Reminiscences of half a century, by an accurate observer1838 |
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... rock , is a commanding ob- ject , and connected with many an interesting event . There is Arthur's Seat , and the beautiful walk round Salisbury Crags . From the Calton Hill you command the Frith of Forth and the different islands ...
... rock , is a commanding ob- ject , and connected with many an interesting event . There is Arthur's Seat , and the beautiful walk round Salisbury Crags . From the Calton Hill you command the Frith of Forth and the different islands ...
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... rock called Massy Dawson's Dining Table , where I enjoyed my sandwiches , and drank the healths of my excel- lent friends below in a bumper of mountain dew , and on finishing the bottle , placed in it a card with my name and those of ...
... rock called Massy Dawson's Dining Table , where I enjoyed my sandwiches , and drank the healths of my excel- lent friends below in a bumper of mountain dew , and on finishing the bottle , placed in it a card with my name and those of ...
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... rock of Cashel , a fine ruin : there is a singular tower here , quite perfect , the use of which has never been justly ascertained : it is too narrow even to have held bells ; some think that they were used to worship the sun . Cashel ...
... rock of Cashel , a fine ruin : there is a singular tower here , quite perfect , the use of which has never been justly ascertained : it is too narrow even to have held bells ; some think that they were used to worship the sun . Cashel ...
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... of the largest on the lake . Nothing can be more beautiful than the scenery ; the arbutus grows luxuriantly from the bare lime - rock ; I measured one four- teen feet in circumference , and seventy feet high . REMINISCENCE . 43.
... of the largest on the lake . Nothing can be more beautiful than the scenery ; the arbutus grows luxuriantly from the bare lime - rock ; I measured one four- teen feet in circumference , and seventy feet high . REMINISCENCE . 43.
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... rocks near the shore , supported as it were by pillars and ca- vities , or cellars under them . There is a pretty cottage of Mr. Herbert's , called Turk's Cot- tage ; there are fine woods , reaching down to the margin of the lake ...
... rocks near the shore , supported as it were by pillars and ca- vities , or cellars under them . There is a pretty cottage of Mr. Herbert's , called Turk's Cot- tage ; there are fine woods , reaching down to the margin of the lake ...
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Página 217 - But these are deeds which should not pass away, And names that must not wither, though the earth Forgets her empires with a just decay, The enslavers and the enslaved, their death and birth...
Página 66 - Vevay — visitez le pays, examinez les sites, promenez.vous sur le lac, et dites si la Nature n'a pas fait ce beau pays pour une Julie, pour une Claire, et pour un St. Preux ; mais ne les y cherchez pas.
Página 217 - And there — oh! sweet and sacred be the name! — Julia— the daughter, the devoted— gave Her youth to Heaven ; her heart, beneath a claim Nearest to Heaven's, broke o'er a father's grave.
Página 165 - It is the curse of kings, to be attended By slaves, that take their humours for a warrant To break within the bloody house of life ; And, on the winking of authority, To understand a law ; to know the meaning Of dangerous majesty, when, perchance, it frowns More upon humour, than advis'd respect.
Página 66 - J'allai à Vevay loger à la Clef; et pendant deux jours que j'y restai sans voir personne, je pris pour cette ville un amour qui m'a suivi dans tous mes voyages, et qui m'ya fait établir enfin les héros de mon roman.
Página 216 - Tis the last remnant of the wreck of years, And looks as with the wild-bewilder'd gaze Of one to stone converted by amaze, Yet still with consciousness ; and there it stands Making a marvel that it not decays, When the coeval pride of human hands, Levell'd Aventicum, 21 hath strew'd her subject lands.