A History of the Highlands and of the Highland Clans, Bind 1A. Fullarton, 1843 |
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Aberdeen Aboyne afterwards ancient Angus appear apprehended Argyle arms army arrived Athole attack Baillie bards battle Berridale Bishop body brother Caledonians called camp castle Celtic Celts chief Clan Gun Clandonald command council covenanters covenanting earl of Caithness earl of Huntly earl of Sutherland Edinburgh enemy entered favour foot force Frendraught friends Gaelic Gaul Grant Highlanders horse immediately inhabitants Inverness Ireland Irish island Isles James John joined killed king laird lands language Lord Berridale Lord Gordon Lorn Macdonald Mackintosh Maclean Macleod Macpherson Malcolm marquis of Huntly miles Montrose Montrose's Moray Murray Neill North Britain obtained Ogilvie origin Ossian party persons Perth Pictish Picts poems possession prisoners proceeded race reign retreat returned Roman Ross Scotland Scots sent side Sinclair Sir Alexander Sir Alexander Gordon Sir Lauchlan Sir Robert Gordon sixteen hundred Spalding Strathbogie Strathnaver supposed tion took town tribes troops whole William Wishart
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Side 138 - Have, then, thy wish!"— he whistled shrill, And he was answered from the hill ; Wild as the scream of the curlew From crag to crag the signal flew. Instant, through copse and heath, arose Bonnets and spears and bended bows ; On right, on left, above, below, Sprung up at once the lurking foe...
Side 92 - WE were now treading that illustrious Island, which was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge, and the blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible, if it were endeavoured, and would be foolish, if it were possible. Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses, whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future, predominate...
Side 93 - Far from me and from my friends be such frigid philosophy, as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved over any ground •which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of lona.
Side 116 - To see a spark of fire fall upon one's arm or breast, is a forerunner of a dead child to be seen in the arms of those persons ; of which there are several fresh instances.
Side 92 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings.
Side 139 - That whistle garrisoned the glen At once with full five hundred men, As if the yawning hill to heaven A subterranean host had given. Watching their leader's beck and will, All silent there they stood, and still. Like the loose crags, whose threatening mass Lay tottering o'er the hollow pass, As if an infant's touch' could urge Their headlong passage down the verge, With step and weapon forward flung, Upon the mountain-side they hung.
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Side 107 - Like the idle gleam that December's beam Can dart on ice and snow. " And fading, like that varied gleam, Is our inconstant shape, Who now like knight and lady seem, And now like dwarf and ape.