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 117
... length , yet , I dare say , it is not known to above ten persons alive . It is a scene of the most gloomy grandeur , and well calculated to inspire notions of ideal beings , of terror and superstition , which are ascribed by the ...
... length , yet , I dare say , it is not known to above ten persons alive . It is a scene of the most gloomy grandeur , and well calculated to inspire notions of ideal beings , of terror and superstition , which are ascribed by the ...
Page 118
... length I began to fly with such velocity , that my eyes fell a watering , and I entirely lost sight of my course . In my hurry , not knowing well what to do , I made a sudden lean backward on my staff ; in doing which , my feet being ...
... length I began to fly with such velocity , that my eyes fell a watering , and I entirely lost sight of my course . In my hurry , not knowing well what to do , I made a sudden lean backward on my staff ; in doing which , my feet being ...
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... length from cheek to cheek , seemed curled up al- most to his nose , and his white eye - brows sunk fairly in below the arch of the eye , and pointed downwards . He was visibly labouring under a savage displeasure . At length he ...
... length from cheek to cheek , seemed curled up al- most to his nose , and his white eye - brows sunk fairly in below the arch of the eye , and pointed downwards . He was visibly labouring under a savage displeasure . At length he ...
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