The Modern Scottish Minstrel; Or the Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century, Vol. 4 of 6: With Memoirs of the Poets, and Sketches and Specimens in ... Modern Gaelic Bards (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Excerpt from The Modern Scottish Minstrel; Or the Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century, Vol. 4 of 6: With Memoirs of the Poets, and Sketches and Specimens in English Verse of the Most Celebrated Modern Gaelic Bards

Probably Btnns felt little admiration of the calm, colossal grandeur Of mountain-scenery, where there are indeed vestiges of convulsion and agony, but where age has softened the storm into stillness, and where the memory of former strife and upheaving only serves to deepen the feeling of repose - vestiges which, like the wrinkles on the stern brow Of the Corsair.

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