Winter Evening Tales: Collected Among the Cottagers in the South of ScotlandEdinburgh University Press, 2002 - 601 pages "Hogg left a written record of three of his many journeys to the Highlands, those of 1802, 1803 and 1804, and in Highland Journeys he offers a thoughtful and deeply-felt response to the Highland Clearances. He gives vivid pictures of his experiences, including a narrow escape from a Navy press-gang, and a Sacrament day with one minister preaching in English and another in Gaelic. Hogg also explains aspects of Gaelic culture such as the waulking songs, and he describes the trade in kelp, lucrative to the landowners but back-breaking and ill-paid for the workers. Highland Journeys makes a refreshing contribution to our understanding of early nineteenth-century travel writing"--Publisher description. |
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Page xxxiv
... better to be igno- rant of vice , than even to detest it ' . Yet Hogg's own principles are judged to be ' unexceptionable ' . ' What we complain of in him is the want of common refinement ; it is the coarseness of his language that we ...
... better to be igno- rant of vice , than even to detest it ' . Yet Hogg's own principles are judged to be ' unexceptionable ' . ' What we complain of in him is the want of common refinement ; it is the coarseness of his language that we ...
Page 204
... better mon than thei . " " I would have you know , sir , " said I , “ that I am not accustomed to such language as this ; and , moreover , if I thought there was a better man in all your country than myself , I would blow out my brains ...
... better mon than thei . " " I would have you know , sir , " said I , “ that I am not accustomed to such language as this ; and , moreover , if I thought there was a better man in all your country than myself , I would blow out my brains ...
Page 434
... better and better , and better and better . " And with these words , Matilda clasped him to her bosom and wept . Sandy sobbed bitterly too ; and said , “ She be geat lial , yon lady . Sandy no kill cousin Mattie . When Sandy gows byaw ...
... better and better , and better and better . " And with these words , Matilda clasped him to her bosom and wept . Sandy sobbed bitterly too ; and said , “ She be geat lial , yon lady . Sandy no kill cousin Mattie . When Sandy gows byaw ...
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