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... Island - The Three Wonders - Drummond and Ben Jonson- Burns ' Libation . 152 • CHAPTER XV . THE LAKE FULL OF ISLANDS . A Cluster of Islands - The Yew of Inch - Callioch - Buchanan's Obelisk -Dog Latin - The Pot of Gartness - Lord Napier ...
... Island - The Three Wonders - Drummond and Ben Jonson- Burns ' Libation . 152 • CHAPTER XV . THE LAKE FULL OF ISLANDS . A Cluster of Islands - The Yew of Inch - Callioch - Buchanan's Obelisk -Dog Latin - The Pot of Gartness - Lord Napier ...
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... Island Jewel - Traditions 217 CHAPTER XXII . BEN VENUE . • Coir - nan - Uriskin , the Goblin's Cave - Where is the Cave ? —The Guide and the Cockney - Who were the Urisks ? -Goblins and Robbers— The Highlander and ' Bony ' - The Pass of ...
... Island Jewel - Traditions 217 CHAPTER XXII . BEN VENUE . • Coir - nan - Uriskin , the Goblin's Cave - Where is the Cave ? —The Guide and the Cockney - Who were the Urisks ? -Goblins and Robbers— The Highlander and ' Bony ' - The Pass of ...
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... islands ' will naturally be very different from those of Mr. Smith , on whose three hours ' sail a bright sun shone with con- venient splendour ; or of Mr. Brown , who had spent three weeks upon the banks , and had good sport in fishing ...
... islands ' will naturally be very different from those of Mr. Smith , on whose three hours ' sail a bright sun shone with con- venient splendour ; or of Mr. Brown , who had spent three weeks upon the banks , and had good sport in fishing ...
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... journey is exceedingly picturesque . For fifty miles the railway runs at a short distance from the sea ; so that while on the left hand we have a fine HOLY ISLAND - THE FARN ISLES . 21 stretch of 20 A TOUR IN TARTAN - LAND .
... journey is exceedingly picturesque . For fifty miles the railway runs at a short distance from the sea ; so that while on the left hand we have a fine HOLY ISLAND - THE FARN ISLES . 21 stretch of 20 A TOUR IN TARTAN - LAND .
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... islands . Holy Island , for example , where , in addition to more interesting attractions ( as my com- panion informs me ) , the entrochi , commonly called Cuthbert's Beads , are found ; and the Farn Isles , where the scene of Grace ...
... islands . Holy Island , for example , where , in addition to more interesting attractions ( as my com- panion informs me ) , the entrochi , commonly called Cuthbert's Beads , are found ; and the Farn Isles , where the scene of Grace ...
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Abbotsford Achray admirable appear artist banks beautiful Ben Ledi Ben Lomond Ben Venue bridge building Burns called Castle Cathedral cave century church clan Clyde coach creel Douglas Drummond Edinburgh Ellen's Isle English erected feet fishwives Glasgow glen Greenock Hawthornden Highland Mary hills Hotel Inversnaid island James King Lady lake land legend Loch Achray Loch Katrine Loch Lomond London look Lord lovely Macgregors Mary's Melrose Abbey memory miles monument mountain Newhaven ornamental passed picture picturesque pillars piper poem poet poetical portion present Princes Street Queen railway river road Rob Roy Rob Roy's Robert rock Roslin Castle Roslin Chapel ruins says scene scenery Scotch Scotland Scots Scottish seen shore side Sir Walter Scott sketch spot stone stream Tartan-land tion Tom Purdie tomb tourists tower town trees Trosachs Venue walk woods words
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Page 224 - In all her length far winding lay, With promontory, creek, and bay, And islands that, empurpled bright, Floated amid the livelier light, And mountains, that like giants stand, To sentinel enchanted land.
Page 383 - LORD, I have loved the habitation of thy house, and the place where thine honour dwelleth.
Page 350 - The moon on the east oriel shone, Through slender shafts of shapely stone, By foliaged tracery combined ; Thou wouldst have thought some fairy's hand, 'Twixt poplars straight the osier wand, In many a freakish knot, had twined; Then framed a spell, when the work was done, And changed the willow-wreaths to stone.
Page 335 - Raby there was slain, Whose prowess did surmount. For Witherington needs must I wail As one in doleful dumps ; For when his legs were smitten off, He fought upon his stumps.
Page 204 - These trees, a veil just half withdrawn; This fall of water, that doth make A murmur near the silent lake...
Page 133 - Mary! dear departed shade! Where is thy place of blissful rest ? See'st thou thy lover lowly laid? Hear'st thou the groans that rend his breast?
Page 387 - There are twenty of Roslin's barons bold Lie buried within that proud chapelle , Each one the holy vault doth hold, But the sea holds lovely Rosabelle ! And each St.
Page 250 - THERE'S not a nook within this solemn Pass, But were an apt confessional for One Taught by his summer spent, his autumn gone, That Life is but a tale of morning grass Withered at eve.
Page 211 - Had you seen but these roads before they were made, You'd lift up your hands and bless Marshal Wade.
Page 417 - Thrice happy he, who by some shady grove, Far from the clamorous world, doth live his own ; Though solitary, who is not alone, But doth converse with that eternal Love.