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Althing Andrídr appeared Arnason barometer beautiful booths Brautarholt breeze Búi Butt of Lewis cairn called captain clouds coast dark district Thing Ellida Vatn Esja farm feet Firth fishing gone grass green Gudmundsson harbour Helgi Bjóla hill Hjaltalin Iceland island of Effersey Islendinga-bók Jón Jónas Hallgrímsson Kjalarnes Thing Kjalnesinga Saga knew Kolla Fiord Krossnes ladies land lived look miles morning moved ness night Nyanza o'clock Oban passed pleasant ponies poor-law Reykjavik rocks roof round ruins sail sailors Scarba scarcely seemed seen sheep Shiant Islands ship shore side sight Snæfell Sound of Islay spot steamer stone circle Stornoway temple Thingstead Thorgrímr Thórr Thorsteinn thought Tobermory told took town travellers vessel Vithey walk wall WEMYSS BAY whilst wind winter wonderful yacht Young Zöga
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Page 123 - ... that which, in a given case, morality approves, as against another which it rejects. If we took the pleasures by themselves apart from the moral judgment upon them, it is impossible to rebut the question, who is to say that the drunkard has a lower pleasure than the philosopher ? " Kings may be blest, but Tarn was glorious ; O'er all the ills of life victorious.
Page 4 - Nature's easel — this her freak of freaks, Her canvas the blue sky. A sudden cloud came o'er them, and anon The Arran hills in dark-blue blackness lay ; Surely not all the Highlands can put on So grim...
Page 114 - ... short distance from the foot of the Lake. There is one place in this passage which, from the institution connected with it, is of very considerable importance, and that is the word domhringr — Doomcircle — the doom ring or judgment ring. The courts of the heathen Norsemen were surrounded by this domhringr, about a bowshot from the centre where the benches were placed; and no evildoer might enter this ring, or commit * The declension of ba;r : — Baer, bx, by,— a dwelling. an act of violence...
Page 2 - ... The Arran hills in dark-blue blackness lay ; Surely not all the Highlands can put on So grim a scowl as they! They were alive with passion ; we beheld Their knitting eyebrows and their gleaming eyes; But soon their dark brows lifted, and they smiled Grandly at our surprise. Then, also on our left, the Isle of Bute ; So like to what a paradise should be, That all declared the name would better suit With an accented e. There Kean, the tragic, built himself a cot Beside its little lake, a sylvan...
Page 114 - In early heathen times this sacred circle was formed by a ring of stones (dom-steinar, court stones, court ring) ; no doubt some of the so-called Celtic or Druidical stone circles are relics of these public courts...
Page 22 - Let your own coal-pits sink a little, and lower the surface and stop the drainage, " and mandrakes and toadstools, and docks and darnels, rise like the dead from their ruined charnels," or at least plants quite as bad.