More leaves from the journal of a life in the Highlands, from 1862 to 1882 |
Common terms and phrases
Annie Arthur Ballater Balmoral beautiful beautifully Ben Nevis breakfast bridge Brown carriage Castle changed horses Charlie Thomson cheered close Colonel Ponsonby cottages dear dearest Albert dined dining-room dinner drawing-room drive drove back Duchess of Roxburghe Duke and Duchess Duke's Dunkeld eleven four Gairloch glen Glenfiddich going Grey half-past seven heather Highland Jane Churchill Janie Ely Kelso Kinlochewe Lady Lake of Lucerne Lenchen Leopold Loch Loch Eil Loch Katrine Loch Lochy Loch Lomond Loch Lubnaig Loch Maree lodge Lomond looked Lord Louise and Beatrice lovely lunched luncheon Macleod maids miles Miss MacGregor mist morning nice nosegay o'clock October passed picturesque ponies poor pretty Prince quarter quarter-past railway rain reminded road rode scenery September Shiel side Sir Thomas sitting-room sketch splendid steep stopped Tomnavoulin trees Trossachs turned twelve upstairs village waggonette walked wild wooded yesterday
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Էջ 212 - And he from within shall answer and say, Trouble me not : the door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed; I cannot rise and give thee.
Էջ 127 - Where glistening streamers waved and danced, The wanderer's eye could barely view The summer heaven's delicious blue ; So wondrous wild, the whole might seem The scenery of a fairy dream.
Էջ 112 - The Lord bless thee and keep thee ; the Lord make His face to shine upon thee, and be gracious unto thee ; the Lord lift up His countenance upon thee and give thee peace.
Էջ 231 - No one ever raised and strengthened one's faith more than Dr. Macleod. His own faith was so strong, his heart so large, that all — high and low, weak and strong, the erring and the good — could alike find sympathy, help, and consolation from him. How I loved to talk to him, to ask his advice, to speak to him of my sorrows, my anxieties ! But, alas ! how impossible I feel it to be to give any adequate idea of the character of this good and distinguished man...
Էջ 271 - Catholic church, reminding one, from its elevated position to the right and above the house, 181 of churches and convents abroad, I thought I never saw a lovelier or more romantic spot, or one which told its history so well. What a scene it must have been in 1745! And here was /, the descendant of the Stuarts and of the very king whom Prince Charles sought to overthrow, sitting and walking about quite privately and peaceably.
Էջ 80 - IF thou would'st view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moon-light; For the gay beams of lightsome day Gild, but to flout, the ruins gray.
Էջ 255 - I am proud to call my own, where there was such devoted loyalty to the family of my ancestors— for Stuart blood is in my veins, and I am now their representative, and the people are as devoted and loyal to me as they were to that unhappy race.
Էջ 53 - I gazed — not without deep emotion — on the scene of our reception twenty-four years ago, by dear Lord Breadalbane, in a princely style, not to be equalled in grandeur and poetic effect.