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...old me to go immediately to Mr. Mylius, the auctioneer, on the other side of the castle, and ask him if he had disposed of the books which had been l... ...that I must go directly to Mr. Mylius, the auctioneer, on the other side of the castle, and ask him if he had disposed of the books at auction which... ...parted this life. Again, some hundred or so of years later, she was seen at the Castle of Neuhaus, in Bohemia, when she casually observed to the pri... ...ved spectre was seen not long since by the night sentinels on guard at the royal castle at Berlin – and now Berlin society is all agog with a delicio... ...d Kirkaldy of Grange, who, during the civil war of that period, was holding the Castle of Edinburgh in the cause of Mary Queen of Scots and of the A... ... of Grange, who, during the civil war of that period, was holding the Castle of Edinburgh in the cause of Mary Queen of Scots and of the Anti-Protes... ...ssor, Mr. Lawson, Mr. Lindsay, Minister of Leith, and the elders and deacons of Edinburgh, all of whom he addressed in a farewell speech, ―They... ...ed to surrender, whereupon he was condemned to death as a traitor and hanged at Edinburgh on the 3d of August, 1572, at four o‘clock in the afternoo...

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... I earn? I have forgotten. Was I ever paid? I would like to return to the castle and walk through that Sala; I would like to be alone; I would like ... ... pawns; I imagine there are no knights; the good bishop has vanished; the castle has gone; there is no stalemate; instead, we are walking across che... ...thy seamen on the coast, mountaineers, shepherds, brig- ands at the Borgia castle. Here, at Cloux, I have found a girl whose profile is perfect: I ha... ...e little ships in the harbor, ships and pounding waves. Let’s walk in the castle garden, among the senatorial statues; I played the lute and both of... ...rld, and beyond this, the tranquility of poetry itself. She’ll share her Edinburgh, her theatre, her books, her home by the lake, her work for the ... ... Shakespeare and Ann, at ruins of Kenilworth castle, copulating in the grass, happy in their bucolic lust. The two t... ...imes...give me your hand. Jonson received a letter from Ellen, Ellen in Edinburgh, writing at home, ex- pressing her friendly concern for me: “Wil... ...ames.” –S– Without asking me, Jonson wrote to Ellen, and she came from Edinburgh. Was it her coming that pulled me through? Her care, beauty, her...

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...cial essence of religion. Their 10. Martin Buber, I and Thou, T & T Clark, Edinburgh, 1959. WHAT IS RELIGION? 7 principal concern is that religion sh... ...s quoted in Happold, p. 220.) 80. Martin Buber, I and Thou, T. & T. Clark, Edinburgh, 1959, p. 82. MYSTICISM 123 beyond knowing precisely by not se... ...e steep sand bank with my three companions from next door or building sand castles with them, and in full summer climbing and reclimbing a very specia... ...Indian, Crossroad, New York, 1982. Buber, Martin: I and Thou, T & T Clark, Edinburgh, 1959. Conze, Edward (tr.): Buddhist Scriptures, Penguin Classics...

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...Thank you. Morgan, Miss MacLeish trained for many years in her home city of Edinburgh. She is a brilliant teacher who both uses and instructs in th... ...cy doilies and red paper dragons. Next to the tree was a painted flatboard castle with turrets topping its four corners. Paper pennants cut to loo... ...en he tried to pull her into his lap, Morgan danced away to stand beside the castle. From the floor beside it, she picked up a wooden-spoon wand wit... ...ct honor to present to you…” She rapped her wand soundly three times on the castle gate. “The Christmas Knight!” Like a jack springing out of its ... ... Like a jack springing out of its box, Ronan popped to his feet behind the castle wall. He beat his little fists against his paper chain mail tuni... ...ny, Ronan mounted the mop horse and strutted back and forth in front of the castle. Smiling and winking at his father, he paused to salute him by b...

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...Excerpt: Young people. Dunbar Castle, standing on steep rocks above the North Sea, was not only inaccessible on that side, but from its donjon tower commanded a magnificent view, both of the expanse of waves, taking purple tints from the shadows of the cl...

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...w began to fa’, Lady Margaret was walking up and down, Looking over her castle wa’.’ THE BATTLEMENTS OF A CASTLE were, in disturbed times, the only... ...recreation-ground of the ladies and play-place of the young people. Dunbar Castle, standing on steep rocks above the North Sea, was not only inaccessi... ...e him with caresses and rhymes, so as to prevent his interference with the castle- 4 Two Penniless Princesses building of the others, with their smal... ...e matter-of-fact tone of a practical young lady; ‘mewed up in these dismal castles, we shall never get princely husbands like our sisters. I might be ... ...on by a noted freebooter, Patrick Hepburn of Hailes, and carried to Dunbar Castle, probably to serve as hostages, for they were fairly well treated, t... ... to be left, to be passed on, when oc- casion served, to the Sisterhood at Edinburgh. The fresh morning breezes over the world of heather bright- ened... ...lled, explained that he was a leal lad called Geordie, whom he had seen in Edinburgh, and who wished to join them, go to France, and see the world und... ...e had accompanied his father in the last riding of the Scots Parliament at Edinburgh; and this so far satisfied Sir Patrick that he consented to recei...

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...May, in the year 1660, at nine o?clock in the morning, when the sun, already high in the heavens, was fast absorbing the dew from the ramparts of the castle of Blois a little cavalcade, composed of three men and two pages, re-entered the city by the bridge, without producing any other effect upon the passengers of the quay beyond a first movement of the hand to the head, a...

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...APTER 1 The Letter. TOWARDS THE MIDDLE of the month of May, in the year 1660, at nine o’clock in the morning, when the sun, already high in the heaven... ...s, in the purest French then spoken in France: “There is Monsieur returning from hunting.” And that was all. Whilst, however, the horses were climbing... ...f Henry IV . It was not then, or, at least it ought not to have been, a trifling source of pride for the city of Blois, that Gaston of Orleans had cho... ...aster till the next hawking-day. 5 Dumas So much for the ennui extra muros; of the ennui of the interior we will give the reader an idea if he will w... ... was his equerry; he on the right, in green, was the grand veneur. One of the pages carried two gerfalcons upon a perch, the other a hunting-horn, whi... ...ire, I think that by taking things from the begin- ning I shall have a better chance of touching the heart of your majesty.” “Speak on, my brother — s...

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...NFINISHED NOVEL IN LETTERS ................................................................................................................ 34 LESLEY CASTLE .......................................................................................................................... 35 THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND ........................................................................

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................................................................... 34 LESLEY CASTLE ....................................................................... ...e-coach, in which I instantly took a place, determined to proceed in it to Edinburgh, where I hoped to find some kind some pitying Freind who would re... ...had persuaded Lady Dorothea to accom- pany them. That they had arrived at Edinburgh a few Days before and from thence had made daily Excur- sions int... ... order to be removed from any of his former Acquaintance, had driven it to Edinburgh from whence he went to Sterling every other Day. That Philippa s... ...e to us, to visit the Highlands in a Postchaise than merely to travel from Edinburgh to Sterling and from Sterling to Edinburgh every other Day in a c... ...ones a Bricklayer and that my Father was one Gregory Staves a Staymaker of Edinburgh. This is however of little consequence for as our Mothers were c... ...UTTERELL. UTTERELL. Lesle Lesle Lesle Lesle Lesley Cas y Cas y Cas y Cas y Castle Janr tle Janr tle Janr tle Janr tle Janry 3r y 3... ...57, Matilda and I continue secluded from Mankind in our old and Mouldering Castle, which is situated two miles from Perth on a bold projecting Rock, a... ...ill therefore have no way of de- ciding the Affair but by coming to Lesley-Castle, and by a personal acquaintance with Louisa, determine for yourself....

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.................................................................................................... 87 THE ANTIGONE OF SOPHOCLES, AS REPRESENTED ON THE EDINBURGH STAGE . 98 THE MARQUESS WELLESLEY 1 ............................................................................................ 125 MILTON VERSUS SOUTHEY AND LANDOR ....................................................

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......................... 87 THE ANTIGONE OF SOPHOCLES, AS REPRESENTED ON THE EDINBURGH STAGE . 98 THE MARQUESS WELLESLEY 1 ................................ ...ther Southey held at this time his ap- pointment to the editorship of the ‘Edinburgh Annual Reg- ister.’ If he did, no doubt in the domestic section o... ..., which Pericles created, beautified, promoted. I protest, when seeing the Edinburgh theatre’s programme, that a note dated from the Vatican would not... ...prang up, from nobody knew where, that Mr. Murray meant to reproduce it in Edinburgh. What more natural? Connected so nearly with the noblest house of... ...s so much, why not sacrifice to the grandeur of the Antique? I was then in Edinburgh, or in its neighborhood; and one morning, at a casual assembly of... ...hird marriage in a third generation, they obtained in the county of Meath, Castle Dengan (otherwise Dangan) with lordships as plentiful as blackberrie... ...tle Dengan (otherwise Dangan) with lordships as plentiful as blackberries. Castle Dangan came to them in the year of our Lord, 1411, i.e. before Aginc... ...came to them in the year of our Lord, 1411, i.e. before Agincourt: and, in Castle Dangan did Field-marshal, the man of Water- loo, draw his first brea... ...a pretty long spell for one family: four hundred and thirty-five years has Castle Dangan furnished a nursery for the Wellesley piccaninnies. Amongst t...

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...are very ancient ruins, which the people call the ruins of King Arhtur’s Castle. Kent is the most famous of the seven Saxon kingdoms, because the Ch... ...his lady, he despatched his favourite courtier, Athelwold, to her father’s castle in Devonshire, to see if she were really as charming as fame reporte... ... boy was hunting, one day, down in Dorsetshire, when he rode near to Corfe Castle, where Elfrida and Ethelred lived. Wishing to see them kindly, he ro... ...g to see them kindly, he rode away from his attendants and galloped to the castle gate, where he arrived at twilight, and blew his hunting horn. ‘You ... ...n was not as careful as he should have been, but encamped at Rosslyn, near Edinburgh, with his army divided into three parts. The Scottish forces saw ... ...ded homage of the King of that country. This being refused, he advanced to Edinburgh, but did little there; for, his army being in want of provisions,... ...him. They encountered on the banks of the river Esk, within a few miles of Edinburgh; and there, after a little skirmish, the Protector made such mode... ...itives were slain without mercy. The ground for four miles, all the way to Edinburgh, was A Child’s Histroy of England 302 strewn with dead men, and ... ...against their sovereign. All these proceedings led to a treaty of peace at Edinburgh, under which the French consented to depart from the kingdom. By ...

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...Sir Marmaduke; his wife keepd her chamber readie to be brought to bed. The castle being over, and Lambert farre enough, I resolved to goe to bed everi... ...ited him to bring forward in an unmingled state. The passage occurs in the Edinburgh Review, No. 55, containing 12 Sir Walter Scott a criticism on Iv... ...tre of this wood rose the towers, or rather the chimneys, of the house, or castle, as it was called, destined for the end of their journey. As usual a... ...er- boxes, had procured for Darnlinvarach the dignified appel- lation of a castle. It was surrounded by a low court-yard wall, within which were the u... ...d though they be, they’ll scarce eat up all the cattle that’s going on the castle mains.” “Teil care an they did,” said Donald, “an that were the wars... ...ssed in black velvet, and wearing a gold chain like a modern magistrate of Edinburgh, but who was, in fact, steward of the household to the Marquis of... ...no longer to remain in the command of that opposed to him, but returned to Edinburgh, and there threw up his commission, under pretence that his army ... ...e was an event infinitely more important and desirable than the capture of Edinburgh. The latter event could only afford their clansmen a little trans... ...magined himself displaying the royal banner from the reconquered Castle of Edinburgh, detach- ing assistance to a monarch whose crown depended upon hi...

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...rt Louis Stevenson E DINGBURGH PICTURESQUE NOTES by Robert Louis Stevenson EDINBURGH CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY. THE ANCIENT AND FAMOUS metropolis of the... ... all the carse of Stirling, you can see the first snows upon Ben Ledi. But Edinburgh pays cruelly for her high seat in one of the vilest climates unde... ...a voyage to brighter skies. Happy the passengers who shake off the dust of Edinburgh, and have heard for the last time the cry of the 4 EDINGBURGH PI... ...one, counts lovers in her train. And, indeed, even by her kindest friends, Edinburgh is not con- sidered in a similar sense. These like her for many r... ...s a curiosity. The Palace of Holyrood has been left aside in the growth of Edinburgh, and stands grey and silent in a workman’s quarter and among brew... ...nother in a most admired disorder; while, above all, the brute mass of the Castle and the summit of Arthur’s Seat look down upon these imitations with... ... the goldsmith. Up on the Pentland Hills, that so quietly look down on the Castle with the city lying in waves around it, those mad and dismal fanatic... ...il of diluvial matter, protected, in some subsidence of the waters, by the Castle cliffs which fortify it to the west. On the one side of it and the o... ... their lower, broader, and more gentle hill-tops. Thus, the quarter of the Castle over-tops the whole city and keeps an open view to sea and land. It ...

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...he feeble interference of the En- glish Council of State, fortifying their castles, increasing the number of their dependants, reducing all around the... ..., to the feu- dal chains with which they were loaded. At court, and in the castles of the great nobles, where the pomp and state of a court was emulat... ...name; but becomes a Norman, and is called pork, when she is carried to the Castle-hall to feast among the nobles what dost thou think of this, friend ... ... *Negro Slaves. 16 Ivanhoe upon the halls and bowers of an ancient feudal castle. The Prior mingled in the sports of the field with more than due eag... ... when at a convenient distance from the mansion, and to conduct him to the castle of Philip de Malvoisin, or to that of Reginald Front-de-Boeuf.” It i... ...ine of the Advocates’ Li- brary, and has been reprinted by Mr David Laing, Edinburgh. ** Vol. ii. p. 167. 472 Ivanhoe ing-match in Sherwood Forest, i... ...le to quiet travellers like myself.—L. T . The last news which I hear from Edinburgh is, that the gentleman who fills the situation of Secretary to th...

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...break a feeble lance In the fair fields of old romance; Or seek the moated castle’s cell, Where long through talisman and spell, While tyrants ruled, ... ...entive to my lay, A knightly tale of Albion’s elder day. CANTO FIRST . THE CASTLE. I. Day set on Norham’s castled steep, And T weed’s fair river, broa... ...ower, So heavily it hung. The scouts had parted on their search, The castle gates were barred; Above the gloomy portal arch, Timing his footstep... ...roud, Before the dark array. Beneath the sable palisade That closed the castle barricade, His bugle-horn he blew; The warder hasted from the wal... ... not To fire a noble salvo-shot: Lord Marmion waits below!” Then to the castle’s lower ward Sped forty yeomen tall, The iron-studded gates unbar... ... In the succeeding lay. INTRODUCTION TO CANTO FIFTH. To GEORGE ELLIS, ESQ. Edinburgh. When dark December glooms the day, And takes our autumn joys awa...

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...one through a London book- seller. This I compared, line by line, with the Edinburgh edi- 4 The Lady of the Lake tion of 1821 (from the Harvard Libra... ...god ever decked, Or mosque of Eastern architect. Nor were these earth-born castles bare, Nor lacked they many a banner fair; For, from their shivered ... ..., Emerging from entangled wood, But, wave-encircled, seemed to float, Like castle girdled with its moat; Yet broader floods extending still Divide the... .... Ellen, I am no courtly lord, But one who lives by lance and sword, Whose castle is his helm and shield, His lordship the embattled field. What from ... ...ered his blows like wintry rain; 87 Sir Walter Scott And, as firm rock or castle-roof Against the winter shower is proof, The foe, invulnerable still... ...from the many critical notices of the poem. The verdict of Jeffrey, in the Edinburgh Review, on its first appearance, has been generally endorsed:— “U... ...are, Rich. III. iii. 2. 77, iv. 4. 165. Cf. the name of Holyrood Palace in Edinburgh. See ii. 221 below. 451. Romantic. The MS. has “enchanting.” 457.... ...s Journey through North Britain. London, 1808, 4to, i. 175). “Mr. Gunn, of Edinburgh, has lately published a curious Essay upon the Harp and Harp Musi... ... shat- tered estates of Angus and Morton (History of the House of Douglas, Edinburgh, 1743, vol. ii. p. 160).” 235. Guerdon. Reward; now rarely used e...

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...t, the rock had been scarped away on three sides, so that the walls of the castle rose sheer from the steep descent, except where the platform was con... ...ble, except by the lowering of a draw- 6 The Caged Lion bridge. Glenuskie Castle was thus nearly impregnable, so long as it was supplied with water, ... ... possible provision had been made, by guiding a stream into the court. The castle was necessarily narrow and confined; its mas- sive walls took up muc... ... the least tincture of ‘the noble science’ indicated that the owner of the castle was of royal Stewart blood, but of a younger branch, and not yet adm... ... feet of man and horse, and yet, in truth, the highway between Berwick and Edinburgh, which descended from a heathery moorland into a somewhat spaciou... ...o doubtful, since no one could guess whether Walter Stewart would make for Edinburgh or for Doune. With the utmost agility Sir James sprang up the sid... ...hen once one gets on a Roman way. I’ll learn the trick, and have them from Edinburgh to Bordeaux ere ten years are out; and then, what with traffic an... ...fiting by the wisdom of Sir David Drummond, and had then been at Stirling, Edinburgh, and Perth. On his way back, falling in with Malcolm in his dis- ... ...dress and equip- ments, the work of Glenuskie looms, supplemented by a few Edinburgh purchases, was uncouth enough to attract some scornful glances fr...

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...oyment. Though I cannot conceive a soldier refusing to incur the risk, yet to be hanged for a spy is a disgusting business; and I was relieved to be h... ...ough I cannot conceive a soldier refusing to incur the risk, yet to be hanged for a spy is a disgusting business; and I was relieved to be held a pris... ...at un- gainly, loutish fellows, with no more than a mere barrack- room smartness of address: indeed, you could have seen our army nowhere more discred... ...nly, loutish fellows, with no more than a mere barrack- room smartness of address: indeed, you could have seen our army nowhere more discreditably rep... ...hing to be made of him!’ he cried. ‘A perfect heathen. If we could only find the weapon!’ But the weapon had ceased to exist. A little resined twine w... ...ech, those that would not have held a book upsidedown would have torn the pages out for pipe-lights. For I must repeat again that our body of prisoner... ... that would not have held a book upsidedown would have torn the pages out for pipe-lights. For I must repeat again that our body of prisoners was exce... ...farther down, an outwork raised its turret; and across the valley I had a view of that long terrace of Princes Street which serves as a promenade to t... ... sink to be a phantom memory, with which (in after days) she might amuse a husband and chil- dren! No, the impression must be clenched, the wax im- pr...

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...ublic meeting, called for establishing a professional The- atrical Fund in Edinburgh, that the communication took 8 Chronicles of the Canongate place... ...cott Gravestones of the Covenanters who had died while impris- oned in the Castle of Dunnottar, to which many of them were committed prisoners at the ... ...these Novels, by which, for ex- ample, Wolf’s Hope is identified with Fast Castle in Berwickshire, Tillietudlem with Draphane in Clydesdale, and the v... ...coast of Scotland affords upon its headlands and prom- ontories fifty such castles as Wolf ’s Hope; every county has a valley more or less resembling ... ... Hope; every county has a valley more or less resembling Glendearg; and if castles like 14 Chronicles of the Canongate Tillietudlem, or mansions like... ...latter situation he held at the accession of King George III.— who died at Edinburgh in 1774. He married Margaret, sec- ond daughter of Sir William Cu... ...nd the reader is accordingly presented with the following extract from the Edinburgh Weekly Journal for Wednesday, 28th February, 1827.] The Theatrica... ... letter, which we have received from the President:— To the Editor of the “Edinburgh Weekly Journal.” Sir,—I am extremely sorry I have not leisure to ... ...ly intended for the purpose of the hour. I am, sir, Your obedient servant, Edinburgh, Monday. Walter Scott. The Theatrical Fund Dinner, which took pla...

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...le in the corner. ‘It is too dark for thee to see it.’ ‘But where was your castle?’ continued the girl. ‘I am sure you have lived in a castle.’ Insens... ...st lain in a shepherd’s hut. Forget all, as though thou hadst slept in the castle on the hill that fades away with the day.’ She ended hastily, for he... ... high-spirited, out- of-door creature, whom the close conventionalities of castle life and even whipping could not tame, and who had been the despair ... ...is best. —Wordsworth. THE LADY T HRELKELD stood in the lower storey of her castle, a sort of rough-built hall or crypt, with a stone stair leading upw... ...f rough-built hall or crypt, with a stone stair leading upward to the real castle hall above, while this served as a place where she met her husband’s... ...ho sped along the better for their loads having been lightened by sales in Edinburgh, where he had hardly obtained skins enough to make up for the wei...

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...Roy MacGregor, at the Clachan of Balquhidder. Invernahyle chanced to be in Edinburgh when Paul Jones came into the Frith of Forth, and though then an ... ...ction, it is not unpleasant to compare it with those of the last war, when Edinburgh, besides regular forces and militia, furnished a vol- unteer brig... ...ey, a T ale of other Days,’ must not every novel reader have anticipated a castle scarce less than that of Udolpho, of which the eastern wing had long... ...hours, which she fortu- nately finds always the means of transporting from castle to cottage, although she herself be sometimes obliged to jump out of... ...y protracted suits, is the genuine descendant of the baron who wrapped the castle of his competitor in flames, and knocked him on the head as he endea... ...s claim to the hand of Lady Emily. He had even, before leaving Blandeville Castle, the address to extort from her father a consent to her union with t... ...London, he proceeded on horseback, then the general mode of travelling, to Edinburgh, and from thence to Dundee, a seaport on the eastern coast of Ang... ...ed sev- eral hints to the description in the text. The House of Dean, near Edinburgh, has also some points of resemblance with T ully-Veolan. The auth... ... hatchet at the end of a pole, called a Lochaber-axe, [The T own- guard of Edinburgh were, till a late period, armed with this weapon when on their po...

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...o Heidelberg. The weather was growing pretty warm, —very warm, in fact. So we left the valley and took quarters at the Schloss Hotel, on the hill, abo... ...est that can be imagined, too. Out of a billowy upheaval of vivid green foli- age, a rifle-shot removed, rises the huge ruin of Heidelberg 9 A Tramp ... ... discrowned, beaten by the storms, but royal still, and beautiful. It is a fine sight to see the evening sunlight suddenly strike the leafy declivity ... ...ike the leafy declivity at the Castle’s base and dash up it and drench it as with a luminous spray, while the adjacent groves are in deep shadow. Behi... ...while the adjacent groves are in deep shadow. Behind the Castle swells a great dome-shaped hill, forest- clad, and beyond that a nobler and loftier on... ...el, 35; Lisbon, 36; Liverpool, 36; Prague, 37; Madras, 37; Bucharest, 39; St. Petersburg, 40; Trieste, 40; Alexandria (Egypt), 43; Dublin, 48; Calcutt...