 I have no dearer aim than to have it in my power, unplagued with the routine of business, for which, heaven knows ! I am unfit enough, to make leisurely pilgrimages through Caledonia ; to sit on the fields of her battles ; to wander on the romantic banks...  Littell's Living Age - Página 531847Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | John Wilson - 1857 - 454 páginas
...enough, to make leisurely pilgrimages through Caledonia ; to sit on the fields of her battles, to wander on the romantic banks of her rivers, and to muse by the stately towers or venerable ruins, once the honoured abodes of her heroes. But these are all Utopian thoughts ; I have dallied long enough with... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1859 - 736 páginas
...— to make leisurely pilgrimages through Caledonia; to sit on the fields of her battles, to wander on the romantic banks of her rivers, and to muse by the stately towers or venerable ruins, once the honoured abodes of her heroes. But these are all Utopian thoughts. I have dallied long enough with... | |
 | Hugh MacDonald - 1860 - 472 páginas
...him " to make leisurely pilgrimages through Caledonia, to sit on the fields of her battles, to wander on the romantic banks of her rivers, and to muse by the stately towers or venerable ruins, once the honoured abodes of her heroes." Almost every individual of an imaginative temperament must have experienced... | |
 | John Wilson - 1861 - 236 páginas
...enough, to make leisurely pilgrimages through Caledonia ; to sit on the fields of her battles, to wander on the romantic banks of her rivers, and to muse by...venerable ruins, once the honored abodes of her heroes. But these are all Utopian thoughts ; I have dallied long enough with life ; 't is time to be in earnest.... | |
 | Samuel Graham - 1862 - 360 páginas
...leisurely pilgrimages through his native country ; to sit on the fields of her battles ; to wander on the romantic banks of her rivers, and to muse by the stately towers and venerable ruins, once the honoured abodes of her heroes. We may also quote instances of enlightened... | |
 | James M'Kie - 1866 - 48 páginas
...to make, leisurely, Pilgrimages through Caledonia; to sit on the Fields of her Battles ; to wander on the Romantic Banks of her Rivers ; and to muse...stately Towers, or venerable Ruins, once the honored abodesof her Heroes." — BURNS. Deptford : Printed for the Author, by W. BROWN, and Sold by SHERWOOD,... | |
 | Robert Burns, Alexander Smith - 1868 - 688 páginas
...enough, to make leisurely pilgrimages through Caledonia ; to sit on the fields of her battles ; to wander on the romantic banks of her rivers ; and to muse by the stately towers or venerable ruins, once the honoured abodes of her heroes. But these arc all Utopian thoughts : I have dallied long enough with... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1868 - 312 páginas
...make leisurely pilgrimage through Caledonia; to sit on the fields of lier battles; to wander on the banks of her rivers; and to muse by the stately towers or venerable ruins, once the honoured abodes of her heroes. But these are all Utopian thoughts : I have dallied long enough with... | |
 | Malcolm M'Lachlan Harper - 1876 - 336 páginas
...aim was to make leisurely journeys through Caledonia, to wander by the romantic banks of her streams, and to muse by the stately towers or venerable ruins, once the abode of her heroes." Musing beside this fragment of departed grandeur, he, " the world forgetting,... | |
 | Allan Cunningham, Charles Mackay - 1879 - 628 páginas
...enough, to make leisurely pilgrimages through Caledonia ; to sit on the fields of her battles ; to wander on the romantic banks of her rivers ; and to muse by the stately towers or venerable ruins, once the honoured abodes of her heroes. But these are all Utopian thoughts: I have dallied long enough with... | |
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