Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland: A Survey of Scottish Topography, Staistical, Biographical and Historical, Band 5Francis Hindes Groome T. C. Jack, 1884 |
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Abbey Aberdeen Aberdeenshire accommodation acres ancient annual value average attendance barony beautiful border Borrowstounness boundary bridge building built burgh Burn Caledonian Carboniferous Castle century chapel coast contains district Earl Edinburgh erected feet above sea-level Firth Forfarshire formed Free church furl furlongs Glasgow Glen grants ground Hill House Inverness Inverness-shire island James John lake land left bank limestone Linlithgow living is worth Loch Lord mansion miles NNW miles SW Moffat Montrose Moray Moray Firth Musselburgh Nairn North British North British railway Oban Old Red Sandstone Orkney Paisley parish parish church Peebles Peeblesshire Perth Perthshire Peterhead portion post office presbytery public school quoad sacra quoad sacra parish railway rising river rocks Scotland shire side sittings soil South Ronaldsay station stone stream Street synod tower town Tweed utmost breadth utmost length Valuation 1860 village Water wood
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Seite 98 - DEGENERATE Douglas ! oh, the unworthy Lord ! Whom mere despite of heart could so far please, And love of havoc, (for with such disease Fame taxes him,) that he could send forth word To level with the dust a noble horde, A brotherhood of venerable trees, Leaving an ancient dome, and towers like these, Beggared and outraged...
Seite 25 - The moon on the east oriel shone Through slender shafts of shapely stone, By foliaged tracery combined : Thou wouldst have thought some fairy's hand 'Twixt poplars straight the osier wand In many a freakish knot had twined, Then framed a spell when the work was done, And changed the willow wreaths to stone.
Seite 74 - Myriads of daisies have shone forth in flower Near the lark's nest, and in their natural hour Have passed away ; less happy than the One That, by the unwilling ploughshare, died to prove The tender charm of poetry and love.
Seite 104 - Duchess mark'd his weary pace, His timid mien, and reverend face, And bade her page the menials tell, That they should tend the old man well : For she had known adversity, Though born in such a high degree : In pride of power, in beauty's bloom, Had wept o'er Monmouth's bloody tomb...
Seite 99 - Many hearts deplored The fate of those old trees ; and oft with pain The traveller, at this day, will stop and gaze On wrongs, which Nature scarcely seems to heed : For sheltered places, bosoms, nooks, and bays, And the pure mountains, and the gentle Tweed, And the green silent pastures, yet remain.
Seite 552 - Loch-Lomond, variegated as the lower part is by islands, without feeling that a speedier termination of the long vista of blank water would be acceptable ; and without wishing for an interposition of green meadows, trees, and cottages, and a sparkling stream to run by his side ? In fact, a notion of grandeur, as connected with magnitude, has seduced persons of taste into a general mistake upon this subject.
Seite 25 - Roses, and lilies, and thistles, and ferns, and heaths, in all their varieties, and oak-leaves and ash-leaves, and a thousand beautiful shapes besides, are chiselled with such inimitable truth, and such grace of nature, that the finest botanist in the world could not desire a better hortus siccus, so far as they go.
Seite 26 - The darkened roof rose high aloof On pillars lofty and light and small; The keystone, that locked each ribbed aisle, Was a fleur-de-lys, or a quatre-feuille : The corbells were carved grotesque and grim : And the pillars, with clustered shafts so trim, With base and with capital flourished around, Seemed bundles of lances which garlands had bound.
Seite 104 - He passed where Newark's stately tower Looks out from Yarrow's birchen bower : The Minstrel gazed with wishful eye — No humbler resting-place was nigh. With hesitating step, at last, The embattled...
Seite 552 - ... and pasture, with several agreeable villas emerging as it were out of the lake, till, at some distance, the prospect terminates in huge mountains covered with heath, which being in the bloom, affords a very rich covering of purple.