# ent

id: 38822
type: WORK_OF_ART
entity:
  ''the Course of Time''--Grave of Motherwell--Sketch of his Life--His Genius and Poetry--''Jeanie Morrison


id: 41623
type: PRODUCT
entity:
  | | | | BY KEITH CLARK | | THE SPELL OF SPAIN | | THE SPELL OF SCOTLAND | | | | BY W. D. MCCRACKAN | | THE SPELL OF TYROL | | THE SPELL OF THE ITALIAN LAKES | | | | BY


id: 41623
type: PRODUCT
entity:
  | | | | BY JULIA DE W. ADDISON | | THE SPELL OF ENGLAND | | | | BY NATHAN HASKELL DOLE | | THE SPELL OF SWITZERLAND | | | | THE PAGE COMPANY | | 53


# bib

id: 39026
title: Our Journey to the Hebrides
author: Pennell, Joseph
txt: ./txt/39026.txt
cache: ./cache/39026.txt
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
summary:
  come to a village like this, where men are allowed to live a little good, and most of them, tired after their day''s work, came to dinner in looked from the weary, silent old man and the row of tiny bare cottages, the little white town, with a pleasant inn, close to the waters of Loch in the sunshine, and the way the clouds came and went, made the day more better if many of the Islanders, like men of the east coast, became that day on the boat, with the shores of hopeless Harris in sight, Mrs. Thomas said to me, "There are two sides to the question, of course. the people came from far and near to meet in the little kirk overlooking met the people coming home over the hills, and still they walked each always expected people to come home wet, the landlord''s daughter said.


id: 38822
title: The Genius of Scotland; or, Sketches of Scottish Scenery, Literature and Religion
author: Turnbull, Robert
txt: ./txt/38822.txt
cache: ./cache/38822.txt
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
summary:
  Beauty an Element of the Mind--Our Native Land--Auld Lang Syne--General Beauty an Element of the Mind--Our Native Land--Auld Lang God, form the great elements of their religious life. beautiful ruins of Holyrood House, at the foot of the hill, let us turn iron-hearted man, who "never feared the face of clay," and did God''s it is an insufferable thing for a plain honest-hearted man like John enter a Druidical circle without a prayer to God. He viewed the Creator chiefly in his attributes of love, goodness and In 1819 Dr. Chalmers removed to the new church and parish of St. John''s, in which place the writer, while a student at Glasgow College, [Footnote 33: In Scotland the old peasant houses have the fire in their _Sir Wil._--Command your joys, young man, till truth appear. years--(here the tears started in the old man''s eyes.) We maun a'' dee.


id: 41623
title: The Spell of Scotland
author: Clark, Keith
txt: ./txt/41623.txt
cache: ./cache/41623.txt
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
summary:
  Scotland has sent such majorities of her sons, since the old days when years afterward James Hogg comes down this way to visit his countryman, It was the only time Burns ever left Scotland, ever came into England. time) to Melrose; as Scottish kings of history and story have passed red-gray walls caught the light of day and the coming shadows of night Mary''s time all the world came to measure lances in Edinburgh. Half a century later the history of Scotland came to a climax, and Mary forget the clang of the tram cars, to look up at the great Castle Hill, Turn but a little and the Old Town lies before you, the castle splendid, That day our king comes o''er the water." Hither came Mary Queen of Scots, when she was five years old, here for Ayr looks well from the sea as one comes in, although in the day of


id: 47800
title: Highways and Byways in the Border Illustrated
author: Lang, Andrew
txt: ./txt/47800.txt
cache: ./cache/47800.txt
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
summary:
  wandered far north of the old Border line of Tweed on the east, and beautiful surviving relic here of old days, was built under James VI and hills here is probably the scene of some great battle of old times. At Wedderlie, of old time, says Sir Thomas Dick Berwick yielded to the Scots in the dark days of Edward II., good Sir says that as late as his own day an old thatched two storied building Little more than a mile from that town, by the road leading to St. Boswells up Tweed''s southern bank, on a wooded ridge overhanging Teviot were for ever taking place in these Border hills, both in the days of as Scott calls the hills through which the Border Waters run, Yarrow, in Sir Walter''s day,--nigh on a hundred years ago landed a fish so huge, days long dead, the old house stands brooding over the past; and still


id: 37687
title: The Cruise of the Land-Yacht "Wanderer"; or, Thirteen Hundred Miles in my Caravan
author: Stables, Gordon
txt: ./txt/37687.txt
cache: ./cache/37687.txt
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
summary:
  the flowerets look like little balls of red or white wax prettily set in yew-tree yonder sheds its little round blossoms, as thick as hail; soon day; a journey thither in a great caravan like the Wanderer is still good-looking dark bay mare of some fifteen hands and over; Corn-flower of the word, though not old as a hotel of the kind, and all day long, A little very old man gets out from under a tree and stands as straight soon looked like that of a yacht in a rough sea-way. nearing the caravan whose looks Bob does not like, or whose movements he "Good-bye, old sea; we will be sure to come back again when summer days The first fortnight of life in a great caravan like the Wanderer is just How lovely the sea looks on a summer''s day from the hills around here!


id: 42289
title: Abbotsford
author: Crockett, W. S. (William Shillinglaw)
txt: ./txt/42289.txt
cache: ./cache/42289.txt
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
summary:
  4. Sir Walter Scott''s Desk and ''Elbow Chair'' in the Study, Abbotsford in claiming Sir Walter Scott as the most representative Border man the the three periods of Scott''s life--Rosebank, Ashestiel, Abbotsford--lie ''play the grand old feudal lord again.'' Lockhart assures us that Scott Border family, and to become head of a new branch of the Scotts, July,'' Scott writes at the beginning of 1824, ''Abbotsford will, I [Illustration: SIR WALTER SCOTT''S DESK AND "ELBOW CHAIR," IN THE STUDY, fact, Scott was then the laird of Abbotsford in name only, and nothing Such was the creation of Scott''s Abbotsford, a real ''romance in stone A glance at the Abbotsford life will bring us nearer Scott as a Abbotsford day ended for Scott by ten o''clock. Melrose Abbey, with a modest stone erected by Sir Walter Scott, is Scott built at Abbotsford.] same year Sir David Wilkie visited Scott to paint his picture, the


id: 2064
title: A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland
author: Johnson, Samuel
txt: ./txt/2064.txt
cache: ./cache/2064.txt
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
summary:
  We left this little island with our thoughts employed awhile on the Elgin seems a place of little trade, and thinly inhabited. this island lived from the present time, is afforded by the stone heads table, a visit was paid by the Laird and Lady of a small island south of Those, said he, are the walls of a place of refuge, built in the time of the eldest son of the Laird of Col, heir to a very great extent of land, It is generally supposed, that life is longer in places where there are In the Islands, as in most other places, the inhabitants are of different in as little danger from the powerful as in other places. English, and had never seen any other places than the Islands of Sky, thoughts that naturally rise in places where the great and the powerful


id: 6018
title: The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL.D.
author: Boswell, James
txt: ./txt/6018.txt
cache: ./cache/6018.txt
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
summary:
  ''Sir,'' said Mr Johnson, ''a lawyer has no business Of Dr Beattie, Mr Johnson said, ''Sir, he has written like a man Johnson said nothing at the time; but when we came to the great door Dr Johnson gave him this character: ''Sir, he is a civil man, and a Johnson, after they were acquainted, said, ''I take great delight in Dr Johnson said, ''So great a number as a thousand is better. Mr Grant having prayed, Dr Johnson said, his prayer was a very good Dr Johnson said, that ''a chief and his lady should make their house dependence on his will, Dr Johnson said, ''You are right: it is a man''s Dr Johnson said nothing at the time; but when we were in our ''True, sir,'' said Dr Johnson: ''but you may ''True, sir,'' said Dr Johnson: ''but you may ''Why, sir,'' said Dr Johnson, ''I shall say nothing as to the


id: 54980
title: The Country of Sir Walter Scott
author: Olcott, Charles S. (Charles Sumner)
txt: ./txt/54980.txt
cache: ./cache/54980.txt
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
summary:
  little old-fashioned villages, the ruined castles and abbeys, all Scott was thirty-four years old when the ''Lay of the Last Minstrel'' So great was Scott''s love of the picturesque and especially of the old Church, where Colonel Mannering heard a sermon by Scott''s old friend, he heard the history of Doune Castle, a fine old ruin on the river later years, were not by any means the chief business of Scott''s life But Walter Scott was a young man, and in his great big heart there was since been known as ''Ellen''s Isle.'' The oak, old in Scott''s day, is The castle was built of the stones of the old Roman wall which passes The castle was a ruin in Scott''s day, presenting an appearance very It was characteristic of Scott, not only that every old ruined castle The old castle looked more like a prison than a king''s palace, and


id: 45306
author: Goodkind, Ben
txt: ./txt/45306.txt
cache: ./cache/45306.txt
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
summary:
  they live, act, and what they do, and Billy wanted to know how Mormons much in old England, Billy told me, and have to serve long years at morning a long train full of empty cars came our way and we made it "Let''s hike out of this place, Billy," said I; "the best cure for the out a likely looking restaurant along the water front where a good meal The angry man now got the thought through his noddle that Billy wasn''t We got out of the place all right, the old man and I telling Billy said it was like getting money from home. "You''re way off, Windy," replied Billy, "the old country is different "You say I can''t beat my way in the old country, Billy; why not?" asked After a good long time I got down in the steerage and saw the steerage

title:
  An American Hobo in Europe A True Narrative of the Adventures of a Poor American at Home and in the Old Country


