Anent Old Edinburgh and Some of the Worthies who Walked Its Streets: With Other PapersR. & H. Somerville, 1890 - 191 pàgines |
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Pàgina 21 - Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams, or from behind the moon In dim eclipse disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.
Pàgina 50 - Front, flank, and rear, the squadrons sweep To break the Scottish circle deep, That fought around their King. But yet, though thick the shafts as snow, Though charging knights like whirlwinds go. Though bill-men ply the ghastly blow, Unbroken was the ring; The stubborn spear-men still made good Their dark impenetrable wood, Each stepping where his comrade stood, The instant that he fell.
Pàgina 46 - A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted; A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up; A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance; A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together...
Pàgina 152 - O to abide in the desert with thee! Wild is thy lay and loud, Far in the downy cloud, Love gives it energy, love gave it birth. Where, on thy dewy wing, Where art thou journeying? Thy lay is in heaven, thy love is on earth.
Pàgina 142 - It is the land that freemen till, That sober-suited Freedom chose, The land, where girt with friends or foes A man may speak the thing he will ; A land of settled government, A land of just and old renown, Where Freedom broadens slowly down From precedent to precedent...
Pàgina 111 - Behold how good a thing it is, And how becoming well, Together such as brethren are, In unity to dwell.
Pàgina 30 - God bless the King, — I mean the Faith's Defender, God bless (no harm in blessing) the Pretender! But who Pretender is, and who the King, — God bless us all ! — that's quite another thing.
Pàgina 120 - Let Asher be blessed with children ; Let him be acceptable to his brethren, And let him dip his foot in oil. Thy shoes shall be iron and brass ; And as thy days, so shall thy strength be.
Pàgina 69 - At the Tron, from the middle of the way southward, the Mount Parnassus was reared up in a vast frame of timber, the superfice representing all the varieties of rocks and vegetables, which are to be seen on mountains ; upon the middle betwixt the two tops was erected an pyramide of great height, with...
Pàgina 46 - To everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven...