The Highlanders: A Poem by the Rev. L. Booker

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I. West Stourbridge, 1787 - 28 páginas

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Página 2 - Ah ! little think they, while they dance along, How many feel, this very moment, death And all the fad variety of pain. How many fink in the devouring flood, Or more devouring flame. How many bleed, By fhameful variance betwixt Man and Man.
Página 17 - ... being left upon the open heaths, seek to shelter themselves from the inclemency of the weather amongst the hollows upon the lee-side of the mountains, and here they are frequently buried under the snow for several weeks together, and in severe seasons during two months or upwards. They eat their own and each other's wool, and hold out wonderfully under cold and hunger ; but even in moderate winters, a considerable number are generally found dead after the snow hath disappeared, and in rigorous...
Página 6 - But ill attir'd from cold and lawlefs gaze : Another, lodg'd unfeemly at her back, Mingles its plaintive forrows with the wind : While two, copartners of a priftine birth, (Prefling with blood-ftain'd feet the pointed...
Página vi - Such being the natural ftate of the Highlands, the only parts capable of agriculture are the vallies or glens around the bafes of the mountains ; and thefe vallies having the fun for a few hours only, vegetation advances flowly, and the harvefts are always late. The climate is equally difcouraging to the purpofes of hufbandry. The fpring is bleak and piercing; the...
Página v - In their fituation, every man is not only obliged to dig and reap with his own hand, the little field that is to...
Página v - ... in which individuals can with eafe mutually give and receive reciprocal aid, live at prefent in detached folitary hamlets, in want of moft of thofe enjoyments which men who have lived in! fociety would think absolutely neceflary to existence.
Página 9 - Unconicious where to find to-morrow's fare. Thus hies the bird (whofe mate, by bafe decoy, Is fever'd from her love) at duflcy eve, To feed her callow brood, and wafte in grief The live-long night, nor wilh return of morn.
Página vi - ... articles of hufbandry, the farmer turns his attention chiefly to the grazing of a few cattle and fheep, as the means whereby he expects to pay his rent, and fupport his family. If, therefore, his farm hath been raifed at the rate of 300 per cent, while...
Página vi - Ihort ; the autumn, from the beginning of Auguft, deluged •with rains; the winter long and tempeftuous. During the latter feafon, the people are cut off from all communication with the Low Countries, by deep beds of fnow, impaflible torrents, pathlefs mountains and moraffes on the one fide ; by long and impracticable navigations on the other. To thefe accumulated difcouragements of nature, are added the...
Página vi - ... are the vallies, or glens, around the bafes of the mountains ; and thefe vallies having the fun for a few. hours only, vegetation advances flowly, ancf the harvefts are always late.

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