Download or read book Romantic Edinburgh Classic Reprint written by John Geddie and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-23 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Romantic Edinburgh IN bringing out, for the Coronation Year of George V., a new and revised edition of this book, acknow ledgment has to be made to Bailie Macfarlane, Convener of the Museum Committee of the Town Council, for permission to reproduce, in colour or in black-and-white, a selection of the views of Old Edinburgh, in which the Municipal Museum is so rich. Thanks have also to be given to Mr T. L. Usher, of the Park Brewery, for leave to reproduce the water-colour drawing of Edinburgh, in the Opening year of the reign of Queen Victoria, that is to be found at page 212. The growth of the City and the removal of ancient landmarks in the interval since the first edition appeared, have rendered necessary many additions and alterations. Doubtless there are errors that remain uncorrected. It is hoped, however, that the volume provides - brought up to date - a Vaa'e Macaw which the explorer of Edinburgh can take with him on his walks, or profitably peruse at the fireside. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Edinburgh Classic Reprint written by Rosaline Masson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-06 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Edinburgh The earliest authentic romance of Edinburgh Castle is that of Malcolm Canmore and Queen Margaret; and the oldest building extant in Edinburgh is Queen Margaret's chapel in the Castle. The well-known story of Queen Margaret, the grand-niece of Edward the Confessor, is that she and her brother Edgar Atheling and her sister Christina all fled from England and William the Conqueror, and were wrecked in the Firth of Forth. The King of Scotland, Malcolm Canmore, was the son of that Duncan whom Macbeth put out of the way - in Scottish history as well as in Shakespeare's play, - and he had fled from the usurper, and had spent his years of exile at the Saxon Court of Edward the Confessor. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Lord Montagu s Page written by George Payne Rainsford James and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-24 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Lord Montagu's Page: An Historical Romance of the Seventeenth Century The Edinburgh Review concludes some comments upon our author with the remark, Our readers will perceive from these general observations that we estimate Mr. James's abilities, as a romance-writer, highly: his works are lively and interesting, and animated by a spirit of sound and healthy morality in feeling, and of natural delineation in character, which, we think, will secure for them a calm popularity which will last beyond the present day. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Select Remains of the Ancient Popular and Romance Poetry of Scotland Classic Reprint written by David Laing and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-14 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Select Remains of the Ancient Popular and Romance Poetry of Scotland As stated in the above passage, Lockhart met with young Laing when in Holland, where the latter went annually for the purpose of purchasing foreign books - his father having been one of the first Edinburgh booksellers who introduced Continental literature to any considerable extent. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Traditions of Edinburgh Classic Reprint written by Robert Chambers and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-20 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Traditions of Edinburgh I AM about to do what very few could do without emotion revise a book which I wrote forty-nve years ago. This little xwork came out in the Augustan days of Edinburgh, when (i Jeffrey and Scott, Wilson and the Ettrick Shepherd, Dugald Stewart and Alison, were daily giving the productions of their minds to the public, and while yet Archibald Constable acted as the unquestioned emperor of the publishing world. I was then an insignificant person of the age of twenty; yet, destitute as I was both of means and friends, I formed the hope of writing something which would attract attention. The subject I proposed was one lying readily at hand, the romantic things connected with Old Edinburgh. If, I calculated, a first part or number could be issued, materials for others might be expected to come in, for scores of old inhabitants, even up perhaps to the very oldest, ' would then contribute their reminiscences. The plan met with success. Materials almost unbounded came to me, chiefly from aged professional and mercantile gentlemen, who, usually, at my first introduction to them, started at my youthful appearance, having formed the notion that none but an old person would have thought of writing such a book. A friend gave me a letter to Mr Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe, who, I was told, knew the scandal of the time of Charles II. As well as he did the merest gossip of the day, and had much to say regarding the good society of a hundred years ago. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book John Galt written by Regina Hewitt and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this volume revalue the work of the Romantic-era Scottish writer John Galt, connecting his methods and goals with Scottish Enlightenment "conjectural" historiography and with later social theorizing. Emphasizing the construction, representation and use of social knowledge, the essays find new meaning in Galt's perceptions of the Atlantic and Mediterranean worlds in which he traveled, his attitudes toward community building and progress, and his innovations in fiction, drama, journalism and biography.
Download or read book Jane Seaton Or the King s Adventure written by James Grant and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-09-30 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Jane Seaton, or the King's Adventure: A Scottish Historical Romance Heaven save your grace, and bless our fair lady the queen l It was Jane Seton's voice, and the richness of its tone with the sweetness of her smile subdued James at once; and placing the rose in the diamond George that hung from the splendid collar of the garter, this gallant young king bowed low, and kissed his hand. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Springs of Romance in the Literature of Europe written by George Wyndham and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-10 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Springs of Romance in the Literature of Europe: An Address Delivered to the Students of the University of Edinburgh, October 1910 It was not easy to choose a theme for an address to Edinburgh University. Your unbounded belief in Rectorial discretion permits a latitude that is almost embarrassing. For guidance I had nothing but a sense of my own limitations and a prospect of the scene that confronts me. These suggested a search over the vast province of learning for some plot, not wholly unexplored by your Rector, that should also be linked with the fame of your ancient city. The world allows, and Scott's monument attests, that, from Edinburgh, and by his genius. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Blackwood s Edinburgh Magazine Vol 12 written by William Blackwood and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-27 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 12: July December, 1822 Sixty ancient ballads, Historical and Romantic; Translated from the Spanish, with Notes and Illustrations. By J. G. Lockhart. Ll.b. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Edinburgh written by Herbert Maxwell and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-11 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Edinburgh: A Historical Study IT was told of the devoted and thoroughly compe tent secretary of a certain Antiquarian Society that, when he retired on a pension earned by his long service, he ceased to show any interest in archaeology. When a friend expressed surprise that he should so completely have abandoned the study which had absorbed the energy of his active years, he replied: Well, I have had more than my share of it, and now I wish to God there were nothing older in the world than a new-laid egg! If, as is not improbable, the reader should find in the following pages more of a dead past than is to his taste, it will be fortunate for the author if impatience finds no sharper expression than by a sen tence, I think, in one of Lord Morley's books, to the effect that he did not in the least want to know what had happened in the past, except as it enabled him to see more clearly through what was happening in the present. So it is with the ancient capital of Scotland. To enter into the Spirit of the place as a Visitor - to love it intelligently as a citizen thereof - some know ledge of its chequered past is essential. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Scottish Cavalier Vol 1 written by James Grant and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-08 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Scottish Cavalier, Vol. 1: An Historical Romance From the historical and descriptive nature of the following tale, the Author intended that certain passages should be illustrated with notes, containing the local traditions and authorities from which it has been derived; but on second thoughts he has preferred confining these explanations to the preface. History will have rendered familiar to the reader the names of many who bear a prominent part in the career of Walter Fenton; but there are other characters of minor importance, who, though less known to fame than Dundee and Dunbarton, were beings who really lived and breathed, and acted a part in the great drama of those days. Among these, we may particularise Douglas, of Finland, and Annie Laurie. This lady was one of the four daughters of Sir Robert Laurie, the first baronet of Maxwelton, and it was to her that Finland inscribed those well-known verses, and that little air which now bear her name, and are so wonderfully plaintive and chaste for the time; but it is painful to record that notwithstanding all the ardour and devotion of her lover, the fair Annie was wedded as described in the romance. Her father, Sir Robert, was created a baronet in 1685. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Blackwood s Edinburgh Magazine Vol 25 written by and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-09 with total page 878 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 25: January-June, 1829 She had known and admired Queen Elizabeth - she had refused what she deemed an iniquitous award of King James, though urged to submit to it by her first husband, the Earl of Dor set She rebuilt her dismantled castles in defiance of Cromwell, and repelled with disdain the interpodtion of a profli ate minister under Charles the Secon A woman ofsneh daunt less spirit and conduct would be a fitting subject, even for the pencil of the mighty magician of Abbotsford. A journal of her life in her own hand writing is still in existence at Apple hy Castle. I have heard, that it de scends to the minutest details about her habits and feelings, and that it is that cause alone, which prevents its publication. But surely such details might be omitted, where they are in compatible with the refined delicacy of the presents e and the really va lnable part of t te work, the gold se parated from the dross, might advan tageously be made the property of the public. Personal adventures are not without attraction, even when narra ted in the most ordinary style; and adventures like hers, narrated in the same terse and forcible language in which her letters are written, would form an admirable foundation for any superstructure of romance, which an imagination all compact might rear upon them. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Waverley Or Tis Sixty Years Since Classic Reprint written by Walter Scott and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-24 with total page 966 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Waverley, or 'Tis Sixty Years Since I must refer to a ve early period of my life, were I to point out m first achievements as a ta e-telier - but I believe some of my old schoolie loss can still bear witness that I had a distinguished character for that talent, at a time when the applause of m companions was my recompense for the disgraoes and punishments which t e future romance-writer incurred for being idle himself. And keeping others idle, during hours that should have been employed on our tasks. The chief enjoyment of my holidays was to escape with a choun friend, who had the same taste with myself. And alter astely to recite to each other such wild adventures as we were able to devise. We told. Each in turn, interminable tales of knight-errantry and battles and enchantments, which were continued from one day to another, opportunity offered, without our ever thinking of bringing them to a conclusion. As we observed a strict secrecy on the subject of this inter course, it acquired all the character of a concealed pleasure, and we used to select, for the scenes of our indol ence, Ion walks through the solitary and romantic environs of Arthur's eat, Salis ury Crags, Braid Hills, and similar places in the vicinity of Edinburgh and the recollection of those holidays still forms an mi: in the pilgrimage which I have to look back upon. I have on] to add, that my friend? Still lives, a prosperous gentle man, but too mo occupied with graver business, to thank me for indica ting him more plainly as a confidant of my childish mystery. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Edinburgh Review Or Critical Journal Vol 215 written by and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-11-29 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Edinburgh Review, or Critical Journal, Vol. 215: For January, 1912-April, 1912 The practical man wholly rejects bare Theory, without 'suspecting how problematic must be the answer to the questions - whether Theory exists for the sake Of Applica tion, or Application for the sake Of Theory.' About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Tait s Edinburgh Magazine for 1847 Vol 14 Classic Reprint written by William Tait and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-20 with total page 878 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Tait's Edinburgh Magazine for 1847, Vol. 14 Good Night and Farewell, James V. Of Scotland, Last Words of Rob Roy Lines on seeing a Painting of an Garden, Love at First Sight. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Oxford Classic Reprint written by Frederick D. How and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-04 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Oxford For beauty and for romance the first place among all the cities of the United Kingdom must be given to Oxford. There is but one other - Edinburgh - which can lay any serious claim to rival her. Gazing upon Scotland's capital from Arthur's Seat, and dreaming visions of Scotland's wondrous past, it might seem as though the beauty and romance of the scene could not well be surpassed. But there is a certain solemnity, almost amounting to sadness, in both these aspects of the Northern capital which is altogether absent from the sparkling beauty of the city on the Isis, and from the genius of the place. The impression that Oxford makes upon those who, familiar with her from early years, have learnt to know and love her in later life is remarkable. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Love Story of a Maiden of Cathay Classic Reprint written by Florence Rush Nance and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-26 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Love Story of a Maiden of Cathay I bade her keep them until I found out if you were likely to be in need. And then for the first time I sat down to consider the matter of your maintenance. Sheng Bei Li, daughter of an ex-viceroy, basking in his smiles and sheltered under his roof, was a girl of unlimited means. But Sheng Bei Li, a medical student in Edinburgh, fol lowed by the wrath of that ex-viceroy, must look elsewhere for funds. That much I knew. I was as witless as your mother, and at that moment you could have had my jade bracelet. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
