Nether Lochaber: The Natural History, Legends, and Folk-lore of the West HighlandsW. Paterson, 1883 - 417 páginas |
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... wonder that the would - be melodist slunk away abashed ; and such be the fate of all mere echoers and imitators when at any time they claim more than is their due , or would have us appraise their pinchbeck at the value of sterling gold ...
... wonder that the would - be melodist slunk away abashed ; and such be the fate of all mere echoers and imitators when at any time they claim more than is their due , or would have us appraise their pinchbeck at the value of sterling gold ...
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... wonder at the lengths to which fanaticism and superstition carried people in those unhappy times ? To understand why Virgil , of all the ancient poets , Roman or Greek , was selected as the oracle in this mode of divination , we must ...
... wonder at the lengths to which fanaticism and superstition carried people in those unhappy times ? To understand why Virgil , of all the ancient poets , Roman or Greek , was selected as the oracle in this mode of divination , we must ...
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... wonder so much , perhaps , that a frost current should , under certain circumstances , occasion- ally penetrate earthwards even in the dog - days . We should have stated above that on the 13th we carefully examined the solar disc with ...
... wonder so much , perhaps , that a frost current should , under certain circumstances , occasion- ally penetrate earthwards even in the dog - days . We should have stated above that on the 13th we carefully examined the solar disc with ...
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... wonder to boast of in 1666 that we cannot claim for 1870 , to this date at least ; the wonder in question being two blazing comets in the nocturnal sky . Describing the English fleet advancing to attack the enemy at night , the poet ...
... wonder to boast of in 1666 that we cannot claim for 1870 , to this date at least ; the wonder in question being two blazing comets in the nocturnal sky . Describing the English fleet advancing to attack the enemy at night , the poet ...
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... wonder that the soundest sleepers were awakened from their midnight slumbers by the hurly - burly . We ourselves got up for a time , and sat at our window , watching the lightning that darted incessantly among the mountain summits with ...
... wonder that the soundest sleepers were awakened from their midnight slumbers by the hurly - burly . We ourselves got up for a time , and sat at our window , watching the lightning that darted incessantly among the mountain summits with ...
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Términos y frases comunes
admirably Æneid 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 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 mole 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
Pasajes populares
Página 286 - 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 124 - Who take the ruffian billows by the top, Curling their monstrous heads, and hanging them With deafning clamours in the slippery clouds, That, with the hurly," death itself awakes ? Can'st thou, O partial sleep ! give thy repose To the wet sea-boy in an hour so rude ; And in the calmest and most stillest night, With all appliances and means to boot, Deny it to a king? Then, happy low, lie down ! Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
Página 126 - 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 228 - Verse sweetens toil, however rude the sound. All at her work the village maiden sings; Nor, while she turns the giddy wheel around, Revolves the sad vicissitude of things.
Página 43 - ... while the Earth remaineth seed-time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.
Página 64 - 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 108 - 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 78 - 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 79 - 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 372 - But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night ; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, and the earth also, and the works that are therein, shall be burned up.