 ... the workmen, may dance in their own houses to the palace music. And in this the palace is typical. There is a spark among the embers ; from time to time the old volcano smokes. Edinburgh has but partly abdicated, and still wears, in parody, her metropolitan...  Bonnie Scotland - Page 31by Ascott Robert Hope Moncrieff - 1905 - 254 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1895 - 384 pages
...the workmen, may dance in their own houses to the palace music. And in this the palace is typical. There is a spark among the embers; from time to time...the king of the Black Isles, it is half alive and Haifa monumental marble. There are armed men and cannon in the citadel overhead; you may see the troops... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1896 - 236 pages
...the workmen, may dance in their own houses to the palace music. And in this the palace is typical. There is a spark among the embers ; from time to time...troops marshalled on the high parade ; and at night _ The Argyle Battery after the early winter evenfall, and in the morning before the laggard winter... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1912 - 268 pages
...the workmen, may dance in their own houses to the palace music. And in this the palace is typical. There is a spark among the embers ; from time to time...high parade ; and at night after the early winter even-fell, and in the morning before the laggard winter dawn, the wind carries abroad over Edinburgh... | |
 | Erle Elsworth Clippinger - 1912 - 414 pages
...the workmen, may dance in their own houses to the palace music. And in this the palace is typical. There is a spark among the embers; from time to time...Isles, it is half alive and half a monumental marble. . . . Again, meditative people will find a charm in a certain consonancy between the aspect of the... | |
 | Erle Elsworth Clippinger - 1912 - 414 pages
...palace music. And in this the palace is typical. There is a spark among the embers; from time to'time the old volcano smokes. Edinburgh has but partly abdicated,...Isles, it is half alive and half a monumental marble. ... Again, meditative people will find a charm in. a certain consonancy between the aspect of the city... | |
 | Erle Elsworth Clippinger - 1912 - 408 pages
...is typical. There is a spark among the embers ; from time to time the old volcano smokes. Edinhurgh has but partly abdicated, and still wears, in parody,...Isles, it is half alive and half a monumental marble. . . . Again, meditative people will find a charm in a certain consonancy between the aspect of the... | |
 | Francis Watt - 1913 - 332 pages
...gathered at random : " Beautiful as she is, she is not so much beautiful as interesting." Again : " Like the King of the Black Isles, it is half alive and half a monumental marble." And yet again : "To look over the South Bridge and see the Cowgate below full of crying hawkers, is... | |
 | Francis Whiting Halsey - 1914 - 228 pages
...the workmen, may dance in their own Louses to the palace music. And in this the palace is typical. There is a spark among the embers; from time to time...cannon in the citadel overhead; you may see the troops marshaled on the high parade; and at night after the early winter even-fall, and in the morning before... | |
 | Marjorie Hope Nicolson - 1925 - 472 pages
...airs, and erected classic temples on her crags. In a word, and above all, she is a curiosity. . . . There is a spark among the embers; from time to time...king of the Black Isles, it is half alive and half of monumental marble. There are armed men and cannon in the citadel overhead; you may see the troops... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson, Lloyd Osbourne, Fanny Van de Grift Stevenson - 1925 - 352 pages
...the workmen, may dance in their own houses to the palace music. And in this the palace is typical. There is a spark among the embers; from time to time...the other; like the king of the Black Isles, it is half-alive and half a monumental marble. There are armed men and cannon in the citadel overhead; you... | |
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