History of the Berwickshire Naturalists' Club, Instituted September 22, 1831, Հատոր 16[publisher not identified], printed for the club by Martin's Printing Works, Spittal, 1899 Contains it's Proceedings. |
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Էջ 348 - Love had he found in huts where poor men lie; His daily teachers had been woods and rills, The silence that is in the starry sky, The sleep that is among the lonely hills.
Էջ 269 - They rolled him up in a sheet of lead — A sheet of lead for a funeral pall ; They plunged him in the cauldron red, And melted him, lead, and bones, and all.
Էջ 214 - Ye'll ne'er get back to your ain countrie." 0 they rade on, and farther on, And they waded through rivers aboon the knee, And they saw neither sun nor moon, But they heard the roaring of the sea. It was mirk, mirk night, and there was nae stern light, And they waded through red blude to the knee, For a' the blude, that's shed on earth, Rins through the springs o
Էջ 230 - Lord from worldly men me save, Which only in this present life their part and portion have. Whose belly with thy treasure hid thou fill'st : they children have In plenty ; of their goods the rest they to their children leave. 15 But as for me, I thine own face in righteousness will see ; And with thy likeness, when I wake, I satisfy'd shall be.
Էջ 291 - My dear Sir : Will you pardon the vanity of an author in hoping a copy of a new edition of his work may not be unacceptable to you as a man of letters and an ancient borderer. It contains some lines on p. 138 relative to the Homes of Wedderburn and the Swintons (my own maternal ancestors) with a few others which were added since the quarto edition.
Էջ 331 - Et sciendu', q' p'fati moachi in obitu meo facient seruiciu' pro me sicud p' uno moacho ; & si m' placu'it, corpus meu' recipie't ad sepulturam. Hiis t', Rob'to filio Ursy, Joh'e filio ejus, & aliis." " Know men present and future, that I, Robert, son of Hugh de Wude, have given, and granted, and by this my present charter have confirmed, to God and S.
Էջ 171 - ... chafings and tumblings of the big blue German Ocean. Seaward St. Abb's Head, of whinstone, bounds your horizon to the east, not very far off; west, close by, is the deep bay, and fishy little village of Belhaven: the gloomy Bass and other rock-islets, and farther the Hills of Fife, and foreshadows of the Highlands, are visible as you look seaward. From the bottom of Belhaven bay to that of the next sea-bight St. Abb's-ward, the Town and its environs form a peninsula. Along the base of which peninsula,...
Էջ 331 - Balemadethin by their right meiths, to be held by him and his heirs of me and my heirs...
Էջ 171 - A beautiful sea ; good land too, now that the plougher understands his trade ; a grim niched barrier of whinstone sheltering it from the chafings and tumblings of the big blue German Ocean. Seaward St. Abb's Head, of whinstone, bounds your horizon to the east, not very far off; west, close by, is the...
Էջ 41 - Little was her stature, but great was her fame, Upon the English loons she laid many thumps, And when her legs were smitten off she fought upon her stumps.