Memorials of James Drummond Carmichael, ArthurstoneJohn Leng & Company, printers, 1883 - 254 páginas |
Términos y frases comunes
afternoon Ardler arrived Arthurstone aunt beautiful Blairgowrie Bonhard breakfast bridge Camno Cannes Carmichael carriage Castle Coupar-Angus cousin Crianlarich Dalwhinnie dear delightful dinner Dochart drove Drummond Dundee Dunstaffnage Castle Edinburgh father favourite feet Fort-William four Friday friends garden Glen Glen Dochart grand Hammerfest heart Highland hills Hotel Inverarnan island Kerrera Kettins Killin kirk last night leaving letter Loch Achray Loch Ericht Loch Etive Loch Katrine Loch Laggan Loch Linnhe Loch Rannoch look lovely magnificent Meigle miles long Monday morning mountain nice Norway o'clock Papa passed passengers Perth pretty railway rain Rannoch river road Sabbath Saturday scenery Scotch Scotland season seen shore side snow soon splendid SPRINGHILL steamer stone summer Thursday took town train trip visited walked Wednesday week wild Willie woods yesterday
Pasajes populares
Página 47 - I COME from haunts of coot and hern, I make a sudden sally, And sparkle out among the fern, To bicker down a valley. By thirty hills I hurry down, Or slip between the ridges, By twenty thorps, a little town, And half a hundred bridges. Till last by Philip's farm I flow To join the brimming river, For men may come and men may go, But I go on for ever.
Página 89 - Gul in her bloom ; Where the citron and olive are fairest of fruit, And the voice of the nightingale never is mute, Where the tints of the earth, and the hues of the sky, In color though varied, in beauty may vie...
Página 240 - For ever and for ever, all in a blessed home — And there to wait a little while till you and Effie come — To lie within the light of God, as I lie upon your breast — And the wicked cease from troubling, and the weary are at rest.
Página 233 - BLESS the Lord, O my soul: and all that is within me, bless his holy name. Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits: Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases; Who redeemeth thy life from destruction; who crowneth thee with lovingkindness and tender mercies; Who satisfieth thy mouth with good things; so that thy youth is renewed like the eagle's.
Página 33 - My heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not here ; My heart's in the Highlands a-chasing the deer; Chasing the wild deer, and following the roe, My heart's in the Highlands wherever I go.
Página 229 - Nearer, my God, to Thee, Nearer to Thee! E'en though it be a cross That raiseth me; Still all my song shall be. Nearer, my God, to Thee, Nearer to Thee!
Página 62 - And when daisies and buttercups gladdened my sight, Like treasures of silver and gold. I love you for lulling me back into dreams Of the blue Highland mountains and echoing streams. And of birchen glades breathing their balm...
Página 155 - Silence as of death,' writes he; 'for Midnight, even in the Arctic latitudes, has its character: nothing but the granite cliffs ruddy-tinged, the peaceable gurgle of that slow-heaving Polar Ocean, over which in the utmost North the great Sun hangs low and lazy, as if he too were slumbering. Yet is his cloud-couch wrought of crimson and...
Página 117 - Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was, And the spirit shall return to God who gave it.
Página 155 - ... shooting downwards to the abyss, and hide itself under my feet. In such moments, Solitude also is invaluable; for who would speak, or be looked on, when behind him lies all Europe and Africa, fast asleep, except the watchmen ; and before him the silent Immensity, and Palace of the Eternal, whereof our Sun is but a porch-lamp?