Bothie

The Bothie was the name facetiously given by Alexander, Baron Rothie, son of the Marquis of Boarshead, to a house he had built in the neighbourhood, chiefly for the accommodation of his bachelor friends from London during the shooting-season.

Robert Falconer George MacDonald 1864

The poet of the "Bothie" becomes the poet of "Dipsychus," "Easter Day," and the "Amours de Voyage"; and the young republican who writes in triumph -- all humorous joy and animation -- to my father, from the Paris of

A Writer's Recollections — Volume 1 Humphry Ward 1885

She has been reading aloud to me, and now, as the evening advances I have asked some of them to read to me a long poem by Clough -- (the "Bothie") which I have no doubt will reach you.

A Writer's Recollections — Volume 1 Humphry Ward 1885

The "painful interest" with which the writer has read Clough's "Bothie" refers, I think, to the fact that she has recognized her second son, my father, as to some extent the hero of the poem.

A Writer's Recollections — Volume 1 Humphry Ward 1885

He was still in many respects the Philip of the "Bothie," influenced by Goethe, and the French romantics, by

A Writer's Recollections — Volume 1 Humphry Ward 1885

But in spite of a happy marriage, the burden and perplexity of philosophic thought, together with the strain of failing health, checked, before long, the strong poetic impulse shown in the "Bothie," its buoyant delight in natural beauty, and in the simplicities of human feeling and passion.

A Writer's Recollections — Volume 1 Humphry Ward 1885

Bothie didn't have to drag a sled to reach the South Pole, which was probably just as well considering the fact that he was a Yorkshire terrier.

Polar Exploration for Armchair Travelers 2009

One photo shows the dog, Bothie, barking at a pair of jeans so frozen in Antarctica that they stood on their own.

Polar Exploration for Armchair Travelers 2009

Next, the poem by Arthur Hugh Clough which I cite as an example of the successful use of the hexameter line in English is not, as Sir Hugh says, The Bothie of Tober-na-vuolich, which is indeed a slight and limited work, but Amours de Voyage, a poem of many moods and facets.

Lucan & 'Amours De Voyage' Widdows, P.F. 1990

But I think Amours de Voyage hardly more suitable a model than the Bothie; and putting the numbers in brackets against the headings is no substitute for numbering the lines, especially since Mr. Widdows is too modest in thinking that serious Latinists will not wish to look up his admirable translation.

Lucan & 'Amours De Voyage' Widdows, P.F. 1990