The chief of Glen-Orchay [a poem, by W. Bennet]. |
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... heights , in infant veins , Drip devious down , and steal away Through glens , with rocks and ruins grey , - East , west , north , south ; till , full and strong , Trade's craft they distant bear along , And mirror in their peaceful ...
... heights , in infant veins , Drip devious down , and steal away Through glens , with rocks and ruins grey , - East , west , north , south ; till , full and strong , Trade's craft they distant bear along , And mirror in their peaceful ...
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... heights o'er it loom ; Till , ' cross the neck of Middle Lorn , From Etive's Glen , with pomp unshorn , Unbroken flows the sunset gleam On Cladich's huts and murmuring stream , And , down to Sonachan , displays Half of Loch - Awe yet in ...
... heights o'er it loom ; Till , ' cross the neck of Middle Lorn , From Etive's Glen , with pomp unshorn , Unbroken flows the sunset gleam On Cladich's huts and murmuring stream , And , down to Sonachan , displays Half of Loch - Awe yet in ...
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... height of Strone , to near Tyndrum . X. On Cruachan , the twilight's faded ! Ben - Loy , Ben - More , lie deeply shaded Beneath a moonless , cloudy night , That all around contracts the sight To objects only close at hand ; But well the ...
... height of Strone , to near Tyndrum . X. On Cruachan , the twilight's faded ! Ben - Loy , Ben - More , lie deeply shaded Beneath a moonless , cloudy night , That all around contracts the sight To objects only close at hand ; But well the ...
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... height , Blabs like a ghost throughout the night . XVII . These arms and trophies all to shew , And on the board full radiance throw , Besides the fire at upper end , Three torches , 30 THE CHIEF OF GLEN - ORCHAY . [ Canto 2 .
... height , Blabs like a ghost throughout the night . XVII . These arms and trophies all to shew , And on the board full radiance throw , Besides the fire at upper end , Three torches , 30 THE CHIEF OF GLEN - ORCHAY . [ Canto 2 .
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... light the strife In which they're plunged , for death or life ! XXXIII . As when two mountain torrents rush Down opposite heights , with sudden gush , E 3 And meet direct in middle way , With shock , Canto 2. ] 41 THE SURPRISE .
... light the strife In which they're plunged , for death or life ! XXXIII . As when two mountain torrents rush Down opposite heights , with sudden gush , E 3 And meet direct in middle way , With shock , Canto 2. ] 41 THE SURPRISE .
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Allan aloft Alpin Alpine race arms aught band Ben-Doran Ben-Loy Ben-More blow brow burst Castle cave cheer Chief Clan claymore Colin Dubh Corquadale cried crowd Cruachan Dalmally dark dawn deed deem deep Dochart farther fate fear fight Fillan's fled foes friendly friends gainst gillies glen Glen-Dochart Glen-Orchay Glen-Orchay's gloom Grampian Mountains Gregor guard hand harp hast head height Highland honour human giant instant Kilchurn Kilchurn Castle Knight Templar Lady Lake light Loch-Awe loud M'Corquadale M'Naughton mind mood Mother mountain ne'er neath night Note o'er Orchay's pause plain Priest replied rock round rush Saint Fillan Scotland Second Sight shew shout sight sleep smile soon soon's spirit sprung stay Stone stood straight Strath-Fillan Strone strong sudden Suevi tears thee thou thought throw towers twas twere Tyndrum Urisk voice wassail whate'er whole Young Orchay Youth 米米 米米米
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Page 253 - 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.
Page 244 - In consecrated earth, And on the holy hearth, The Lars and Lemures moan with midnight plaint ; In urns and altars round A drear and dying sound Affrights the Flamens at their service quaint ; And the chill marble seems to sweat, While each peculiar Power foregoes his wonted seat.
Page 244 - The lonely mountains o'er And the resounding shore A voice of weeping heard, and loud lament; From haunted spring and dale Edged with poplar pale The parting Genius is with sighing sent; With flower-inwoven tresses torn The Nymphs in twilight shade of tangled thickets mourn.
Page 250 - There being about thirty of the inhabitants one ilay together in the isle Soa, they espied a man with a grey coat and plaid, in a shirt, floating on the sea upon his belly, and saw likewise a Mall pecking at his neck ; this vision continued above a quarter of an hour, and then disappeared ; but shortly after, one of the spectators chanced to fall into the sea, and being drowned, resembled the forewarning vision in all things, and the Mall was also seen upon his neck ; this was told me by the steward...
Page 258 - And wizards' wits be blind, The Scots in place must reign, Where they this stone shall find.
Page 258 - The names of the stone are both of them derived from a persuasion the ancient Irish had, that in what country soever the stone remained, there one of their blood was to reign."— TOLAND'S History of the Druids, p. 152. § Sir G. Wilkinson found a stone in a statue, sonorous, and that in its top while concealed from below, he could by striking it produce a sound. Referring to this incident, while standing beside...
Page 249 - The Brownie was a very obliging spirit, who used to come into houses by night, and for a dish of cream to perform lustily any piece of work that might remain to be done: sometimes he would work, and sometimes eat till he bursted : if old clothes were laid out for him, he took them in great distress, and never more returned.
Page 220 - Brcadalbane estates caused the roof to be taken off, merely to obtain an easy supply of wood, to the irreparable injury of the castle, and the unavailing regret of its noble proprietor, who was then absent. The greatest care is now taken of its preservation ; but, open and exposed as it now is, time and the winter storms will soon work its decay. Wordsworth has addressed some fine lines to...
Page 218 - At its eastern end, however, the stranger may spend weeks in examining the beauty of its wooded and varied shores and islands, or the grandeur of its lofty mountains and deeply U secluded glens. The water of the Lake appears a basin enclosed among mountains of rude and savage aspect, but lofty and grand, ' filling,' says Dr. Macculloch, ' at once the eye and the picture, and literally towering above the clouds.
Page 217 - Fort-Souachan, about six miles down its southern shore. Here the scenery can hardly be equalled in Great Britain . but the remaining portion of the Lake is uninteresting to the traveller, possessing little variety, and neither beauty nor grandeur.