The Antiquary, Volumul 31Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson E. Stock, 1895 |
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... land to be allotted them measures eight hectares , and they compute that one hectare of land inhabited by game will yield a thousand kilos of meat yearly . Before taking possession , they are going to well stock the plantations with ...
... land to be allotted them measures eight hectares , and they compute that one hectare of land inhabited by game will yield a thousand kilos of meat yearly . Before taking possession , they are going to well stock the plantations with ...
Pagina 6
... Land of Promise . " In this country he had a cathair , or stone fort , in which was a banqueting hall , where " comely dark - eyebrowed gillas went round with smooth - polished horns : sweet - stringed timpans , were played by them ...
... Land of Promise . " In this country he had a cathair , or stone fort , in which was a banqueting hall , where " comely dark - eyebrowed gillas went round with smooth - polished horns : sweet - stringed timpans , were played by them ...
Pagina 22
... land , " the poet Collins thus apos- trophizes John Home , the author of Douglas , with reference to his return to Scotland , which , as " Fancy's Land , " offered him a wide field for the exercise of his imagination . Unbounded is thy ...
... land , " the poet Collins thus apos- trophizes John Home , the author of Douglas , with reference to his return to Scotland , which , as " Fancy's Land , " offered him a wide field for the exercise of his imagination . Unbounded is thy ...
Pagina 23
... land ( pp . 428-440 ) , and with regard to which he says , that it " must have been written between 1577 and 1595. " In that " descrip- tion " the following statement is made , not with regard to a mere outlying islet , but to the large ...
... land ( pp . 428-440 ) , and with regard to which he says , that it " must have been written between 1577 and 1595. " In that " descrip- tion " the following statement is made , not with regard to a mere outlying islet , but to the large ...
Pagina 26
... land stretching westward from the Port of Ness , thereby making the high land of Eorrapidh and the Butt of Lewis almost an island . It may be , therefore , that this was the " Ylen Dunibeg " of 1662. One thing certain is that there is ...
... land stretching westward from the Port of Ness , thereby making the high land of Eorrapidh and the Butt of Lewis almost an island . It may be , therefore , that this was the " Ylen Dunibeg " of 1662. One thing certain is that there is ...
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Pagina 22 - Thy Muse may, like those feathery tribes which spring From their rude rocks, extend her skirting wing Round the moist marge of each cold Hebrid isle To that hoar pile which still its...
Pagina 77 - Here's to thee, old apple-tree, Whence thou mayst bud, and whence thou mayst blow ! And whence thou mayst bear apples enow ! Hats full! caps full! Bushel — bushel — sacks full, And my pockets full too ! Huzza...
Pagina 168 - will seek the groves Where the lady Mary is, With her five handmaidens, whose names Are five sweet symphonies, Cecily, Gertrude, Magdalen, Margaret and Rosalys.
Pagina 308 - To all who speak the English language, the history of the great agony through which the Republic of Holland was ushered into life must have peculiar interest, for it is a portion of the records of the Anglo-Saxon race — essentially the same, whether in Friesland, England, or Massachusetts.
Pagina 229 - When in one night, ere glimpse of morn, His shadowy flail hath threshed the corn That ten day-labourers could not end; Then lies him down the lubber fiend, And, stretched out all the chimney's length, Basks at the fire his hairy strength, And crop-full out of doors he flings, Ere the first cock his matin rings.
Pagina 217 - May, to seek their health ; and the whole being found guilty, were sentenced to repent " in linens" three several sabbaths. 132 " And it is statute and ordained that if any person or persons be found superstitiously and idolatrously, after this, to have passed in pilgrimage to Christ's well on the Sundays of May to seek their health, they shall repent in sacco (sackeloth) and linen three several sabbaths, and pay twenty lib.
Pagina 118 - O that I had wings like a dove : for then would I flee away, and be at rest.
Pagina 215 - Montrose never lowered his aspect. The Provost, Duncan Forbes, taking leave of him at the town's end, said : ' My Lord, I am sorry for your circumstances.
Pagina 186 - I cannot think Nature is so spent and decayed, that she can bring forth nothing worth her former years. She is always the same, like herself; and when she collects her strength, is abler still. Men are decayed, and studies. She is not.
Pagina 22 - Or thither, where beneath the showery west The mighty kings of three fair realms are laid; Once foes, perhaps, together now they rest. No slaves revere them and no wars invade: Yet frequent now, at...