivering pinions the aerial terraces of heaven , until he can scarcely be discerned , a music - showering speck against ALASDAIR MACDONALD . 31 the back - ground of the 30 NETHER ...
... sings as he soars , and soars as he sings , scaling on quivering pinions the aerial terraces of heaven , until he can scarcely be discerned , a music - showering speck against ALASDAIR MACDONALD . 31 the back - ground of the 30 NETHER ...
Página 41
... singing of birds shall have come , and the voice of the turtle be heard in our land . " Is glanders incurable ? is a very ugly , but doubtless a very important question , which is being at present keenly discussed in the columns of ...
... singing of birds shall have come , and the voice of the turtle be heard in our land . " Is glanders incurable ? is a very ugly , but doubtless a very important question , which is being at present keenly discussed in the columns of ...
Página 62
... sing our songs , and go on with the work we might have in hand by such light as was afforded by the blazing peat - fire , or let it alone till the next evening , just as we pleased . " Our friend concluded by declaring in very emphatic ...
... sing our songs , and go on with the work we might have in hand by such light as was afforded by the blazing peat - fire , or let it alone till the next evening , just as we pleased . " Our friend concluded by declaring in very emphatic ...
Página 107
... singing birds are now songless and silent , or if they do utter a note , it is but a cheep and a chirp , not a song , another sign that our winter is to be regarded as having fairly set in . We notice , besides , that some of our winter ...
... singing birds are now songless and silent , or if they do utter a note , it is but a cheep and a chirp , not a song , another sign that our winter is to be regarded as having fairly set in . We notice , besides , that some of our winter ...
Página 122
... sings- " Mur ' bi'dh agam ach trudair bodaich , Bhogain anns an allt e ; Mur ' bi'dh agam ach trudair bodaich , Bhogain anns an allt e ; Bhogain agus bhogain agus bhogain th'ar a cheann e , ' S mur ' bi'dh & glan ' nuair bhidh e tioram ...
... sings- " Mur ' bi'dh agam ach trudair bodaich , Bhogain anns an allt e ; Mur ' bi'dh agam ach trudair bodaich , Bhogain anns an allt e ; Bhogain agus bhogain agus bhogain th'ar a cheann e , ' S mur ' bi'dh & glan ' nuair bhidh e tioram ...
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Términos y frases comunes
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!