John Stuart Blackie: A Biography, Volumen2W. Blackwood, 1895 |
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Aberdeen Altnacraig amongst Annie Grey April Archer August banquet beautiful Blackie's breakfast bright busy called Campbell Celtic Chair Celts Christian Church College correspondence Crofters delightful dinner Douglas Crescent Dr Walter Duchess of Argyll English fessor friends Gaelic gave genial Gladstone Goethe guest hand heart Hellenic Society Highland Hill Homer honour host interest Inverness invited Isabella Bird island Jenny Geddes John JOHN STUART BLACKIE July June Kerrera Kingussie Lady land language lecture letter literature living London Lord lunched March meeting ment mind Miss modern Greek months Mull Oban occupied Oxford party Pitlochry pleasant poems present Professor Blackie reached received Reform returned to Edinburgh Scot Scotch Scotland Scotsman Scottish Highlanders Scottish Song sent session Skye social sonnets spent spirit St Mary's Loch stay summer talk tion took translation University volume walk weeks writing wrote
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Página 243 - Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know not how oft. Where be your gibes now? your gambols? your songs? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar?
Página 191 - Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, Till there be no room, and ye be made to dwell alone in the midst of the land...
Página 243 - Ah Ben ! Say how or .when Shall we, thy guests, Meet at those lyric feasts, Made at the Sun, The Dog, the Triple Tun ; Where we such clusters had, As made us nobly wild, not mad? And yet each verse of thine Out-did the meat, out-did the frolic wine.
Página 308 - Creeds and Confessions ! High Church or the Low? I cannot say: but you would vastly please us If with some pointed scripture you could show To which of these belonged the Saviour Jesus. I think to all or none: not curious creeds Or ordered forms of churchly rule He taught, But soul of love that blossomed into deeds With human good and human blessing fraught.
Página 25 - Where far the Asian lowland spreads, and by Cayster's flow, Freely on joyful pinions sail, and wander to and fro, And with their clanging wings loud rings the mead where they alight ; Thus swarmed the Greeks from ship and tent, to find the fateful fight Far o'er Scamander's plain : and earth rebellowed to the sound, As the mail-clad men and the four-hoofed horse tramped o'er the hollow ground, Till on the broad grass mead they stood, a marshalled multitude, Countless as flowers in flowery spring,...
Página 186 - I've seen Coming pure linen, And, like the linen, the souls were clean Of them that wore it. See that thou kindly use them, O man ! To whom God giveth Stewardship over them, in thy short span, Not for thy pleasure ! Woe be to them who choose for a clan Four-footed people...
Página 210 - ... in the only university of Ireland is, no doubt, a circumstance still more discreditable ; but, considering the enthusiastic interest which the Scotch have ever taken in the old monuments of their national existence, and the abundance of their academical apparatus for almost all purposes, even that does not surprise us so much as the absence of any Gaelic endowment among their four universities. Surely the numberless Highland and Celtic clubs, of whose proceedings for the improvement of black...
Página 8 - The poet came down-stairs from a hot bath which he had just been taking, quite in an easy unaffected style; a certain slow heaviness of motion belongs essentially to his character, and contrasts strikingly with the alert quickness and sinew energy of Kingsley; head Jovian, eye dark, pale face, black flowing locks, like a Spanish ship-captain or a captain of Italian brigands, — something not at all common and not the least English.
Página 25 - As when destroying fire hath caught a stretch of dry old pines High on a hill-top, and afar the blazing forest shines ; So shone the copper-coated host as rank on rank advances, While flash quick brands in a thousand hands, and gleam the eager lances. And as the uncounted tribes that scour the sky with mighty vans Of geese or...