A Tour in England and Scotland, in 1785G. G. J. and J. Robinson, 1788 - 367 páginas |
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Página 229 - Let them blow like the devil,' replied the general, ' if it will bring back the men." ' The pipes were ordered to play a favourite martial air. The Highlanders, the moment they heard the music, returned and formed with alacrity in the rear. In the late war in India, Sir Eyre Coote...
Página 229 - Highlanders so much in a day of action : nay, even now they would be of use." — " Let them blow then like the Devil," replied the general, " if that will bring back the men.
Página 227 - ... on occasions of merriment and diversion, but also during almost every kind of work which employs more than one person, such as milking cows, watching the folds, fulling of cloth, grinding of corn with the hand-mill, hay-making, and reaping of corn. These songs and tunes re-animate for a time, the drooping labourer, and make him work with redoubled ardour.
Página 82 - The powers of recollection remain fufpended, for a time, by this fudden fhock ; and it is not till after a confiderable time, • that you are enabled to contemplate the fublime horrors of this majeftic fcene.
Página 81 - At both thefe places, this great body of water, ruming with horrid fury, feems to threaten deftruction to the folid rocks that enrage it by their refiftance. It boils up from the caverns which itfelf has formed, as if it were vomited out of the infernal regions. The horrid and inceflant din with which this is accompanied, unnerves and overcomes the F heart.
Página 228 - There is undoubted evidence, that from the izth to the 151)1 century, both inclufive, the Scots not only ufed, but, like their kindred Irifh, excelled in playing on the harp: a fpecies of mufic, in all probability, of Druidical origin. But, beyond all memory or tradition, the favourite inftrument of the Scotch muficianshas been the bagpipe, introduced into Scotland, at a very early period, by the Norwegians. The large bagpipe is the inftrument of the Highlanders for war, for marriage, for funeral'...
Página 230 - Highlanders to their ancient mufic, exprefled bis applaufe of their behaviour on that day, by giving them fifty pounds to buy a pair of bagpipes. ' So quick and powerful is the influence of moral caufes in the formation of the characters of nations and men, that the Highlanders have actually undergone greater alteration in the courfe of the prefent century, than for a thaufand years before.
Página 82 - F heart. heart. In vain you look for ceflation or reft to this troubled fcene. Day after day, and .year after year, it continues its furious courfe ; and every moment feems as if wearied nature were going to general wreck.
Página 139 - Princes and lords may flourifh, or may fade ; A breath can make them, as a breath has made : But a bold peafantry, their country's pride, When once deftroy'd, can never be fupply'd.
Página 12 - Birmingham manufacturers in general, though there are, no doubt, some exceptions, as well as profligacy of manners. This may be owing in part, to their want of early education; for the moment that the children are fit for any kind of labour...