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Abbey Aberdeen Aberdeenshire afterwards ancient appearance Ayrshire banks beautiful born Bothwell BOTHWELL CASTLE bounded breadth building built called Cathedral celebrated charter church coast CRAIGMILLAR CASTLE district Dumbarton DUMBARTON CASTLE Dumbartonshire Earl east to west EDINBURGH CASTLE Elgin ELGIN CATHEDRAL EMINENT English erected extent feet in height Frith of Clyde garrison Glasgow ground Highlands hills hundred INVERARY CASTLE James James VI King lake Lanark land length Loch lofty Lord magnificent Melrose Mid-Lothian miles monastery Moray frith mountains neighbourhood northern ornamented Paisley Palace parish Perth PLATE poet portion principal Queen resided rising river Clyde Robert Bruce rock ROSLIN ROSLIN CASTLE Rothsay Roxburghshire royal burgh ruins scenery scenes Scotland Scots Scottish shire shore side situated splendid stands Steel by H Stewart Stewartry Stirling stone summit surrounded Theodorus Bailey tower town transepts Turnberry TURNBERRY CASTLE wall William the Lion
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Page 38 - to hoot o'er the dead man's grave, Then go——but go alone the while— Then view St David's ruin'd pile ; And, home returning, soothly swear, Was never scene so sad and fair!
Page 128 - Should wake, in yonder islet lone, A sainted hermit from his cell, To drop a bead with every knell— And bugle, lute, and bell, and all, Should each bewilder'd stranger call To friendly feast, and lighted hall.
Page 128 - rude grandeur, as fills the mind with the most sublime conceptions. It seems as if a whole mountain had been torn in pieces and frittered down by a convulsion of the earth; and the huge fragments of rocks, woods, and hills, scattered in confusion for two miles into the east end and the sides of
Page 131 - a large house of the Duke of Athol, with its offices and gardens, extends a mile beyond the town ; and, as his grounds are intersected by the streets and roads, he has flung arches of communication across them, that add much to the scenery of the place.
Page 45 - had any design upon his life he might always be master of it. Then taking his own sword by the point, he presented it to the prince who immediately received it, and was so irritated by the affront which he thought he had sustained in being foiled with all his attendants, that he instantly ran Crichton through the heart,
Page 39 - built, is of a most beautiful colour and texture, and has defied the influence of the weather for more than six centuries; nor is the sharpness of the sculpture in the least affected by the ravages of time. The quarry from which it was taken, is still successfully wrought at Dryburgh.
Page 57 - was born and lived to manhood in the immediate vicinity of the town; and the cottage still stands in which he first saw the light. Here the genius of poetry found him at the plough, and threw her inspiring mantle over him. Numerous localities within the town, and its neighbourhood, have received a deathless name from the power of his genius.
Page 81 - strangely inclined To come from all places With horses and chaises By day and by dark To the falls of Lanark ; For, good people, after all What is a waterfall? It comes roaring and grumbling, And leaping and tumbling, And hopping and skipping, And foaming and dripping, And struggling and toiling, And bubbling and boiling, And beating and jumping, And bellowing and thumping, I
Page 160 - may be very properly described as a hilly mountainous country, interspersed with a great many fertile valleys, well adapted to the cultivation of corn and grass. The hills are either covered with heath or moss, affording little pasture; while, from their bleak and barren aspect, they have a very gloomy and unpleasant appearance.
Page 98 - Arrived at the bottom of the rock, the night was far advanced, and they were afraid lest the clearness of the sky, which was covered •with stars, and the appearance of day-light should discover them to the sentinels who watched above. The mist, however, which generally at this season