Geography reading books, adapted to the requirements of the new code of 1880, Part 3 |
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basin beautiful Ben Nevis bridge Bristol Channel Britain called Cape Wrath Castle Chester Cheviots chief Clyde coal coast Cotswolds course cross Dornoch Firth Dover east eastward Edinburgh England English estuary Firth Firth of Tay flow German Ocean harbour Head height Highlands hills Holyhead Ireland island Isle lakes land Land's End leave Leith Liverpool Loch Katrine Lomond London look miles Milford Haven Moray Firth mountains mouth narrow North northern northward pass peninsula Pennines places Point of Ayre railway Ramsgate rising river river-basins rocks round sail sands Scarba Scotland seaport seen Severn shelter ships shore side Solway Solway Firth southward Staffa standing Stanford's Geog Estab steamer stop streams tell Thames tide town turn Tweed valley vessel Wales water-parting western westward Yorkshire
Popular passages
Page 173 - Can e'er untie the filial band, That knits me to thy rugged strand ! Still, as I view each well-known scene, Think what is now, and what hath been, Seems as, to me, of all bereft, Sole friends thy woods and streams were left ; And thus I love them better still, Even in eXtremity of ill. By Yarrow's streams still let me stray, Though none should guide my feeble way ; Still feel the breeze down Ettrick break, Although it chill my withered cheek ; Still lay my head by Teviot Stone, Though there, forgotten...
Page 173 - ... stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic child! Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain and the flood, Land of my sires ! what mortal hand Can e'er untie the filial band, That knits me to thy rugged strand! Still, as I view each well-known scene, Think what is now, and what hath been, Seems as, to me, of all bereft, Sole friends thy woods and streams were left; And thus I love them better still, Even in extremity of ill.
Page 203 - THERE is not in the wide world a valley so sweet, As that vale in whose bosom the bright waters meet ; Oh ! the last rays of feeling and life must depart, Ere the bloom of that valley shall fade from my heart.
Page 188 - Where the huge castle holds its state, And all the steep slope down Whose ridgy back heaves to the sky, Piled deep and massy, close and high, Mine own romantic town...
Page 139 - In all her length far winding lay, With promontory, creek, and bay, And islands that, empurpled bright, Floated amid the livelier light, And mountains, that like giants stand, To sentinel enchanted land.
Page 173 - IF thou would'st view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moonlight; For the gay beams of lightsome day Gild, but to flout, the ruins gray.
Page 188 - Piled deep and massy, close and high, Mine own romantic town ! But northward far, with purer blaze, On Ochil mountains fell the rays, And as each heathy top they kissed, It gleamed a purple amethyst.
Page 168 - Saxon gentlemen are laughing,' he said, 'because a poor man, such as me, thinks my life, or the life of six of my degree, is worth that of Vich Ian Vohr, it's like enough they may be very right ; but if they laugh because they think I would not keep my word, and come back to redeem him, I can tell them they ken neither the heart of a Hielandman, nor the honour of a gentleman.
Page 173 - When the broken arches are black in night, And each shafted oriel glimmers white, When the cold light's uncertain shower Streams on the ruined central tower; When buttress and buttress alternately Seem framed of ebon and ivory; When silver edges the imagery, And the scrolls that teach thee to live and die...
Page 209 - STANDARDS V. and VI. (One vol.) The History of Modern England from the Time of Henry VII. By Miss YONGE. SUPPLEMENTARY READING- BOOK. A Series of 'Studies,' or 'Pictures,' of the more important facts of English History from the Earliest Times.