Nether Lochaber: The Natural History, Legends, and Folk-lore of the West HighlandsW. Paterson, 1883 - 417 páginas |
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... young in years thou ' rt now a wedded wife ; O seek His guidance who can guide aright . With aid from Him , the rugged path of life May still be trod with pleasure and delight ; For He who made us bids us not forego A single , sinless ...
... young in years thou ' rt now a wedded wife ; O seek His guidance who can guide aright . With aid from Him , the rugged path of life May still be trod with pleasure and delight ; For He who made us bids us not forego A single , sinless ...
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... Young as thou wert to dangers , raw to war ; O curs'd essay of arms , disastrous doom , Prelude of bloody fields and fights to come , Hard elements of unauspicious war , Vain vows to heaven and unavailing care . " How the most pious man ...
... Young as thou wert to dangers , raw to war ; O curs'd essay of arms , disastrous doom , Prelude of bloody fields and fights to come , Hard elements of unauspicious war , Vain vows to heaven and unavailing care . " How the most pious man ...
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... young and thoughtless to give that attention to the subject which it deserved . We recollect , however , that the case was said to have occurred in Edinburgh , and to have been treated in the infirmary of that city , and that the ...
... young and thoughtless to give that attention to the subject which it deserved . We recollect , however , that the case was said to have occurred in Edinburgh , and to have been treated in the infirmary of that city , and that the ...
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... young and old will clap their hands and rejoice in its purity and power . Some years ago arose a school of poetry that flared and flickered for a season , and found admirers on the same mysterious principle , we suppose , that ...
... young and old will clap their hands and rejoice in its purity and power . Some years ago arose a school of poetry that flared and flickered for a season , and found admirers on the same mysterious principle , we suppose , that ...
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... young woodcock , with the quill feathers still pulpy and soft , which , of the original bird , was all he could secure from the clutches of a hawk that was breakfasting on the dainty morsel in the woods of Coirrechadrachan . We also ...
... young woodcock , with the quill feathers still pulpy and soft , which , of the original bird , was all he could secure from the clutches of a hawk that was breakfasting on the dainty morsel in the woods of Coirrechadrachan . We also ...
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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!