The Antiquary, Volume 1James Ballantyne and Company, 1816 - 370 pagina's |
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Pagina 7
... sort , and who was , moreover , by the absence of the coach , deprived of the power of availing himself of his prio- rity of choice , amused himself , instead , by speculating upon the occupation and cha- racter of the personage who was ...
... sort , and who was , moreover , by the absence of the coach , deprived of the power of availing himself of his prio- rity of choice , amused himself , instead , by speculating upon the occupation and cha- racter of the personage who was ...
Pagina 21
... sort of a place , and I'll be very hap py to finish the account I was giving you of the difference between the mode of en- trenching castra stativa and castra asti- va , things confounded by too many of our historians . Lack - a - day ...
... sort of a place , and I'll be very hap py to finish the account I was giving you of the difference between the mode of en- trenching castra stativa and castra asti- va , things confounded by too many of our historians . Lack - a - day ...
Pagina 32
... sort of hereditary respect for the laird of Monkbarns , aug- mented by the knowledge of his being a ready - money man , kept up his conse- quence with this class of his neighbours . The country gentlemen were generally above him in ...
... sort of hereditary respect for the laird of Monkbarns , aug- mented by the knowledge of his being a ready - money man , kept up his conse- quence with this class of his neighbours . The country gentlemen were generally above him in ...
Pagina 51
Walter Scott. could , through the thick atmosphere , per- ceive in what sort of den his friend had constructed his retreat . It was a lofty room of middling size , obscurely light- ed by high narrow latticed windows . One end was ...
Walter Scott. could , through the thick atmosphere , per- ceive in what sort of den his friend had constructed his retreat . It was a lofty room of middling size , obscurely light- ed by high narrow latticed windows . One end was ...
Pagina 87
... sort of privileged nuisance - one of the last specimens of the old - fashion- ed Scottish mendicant , who kept his rounds within a particular district , and was the news - carrier , the minstrel , and sometimes the historian of the ...
... sort of privileged nuisance - one of the last specimens of the old - fashion- ed Scottish mendicant , who kept his rounds within a particular district , and was the news - carrier , the minstrel , and sometimes the historian of the ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 204 - For the same sound is in my ears Which in those days I heard. Thus fares it still in our decay : And yet the wiser mind Mourns less for what age takes away Than what it leaves behind.
Pagina 142 - ... the show of pyramids and towers, some touched with gold, some with purple, some with a hue of deep and dark red. The distant sea, stretched beneath this varied and gorgeous canopy, lay almost portentously still, reflecting back the dazzling and level beams of the descending luminary, and the splendid colouring of the clouds amidst which he was setting.
Pagina 246 - Ay, ay — it's easy for your honour, and the like o' you gentle-folks, to say sae, that hae stouth and routh, and fire and fending, and meat and claith, and sit dry and canny by the fireside — but an ye wanted fire, and meat, and dry claise, and were deeing o...
Pagina 144 - ... altogether sunk below the horizon, and an early and lurid shade of darkness blotted the serene twilight of a summer evening. The wind began next to arise ; but its wild and moaning sound was heard for some time, and its effects became visible on the bosom of the sea, before the gale was felt on shore. The mass of waters, now dark and threatening, began to lift itself in larger ridges, and sink in deeper furrows, forming waves that rose high in foam upon the breakers, or burst upon the beach with...
Pagina 51 - See this bundle of ballads, not one of them later than 1700, and some of them an hundred years older. I wheedled an old woman out of these, who loved them better than her psalm-book. Tobacco, sir, snuff, and the Complete Syren were the equivalent I For that mutilated copy of the Complaynt of Scotland...
Pagina 143 - ... precipices by which that ironbound coast is in most places defended. Long projecting reefs of rock, extending under water, and only evincing their existence by here and there a peak entirely bare, or by the breakers which foamed over those that were partially covered, rendered Knockwinnock Bay dreaded by pilots and shipmasters. The crags which rose between the beach and the mainland, to the height of two or three hundred feet, afforded in their crevices shelter for unnumbered sea-fowl, in situations...
Pagina 219 - the Deep Voice cried, " So long enjoyed, so oft misused — Alternate, in thy fickle pride, Desired, neglected, and accused? " Before my breath, like blazing flax, Man and his marvels pass away ; And changing empires wane and wax, Are founded, flourish, and decay. " Redeem mine hours — the space is brief — While in my glass the sand-grains shiver, And measureless thy joy or grief, When TIME and thou shall part for ever...
Pagina 52 - I stood haggling upon a halfpenny, lest, by a too ready acquiescence in the dealer's first price, he should be led to suspect the value I set upon the article ! — how have I trembled, lest some passing stranger should chop in between me and the prize...