More Leaves from the Journal of a Life in the Highlands, from 1862 to 1882Smith, Elder, 1884 - Всего страниц: 407 |
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Annie Arthur Ballater Balmoral Beatrice and Jane beautiful beautifully Ben Nevis breakfast bridge Brown carriage Castle changed horses Charlie Thomson cheer close Colonel Ponsonby cottages dear dined dining-room dinner drawing-room drive drove back Duchess of Roxburghe Duke and Duchess Duke's Dunkeld eleven Gairloch glen going Grey half-past seven heather Highland hills Jane Churchill Janie Ely kilt Kinlochewe Lady Lake of Lucerne Lenchen Leopold Loch Loch Eil Loch Katrine Loch Lochy Loch Lomond Loch Maree Lomond looked Lord Louise and Beatrice lovely lunched luncheon Macleod maids miles Miss MacGregor mist morning nice nosegay o'clock passed ponies poor prayer pretty Prince quarter quarter-past Queen rain reminded road rode scenery September side Sir Thomas Sir William Jenner sitting-room sketch splendid station steep stopped Tomnavoulin trees Trossachs turned twelve upstairs village waggonette walked wild wooded yesterday
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Стр. 80 - IF thou would'st view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moon-light; For the gay beams of lightsome day Gild, but to flout, the ruins gray.
Стр. 212 - And he from within shall answer and say, Trouble me not : the door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed; I cannot rise and give thee.
Стр. 127 - Where glistening streamers waved and danced, The wanderer's eye could barely view The summer heaven's delicious blue ; So wondrous wild, the whole might seem The scenery of a fairy dream.
Стр. 127 - The western waves of ebbing day Rolled o'er the glen their level way; Each purple peak, each flinty spire, Was bathed in floods of living fire. But not a setting beam could glow Within the dark ravines below, Where twined the path in shadow hid, Round many a rocky pyramid, Shooting abruptly from the dell Its...
Стр. 112 - The Lord bless thee and keep thee ! The Lord make His face to shine upon thee and be gracious unto thee ! The Lord lift up His countenance upon thee and give thee peace ! The service was concluded with another short prayer and the usual blessing.
Стр. 151 - Ballater, on the south side of the Dee, where I had been many years ago. Unfortunately almost all the trees which covered the hills have been cut down. We got out and tasted the water, which is strongly impregnated with iron, and looked at the bath and at the humble but very clean accommodation in the curious little old inn, which used to be very much frequented.
Стр. 261 - Stern, rugged, precipitous mountains with beautiful peaks and rocks piled high one above the other, two and three thousand feet high, tower and rise up to the heavens on either side, without any signs of habitation, except where, halfway up the pass, there are some trees, and near them heaps of stones on either side of the road, remains of what once were homes, which tell the bloody, fearful tale of woe. The place itself is one which adds to the horror of the thought that such a thing could have...
Стр. 92 - We drove on for an hour and more, having entered Glen Rinnes shortly after Tomnavoulin, with the hills of Ben Rinnes on the left. There were fine large fields of turnips, pretty hills and dales, with wood, and distant high hills, but nothing grand. The day became duller, and the mist hung over the hills; and just as we sat down by the roadside on a heathery bank, where there is a very pretty view of Glenlivet, to take our tea, it began to rain, and continued doing so for the remainder of the evening.