Nether Lochaber: The Natural History, Legends, and Folk-lore of the West HighlandsW. Paterson, 1883 - 417 páginas |
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... sort of rhythmical alliterative prose rather than in verse , somewhat in the manner of the conversational parts of the Gaelic Sgeulachdan or fireside tales of the olden time . Its tone throughout is gay and lively , with an occasional ...
... sort of rhythmical alliterative prose rather than in verse , somewhat in the manner of the conversational parts of the Gaelic Sgeulachdan or fireside tales of the olden time . Its tone throughout is gay and lively , with an occasional ...
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... was a wild , irregular sort of chant , very different from the soft low airs to which our main- land songs are for the most part sung , with the refrain or burden THE ST . KILDA MAID'S SONG . 27 ( represented 26 NETHER LOCHABER .
... was a wild , irregular sort of chant , very different from the soft low airs to which our main- land songs are for the most part sung , with the refrain or burden THE ST . KILDA MAID'S SONG . 27 ( represented 26 NETHER LOCHABER .
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... sort of business , whereas in the former you have the chance of pleasant and agreeable companionship , in addition to its other attractions . For one to make a discovery , and to think that oneself has made a discovery , are two widely ...
... sort of business , whereas in the former you have the chance of pleasant and agreeable companionship , in addition to its other attractions . For one to make a discovery , and to think that oneself has made a discovery , are two widely ...
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... sort of ribbed magenta - coloured " Kilmarnock , " with a tassel at top , in which were intermingled all the hues of the rainbow , such a splendid tassel as was never before seen in Lochaber : Cardinal Antonelli might have been proud of ...
... sort of ribbed magenta - coloured " Kilmarnock , " with a tassel at top , in which were intermingled all the hues of the rainbow , such a splendid tassel as was never before seen in Lochaber : Cardinal Antonelli might have been proud of ...
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... sort of spiral flight , ascending and ascending cork - screw fashion until he seemed to the eye no bigger than a wren , then straight and swift as an arrow from a bow he urged his flight southwards , and became lost to view . On re ...
... sort of spiral flight , ascending and ascending cork - screw fashion until he seemed to the eye no bigger than a wren , then straight and swift as an arrow from a bow he urged his flight southwards , and became lost to view . On re ...
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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 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 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 truth watch water-vole weather West Highlands wild wild-birds wind wing winter wonder
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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 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 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 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 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 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 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 406 - Is it for thee the lark ascends and sings? Joy tunes his voice, joy elevates his wings. Is it for thee the linnet pours his throat? Loves of his own and raptures swell the note. The bounding steed you pompously bestride, Shares with his lord the pleasure and the pride. Is thine alone the seed that strews the plain? The birds of heav'n shall vindicate their grain.
Página 29 - 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.