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...sisting of mighty cheeses and mightier ale, pheasants and venison, and the Scottish returns being vested in grouse, white hares, pick- led salmon, and... ...hom she probably deemed some- what susceptible, against the fascination of Scottish beauty. She allowed that the northern part of the island contained... ...their heritage, since the days of the gracious King Duncan. CHAPTER VIII A SCOTTISH MANOR-HOUSE SIXTY YEARS SINCE IT WAS ABOUT NOON when Captain W ave... ...been built at a period when castles were no longer necessary, and when the Scottish architects had not yet acquired the art of designing a domestic re... ...t at a period when castles were no longer necessary, and when the Scottish architects had not yet acquired the art of designing a domestic residence. ... ...ovecot, or Columbarium, as the owner called it, was no small resource to a Scottish laird of that period, whose scanty rents were eked out by the cont... ...ucted through one or two of those long awkward passages with which ancient architects studied to puzzle the inhabitants of the houses which they plann...

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...t have been in Europe; the moun- tain forms behind modelled in little from the Alps, and the forest which clustered on their ramparts a growth no more... ...s projection, and one of the 48 In The South Seas most agreeable verandahs in the tropics), a handful of whites of varying nationality, mostly French... ...own 49 Robert Louis Stevenson loses itself in a low wood of many species of acacia; and deep in the wood a ruinous wall encloses the cemetery of the ... ...tary, or at least for silent, inmates. Here it is that Mr. M’Callum, with a Shakespeare and a Burns, enjoys the society of the break- ers. His name an... ...ank rum behind a door. But there were others thoroughly consistent. I said the virtues of the race were bourgeois and puritan; and how bourgeois is th... ...here I would sometimes join them; the place had a most singular appearance; and I must say I was greatly taken with the fancy, and joined with relish ...

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...hters of the family; but Edward was the only son;—descended, too, from the Scottish hero Wallace, as the old gentleman would sometimes ad- monish him;... ...ioned. In those very days while Arthur Coningsby was getting read amid the Scottish moors, “in June, 1833,” Sterling, at Bonn in the Rhine-country, fe... ...na- ture of the whole contrivance, which thus compels them to be their own architects, machinists, scene-painters, and actors! In fact, the artifice s...

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... Horace was—to hint at the possibility of Rupert’s having been lost on the Scottish mountains, blown up on the railroad, or sunk in a steam-vessel—to ... ...ee Papa I do not know when. It really was a very convenient thing when the architects of the old Ger- man cathedrals used to take a desperate leap fro...

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..., from the western dialects of Ayrshire, &c.! And I have heard it said, by Scottish purists in this matter, that even Sir W alter Scott is chargeable ... ...Cambridge, with a patronizing flourish, to imitate some one or more of the Scottish universities in founding such sys- tems of aliment for poor studen... ...had allowed any opening for the foundation of col- leges or academic life. Scottish bursaries, or exhibitions (a term which Shakspeare uses, very near... ...nave that personally I have known. It may illustrate the way in which lady architects, without professional aid, are and ever will be defrauded, that,... ...ce was given to a Royal Commission, sent to investigate one or more of the Scottish universities. In the German universi- ties, every professor holds ... ...l channel open to their instincts of abhorrence. The most important of the Scottish professorships—those which are fundamen- tally morticed to the mor...

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...rt, of one or two storeys (added to the range of attics which provin- cial architects love so well), looked almost lost amid the expanses of street an... ...lderliness and dignity as to cut a couple of capers after the fashion of a Scottish highlander—alighting neatly, each time, on the flat of his heels. ... ...letting my thoughts wander! What a fool I am!” So saying, he exchanged his Scottish costume (of a shirt and nothing else) for attire of a more Europea...

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...dier’s, his broad, strong shoulders were those of the Caryatides which the architects of the Middle Ages intro- duced into some Italian palaces, remot... ...dull rebellion, of which Esther her- self did not know the cause. Like the Scottish sheep, she wanted to pasture in solitude, she could not conquer th... ...o you I speak), if you bestow mil- lions, get a poet or two to assist your architects if you wish to save the cradle of Paris, the cradle of kings, wh... ...s the first floor—displays a long row of Gothic columns, between which the architects of I know not what period have built up two floors of cells to a...

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...d. And what did the other man say? The Athenians were to choose one of two architects for 230 Essays: Book the First a very great building they had d... ... Guerente, who wrote a comment upon Aristotle: George Buchanan, that great Scottish poet: and Marc Antoine Muret (whom both France and Italy have ackn... ...the same operation upon other men that it has upon me, but when I hear our architects thunder out their bombast words of pilasters, ar- chitraves, and...

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...ows that have been making movies for ten years how to direct ‘em; and tell architects how to build towns; and make the maga- zines publish nothing but... ...alley of Massachu- setts Avenue, as she was rested by the integrity of the Scottish Rite Temple, she loved the city as she loved no one save Hugh. She... ...mining-settlement like a tumor. A booming semi- city with parks and clever architects, visited by famous pianists and unctuous lecturers, but irritabl...

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...hew of a Irish baron by his mother’s side, and his wife was the niece of a Scottish earl. He had for years held some cleri- cal office appertaining to... ...n her chamber, each fit to stand alone. The nine-and-twenty shields of the Scottish heroes were less independent, and hardly more potent to withstand ... ...y homely folk, nothing can equal the square mullioned windows of the Tudor architects. The hall was hung round with family female insipidities by Lely...

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... on the Clyde. The name has a certain air of being Norse. But the story of Scottish nomenclature is confounded by a continual pro- cess of translation... ...o his years in class which will have a meaning for all who have studied in Scottish Universities. He mentions a recommendation made by the professor o... ...please or vex your mother. It is there- fore proper that you do not roamp [Scottish indeed] too much about, and that you learn your lessons.’ ‘I went ... ... is in comparison a habitable, homely place, well supplied with towns; the Scottish presents hundreds of miles of savage islands and desolate moors. T... ...e of affairs, only sixty years ago, with the three largest clusters of the Scottish Archipelago; and forty-seven years earlier, when Thomas Smith bega... ...ts and figures, by the same writer in a letter to the Civil Engineers’ and Architects’ Journal, 1862. 61 Records of a Family of Engineers rock those ...

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...ated in the spring of 1646. And the brief explosions of insurrection or of Scottish invasion, which occurred on sub- sequent occasions, were all local... ...s as a surviving friend of Lord Essex, who was viewed as the martyr to his Scottish politics, there can be no doubt that Shakspeare had acquired the f... ...d brow” succeeding to another, until he comes to an eighth apparition of a Scottish king, “Who bears a glass Which shows him many more; and some he se... ...and for reasons resting upon the same ultimate philosophy, were the mighty architects of 55 Thomas de Quincey the Greek tragedy . They also were mono... ...the level of the com- petition, but even Homer “with his tail on,” (as the Scottish Highlanders say of then chieftains when belted by their cer- emoni...

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...rer wit, I pray you to refer it back to this night, and point to that as a Scottish passage for evermore. I thank you again and again, with the energy... ...hearty. I drooped to see twenty Christophers in one. I began to think that Scottish life was all light and no shadows, and I began to doubt that beaut... ... set fire to the House of Commons; the two houses were re duced to ashes; architects were called in to build others; we are now in the second million... ...—I am no stranger—and I say it with the deepest gratitude—to the warmth of Scottish hearts; but the warmth of your present welcome almost de prives m...

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...ay. The country, I have said, was mixed sand-hill and links; links being a Scottish name for sand which has ceased drift- ing and become more or less ... ... stood for some time gazing up at it and mentally gauging the skill of the architects and the consideration of the two families. There seemed to be no...

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..., to the half-breed assistant at a Burmese oil-well, to the self-educating Scottish miner or the Egyptian clerk, the Empire and the English language s... ...ns, an immense tradition, that this constant mucking about of builders and architects is destroying al- most as effectually as removal to a new site. ...

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...elf from pecuniary embarrassments were unavailing. At the king’s death his Scottish loyalty caused him to side with those who opposed the Parliament. ... ... whose shapes were shown to us, not over-well understood by our engineers, architects, and other disciples of Vitruvius; as Master Philibert de l’Orme...