Proceedings of the Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow, المجلد 32The Society, 1901 |
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الصفحة 234 - Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased ; Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow ; Raze out the written troubles of the brain ; And, with some sweet, oblivious antidote, Cleanse the stuffed bosom of that perilous stuff, Which weighs upon the heart ? Doct.
الصفحة 76 - The old order changeth, yielding place to new, And God fulfils himself in many ways, Lest one good custom should corrupt the world Comfort thyself: what comfort is in me?
الصفحة 215 - And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I will be brief: Your noble son is mad : Mad call I it : for, to define true madness, What is't, but to be nothing else but mad: But let that go.
الصفحة 220 - With a heart of furious fancies, Whereof I am commander : With a burning spear, And a horse of air, To the wilderness I wander; With a knight of ghosts and shadows, I summoned am to Tourney : Ten leagues beyond The wide world's end; Methinks it is no journey...
الصفحة 4 - NOT A PARTICLE OF ICE OF ANY DESCRIPTION WAS TO BE SEEN.
الصفحة 133 - And men off gud dyscretyowne Suld excuse, and love Huchowne, That cunnand wes in literature. He made the gret Gest off Arthure, And the Awntyre off Gawane, The Pystyll als off Swete Swsaue. He wes curyws in hys style, Fayre off facund, and subtille, And ay to plesans and delyte Made in metyre mete his dyte, 4330 Lytill or nowcht nevyrtheles Waverand fra the suthfastnes.
الصفحة 218 - A stump of a tree is shown as an altar, probably the memorial of one of stone ; but the curiosity of the place is the well of the saint ; of power unspeakable in cases of lunacy. The patient is brought into the sacred island, is made to kneel before the altar, where his attendants leave an offering in money, he is then brought to the well, and sips some of the holy water, a second offering is made ; that done, he is thrice dipped in the lake ; and the same operation is repeated every day for some...
الصفحة 133 - Timor mortis conturbat me. I se that makaris amang the laif Playis heir ther pageant, syne gois to graif; Sparit is nocht ther faculte; Timor mortis conturbat me.
الصفحة 5 - Had it been possible to have found a place of security upon any part of this coast where we might have wintered in sight of the brilliant burning mountain (Erebus), and at so short a distance from the magnetic pole ; both of these interesting spots might easily have been reached by travelling parties in the following Spring. It was, however, some satisfaction to know that we had approached the pole some hundreds of miles nearer than any of our predecessors.
الصفحة 218 - OS, and before sunrise next morning. The dipped persons were instructed to take three stones from the bottom of the pool, and, walking three times round each of three cairns on the bank, throw a stone into each. They were next conveyed to the ruins of St...