MONTHLY LIST OF NEW PUBLICATIONS

... By Charles Heath, from Designs by Richard Westall, Esq. R. A. Imperial Bvo. 12s. proofs, 4to. i'Lils. GEOGRAPHY. Clarke's New School Maps of all the Principal States and Kingdoms throughout the World ; comprised in Maps, corrected from the latest and best ...

Published: Saturday 01 December 1821
Newspaper: The Scots Magazine
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2176 | Page: 108 | Tags: none

WORKS PREPARING FOR PUBLICATION

... to the learned world : but, for some years past, copies have been so very rare, and consequently so expensive, that the work has been unattainable, particularly to youthful scholars. Biographia Poetica, or Lives of the British Poets from Chaucer to Cowper ...

Published: Sunday 01 February 1824
Newspaper: The Scots Magazine
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1921 | Page: 113 | Tags: none

M'DIARMID'S SCRAT-BOOK—AITKEN'S CABINET

... is truly valuable and worthy of being preserved from what is trashy and perishable—in culling so many sweet flowers and sparkling gems from such vast heaps of weeds and rubbish— and in selecting, even from writers approved excellence, their brightest ideas ...

Published: Tuesday 01 March 1825
Newspaper: The Scots Magazine
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1296 | Page: 63 | Tags: none

LITERARY GEMS

... articles into his work from the pages of our Magazine, such as it existed in its younger and brighter days, and from a contemporary publication of the same kind he has also chosen some meritorious pieces. Of the pieces selected from our own work it becomes ...

Published: Wednesday 01 February 1826
Newspaper: The Scots Magazine
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 5910 | Page: 90 | Tags: none

LITERATURE

... ' ly _utrain , too precious to _he _liirt which the industry and taste of the author have _lescucil from unmerited obscurity , and _separated from _iberubbiih by which their native beauties were _concealed . In plain _. English , lie _lias most judiciously ...

Published: Wednesday 08 March 1826
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 832 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

LITERATURE

... purify feeling, and, for a time at least, pro-. duce a rare and sweet abstraction from the grosser pur- suits of life. Under such influences we can pity the mee t man of the world. His importance dies with him. His occupations, enjoyments7 passions-are com ...

LOUD BYRON

... LOUD BYRON The following passage is from the New Monthly Magazine for August. It appears under the head Sketches from the Portfolio of Sexagenarian. As proposed visiting Waterloo on the following morning, I oil-red services las ci- cerone, which were ...

Published: Monday 10 August 1829
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening Courant
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 4218 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

A chained bear whom cruel dogs do bait.-

... as the compliments of the drawing room. The truth is, he draws his whole artillery from such books as Elegant Extracts, and Alfred llowanl's Beauties; and even from these stores lie never produces a passage that the ear is not as intimate with as with ...

Published: Saturday 15 August 1835
Newspaper: Fifeshire Journal
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 4534 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Ditto ditto, with County List, Comic Almanac, with Twelve Plates, by George ('ruikshatik, 0 2 6 Tilt's ..

... lets extensive and complicated than that of the Church of Ireland ; yet the report from Ireland, haring spoliation is rim, was ready in six or eight months; while that from Scotland, evAieh tends to a rant of mosey, is not yet forthcoming, though or eig ...

Published: Thursday 04 January 1838
Newspaper: Fifeshire Journal
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3524 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

UPPER CANADA

... slaughter stationed themselves at Schlosser, good position from which to enjoy the spectacle. This excuse, however, will not satisfy any one who has map before him. Sehlotser is one mile and half from the next adjacent side of the island—rather long range ...

Published: Thursday 08 February 1838
Newspaper: Perthshire Advertiser
County: Perthshire, Scotland
Type: | Words: 3359 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Advertisements & Notices

... LEciTnRI.-One SAhiling. To be bad from Mr Rosr, 2. DrM-rnoeocd Street (North Sie]6); the BOOT;SE.LEII5 firrmerly advertised; from the LIBnARIAN of the EDINBuRGHs SELECT StInCIIP- TION LIsRA1Iy, 24, Waterloo Place; and from the Door- keeper at the Lecture ...

FROM THE SCRAP-BOOK AT HUNA INN

... FROM THE SCRAP-BOOK AT HUNA INN. Robert Gray Mason paid a visit to the celebrated spot called John O'Groat's House, the 10th of March, 1841, the close of a nine month's tour of benevolence in the islands of Shetland and Orkney. He spe.it three days ...

Published: Friday 26 March 1841
Newspaper: John o' Groat Journal
County: Caithness, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1547 | Page: 3 | Tags: none