A Painter's CampRoberts brothers, 1895 |
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Page 160 - If thou wouldst view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moonlight ; For the gay beams of lightsome day Gild, but to flout, the ruins gray.
Page 146 - ... suddenly split asunder, and I beheld through the gap — thousands of feet overhead, as if suspended in the crystal sky — a cone of illuminated snow.
Page 152 - Then, when the waggon pressed hard, and seemed to get heavier and heavier, what a flurry Meg would get into, till, for safety's sake, I tightened the break on the hind wheels, and so relieved her. I fancy the scenery of Glen Coe approaches nearer to the stony Arabian landscape than any other scenery in Scotland, for the mountains have a barren strength and steepness which remind one continually of the stone buttresses of Sinai, as we have seen Sinai in photographs and the drawings of John Lewis....
Page 146 - Thus, hour after hour passed by and brought no change. Fitz and Sigurdr, who had begun quite to disbelieve in the existence of the island, went to bed, while I remained pacing up and down the deck anxiously questioning each quarter of the grey canopy that enveloped us. At last, about four in the morning, I fancied some change was going to take place; the heavy wreaths of vapour seemed to be imperceptibly separating, and in a few minutes more the solid roof of grey suddenly split asunder, and I beheld...
Page 24 - What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is the harder because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it. It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion ; it is...
Page i - The headings of a few chapters may serve to convey a notion of the character of the book: A Walk on the Lancashire Moors ; the Author his...
Page 153 - The story is a century old now; the human race has heard it talked over for a hundred years. But the tale is as fresh in its fearful interest as the latest murder in the newspapers. Kind hospitality was never so cruelly requited ; British soldiers were never at once so cowardly and so ferocious. That massacre was not warfare; it was not the execution of justice; it was assassination on a great scale, and under circumstances every detail of which adds to the inexpressible painfulness of the fact....