字体:大 中 小
护眼
关灯
上一页
目录
下一页
The Brigs Of Ayr (第4/6页)
nock winds his moorland course. or haunted garpal draws his feeble source, aroused by blustering winds an' spotting thowes, in mony a torrent down the snaw-broo rowes; while crashing ice, borne on the rolling spate, sweeps dams, an' mills, an' brigs, a' to the gate; and from glenbuck, down to the ratton-key, auld ayr is just one lengthen'd, tumbling sea— then down ye'll hurl, (deil nor ye never rise!) and dash the gumlie jaups up to the pouring skies! a lesson sadly teaching, to your cost, that architecture's noble art is lost!” new brig “fine architecture, trowth, i needs must say't o't, the lord be thankit that we've tint the gate o't! gaunt, ghastly, ghaist-alluring edifices, hanging with threat'ning jut, like precipices; o'er-arching, mouldy, gloom-inspiring coves, supporting roofs, fantastic, stony groves; windows and doors in nameless sculptures drest with order, symmetry, or taste unblest; forms like some bedlam statuary's dream, the craz'd creations of misguided whim; forms might be worshipp'd on the bended knee, and still the second dread command be free; their likeness is not found on earth, in air, or sea! mansions that would disgrace the building taste of any mason reptile, bird or beast: fit only for a doited monkish race, or frosty maids forsworn the dear embrace, or cuifs of later times, wha held the notion, that sullen gloom was sterling, true devotion: fancies that our guid brugh denies protection, and soon may they expire, unblest wi' resurrection!” auld brig “o ye, my dear-remember'd, ancient yealings, were ye but here to share my wounded feelings! ye worthy proveses, an' mony a bailie, wha in the paths o' righteousness did toil aye; ye dainty deacons, and ye douce conveners, to whom our moderns are but causey-cleaners ye godl