Notes on Orkney and Zetland: Illustrative of the History, Antiquities, Scenery, and Customs of Those IslandsJohn Moir, 1822 - 333 Seiten |
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Seite 41 - The tale of woe; and ere it reaches him, Rumour, so loud when new, has died away Into a whisper, on the memory borne Of casual traveller :—as on the deep, Far from the sight of land, when all around Is waveless calm, the sudden tremulous swell, That gently heaves the ship, tells, as it rolls, Of earthquakes dread, and cities overthrown. O SCOTLAND ! much I love thy tranquil dales : But most on Sabbath eve, when low the sun Slants through the upland copse, 'tis my delight, Wandering, and stopping...
Seite 100 - Assint, being abroad in arms with some of his tenants in search of him, lighted on him in a place where he had continued three or four days without meat or drink, and only one man in his company. Assint had been formerly one of Montrose's own followers ; who immediately knowing him, and believing to find friendship at his hands, willingly discovered himself: but Assint, not daring to conceal him, and being greedy of the reward which was promised to the person who should apprehend him by the council...
Seite 57 - ... and the Presbytery most miserably abused ; particularly that when they are at exercise in the said church, neither can the preacher open his mouth nor the hearers conveniently attend for smoke ; yea some of the members of the Presbytery have been stopped in their outgoing and incoming to their meetings, and most rudely pursued by the soldiers with their muskets and halberts, all which are most grievous to the Presbytery, and to any that have any sense of godliness...
Seite 101 - Southesk, his father-in-law, where two of his children were kept, he procured liberty from his guard to see them; but neither at meeting nor parting could any change of his former countenance be discerned, or the least expression heard which was not suitable to the greatness of his spirit and the fame of his former actions. His behaviour was, during the whole journey, such as became a great man ; his countenance was serene and cheerful, as...
Seite 75 - See Hoy's old man ; whose summit bare Pierces the dark blue fields of air ! Based in the sea, his fearful form Glooms like the spirit of the storm...
Seite 58 - Magnus' church to grass in the church-yard, and another not long ago caused tye his horse to a pillar within the church, where...
Seite 9 - Scotorum Omnibus probis hominibus totius terre sue clericis et laicis salutem Sciatis nos dedisse concessisse et hac [Abridged from the original in the charter chest at Philorth.
Seite 76 - Around his dread and louring mass, In sailing swarms the sea-fowl pass ; But when the night-cloud o'er the sea Hangs like a sable canopy, And when the flying storm doth scourge, Around his base the rushing surge, Swift to his airy clefts they soar, And sleep amidst the tempest's roar, Or with its howling round his peak, Mingle their drear and dreamy shriek.
Seite 55 - ... taken back to Norway and interred in the High Church of Bergen by King Eirik beside those of her mother. The spire was originally higher and more nearly in proportion to the building ; but it met with an accident on Jan. 9, 1671 —
Seite 54 - Cathness, and the bastard surrendered on the pious condition that no torture should be employed to extort a confession of his father's guilt. The father was convicted on the son's confession.