The Recreations of Christopher North
Li THE RECREATIONS EDINBURGH! PRINTED HY BAI.LANTYNE AND IIUOHRs, PAUL'S WORK, OANONGATE. THE RECREATI (J N S IN THREE VOLUMES. VOL. II. WILLIAM BLACKWOOD AND SONS, EDINBURGH AND LONDON. M.DCCC.XLII. CONTENTS. Page I. THE MOORS, PROLOGUE, ....... I FLIGHT FIRST GLEN ETIVE, . 4t FLIGHT SECOND THE COVES OF CRCACHA.V, ... 80 FLIGHT THIRD STILL LIFE, ..... 108' FLIGHT FOURTH DOWN RIVER AD UP LOCH, . 152 II. HIGHLAND SNOW STORM, ... 191 III. THE HOLT CHILD, ..... 220 IV. OUR PARISH, .... 2.3T V. MAY-DAT, 2GG. VI. SACRED POETRT, CHAPTER I., . .320 CHAPTER II., . .342 CHAPTER 373 III., ....... CHAPTER IV 391 RECREATIONS CHRISTOPHER NORTH. THE MOORS. PROLOGUE. ONCE we knew the Highlands absolutely too well not a nook that was not as familiar to us as our brown study. We had not to complain of the lochs, glens, woods, and mountains alone, for having so fastened themselves upon us on a great scale that we found it impossible to shake them off; but the hardship in our case was, that all the subordinate parts of the scenery, many of them dull and dreary enough, and some of them intolerably tedious, had taken it upon themselves so to thrust their intimacy upon us, in all winds and weathers, that without giving them the cut direct there was no way of escaping from the burden of their friendship. To VOL. II. A 2 RECREATIONS OF CHRISTOPHER NORTH. courteous and humane Christians, such as \ve have al- ways been both by name and nature as far back as we can recollect, it is painful to cut even an impudent stone, or an upsetting tree that may cross our path uncalled for, or obtrude itself on our privacy when we wish to be alone in our meditations.
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