Glencreggan; or, A Highland home in Cantire, by Cuthbert Bede, Volume 21861 |
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appear APPENDIX Argyle Argyleshire Arran Atlantic Barr beautiful Beinn-an-tuirc boat called Campbell Campbelton Cantire Castle CHAP Christopher North church cliffs coast of Cantire cottages dark Dermid detached rocks Diarmid dogs Duke Duke of Rothesay East Tarbert farm farm-house farmers of Muasdale feet Fingal fish fourteen farmers Gaelic Gigha glen Glenacardoch Point Glenbarr Glencreggan Graina ground grouse head heather heather-land Hebrides hill Iona island Islay Jura kelp Kilchenzie Killean King Kintyre Kyles of Bute Lady land Largie legend Loch Fyne Loch Tarbert Lord Macculloch Macdonald Manse miles minister moors mountain Muasdale Mull night old Rudd otter parish passing Pennant picturesque poems portion present river road Rothesay salmon says scene scenery Scotch Scotland sheep shooting shore side sketch smoke sport spot stone stream Tayinloan thou trees village waves West Highland West Loch Tarbert Western Isles wind wraic
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Página 143 - It is a beauteous evening, calm and free, The holy time is quiet as a Nun Breathless with adoration; the broad sun Is sinking down in its tranquillity; The gentleness of heaven broods o'er the Sea: Listen! the mighty Being is awake, And doth with his eternal motion make A sound like thunder— everlastingly.
Página 147 - E'en the slight harebell raised its head, Elastic from her airy tread : What though upon her speech there hung The accents of the mountain tongue — Those silver sounds, so soft, so dear, The listener held his breath to hear.
Página 175 - Fell off in hoary flakes. Within the shadow of the ship I watched their rich attire — Blue, glossy green, and velvet black, They coiled and swam; and every track Was a flash of golden fire.
Página 33 - Fair ferns and flowers, and chiefly that tall fern, So stately, of the queen Osmunda named ; Plant lovelier, in its own retired abode On Grasmere's beach, than Naiad by the side Of Grecian brook, or Lady of the Mere, Sole-sitting by the shores of old romance.
Página 132 - with loose stones, ranged for the most part with some tendency to circularity. It must be placed where the wind cannot act upon it with violence, because it has no cement; and where the water will run easily away, because it has no floor but the naked ground. The wall, which is commonly about six feet high, declines from the perpendicular a little inward.
Página 143 - Then the broad bosom of the ocean keeps An equal motion; swelling as it sleeps, Then slowly sinking; curling to the strand, Faint, lazy waves o'ercreep the ridgy sand, Or tap the tarry boat with gentle blow, And back return in silence, smooth and slow.
Página 201 - In gentle stream; then rose the song, the loud Acclaim of praise. The wheeling plover ceased Her plaint; The solitary place was glad, And on the distant cairns the watcher's ear Caught doubtfully at times the breeze-borne note.
Página 138 - The best book on surveying with which I am acquainted."— W. RUTHERFORD, LL.D. .FRAS, Royal Military Academy, Woolwich. Reports of the Association for Promoting Improvement in the Dwellings and Domestic Condition of Agricultural Labourers in Scotland.
Página 53 - ... interests are committed to his charge. When on duty he declines civilities, not surlily, for he is essentially a good-tempered beast, but he puts them aside as ill-timed. At an early age the frivolity of puppyism departs from him, and he becomes a sedate character. At home he shares his master's porrich ; lies on the best place before the fire ; suffers with complacency the caresses of the children, who tug his ears and tail, and twist their little fingers into his long coat ; and, without inviting...
Página 60 - ... sans intermission, for a round dozen of hours spent in a perpetual fire. Commend us to a plentiful sprinkling of game ; to ground which seems occasionally barren, and which it needs a fine instructed eye to traverse scientifically, and thereof to detect the latent riches. Fear and hope are the deities of the moors, else would they lose their witchcraft. A gentleman...