Poems on Various Subjects: But Chiefly Moral and Descriptive, with Songs, and Copious NotesPrinted at the Dumfries & Galloway courier office, 1822 - 283 pàgines |
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Pàgina 14
... Epistle I , Epistle II , • Epistle III , Epistle IV , Epistle V .. Epistle VI , 101 120 122 124 126 · 128 130 Epistle VII , 136 Epistle VIII , Epistle IX , 137 139 On a celebrated Sportsman , Addressed to Wm . Johnstone , Esq ...
... Epistle I , Epistle II , • Epistle III , Epistle IV , Epistle V .. Epistle VI , 101 120 122 124 126 · 128 130 Epistle VII , 136 Epistle VIII , Epistle IX , 137 139 On a celebrated Sportsman , Addressed to Wm . Johnstone , Esq ...
Pàgina 120
... EPISTLE I. Written at the desire of , and addressed to three Gentlemen in Leadhills , who had been in the country to see a Friend in distress . My Muse , daft hizzy , will you greet Upon your visit so discreet , To your old , leal ...
... EPISTLE I. Written at the desire of , and addressed to three Gentlemen in Leadhills , who had been in the country to see a Friend in distress . My Muse , daft hizzy , will you greet Upon your visit so discreet , To your old , leal ...
Pàgina 122
... EPISTLE II . To a Friend on the 1st January , 1818 . SIR , I do hereby you command To take your staff into your hand , And to my cottage straight repair And happy hold the blythe new year . Perhaps the treat will not be great , The Mart ...
... EPISTLE II . To a Friend on the 1st January , 1818 . SIR , I do hereby you command To take your staff into your hand , And to my cottage straight repair And happy hold the blythe new year . Perhaps the treat will not be great , The Mart ...
Pàgina 124
... EPISTLE III . Written to a Friend on the 13th Jan. 1818 . A GUDE new - year unto you , friend , I wish health , wealth , and peace of mind ; And many new - years may you see , Be still from care and canker free . And now when neighbours ...
... EPISTLE III . Written to a Friend on the 13th Jan. 1818 . A GUDE new - year unto you , friend , I wish health , wealth , and peace of mind ; And many new - years may you see , Be still from care and canker free . And now when neighbours ...
Pàgina 126
... EPISTLE IV . To a Brother Poet . SIR - I do hereby you invite At Jenny Sharp's your friend to meet , On Tuesday afternoon , at three , Where we will taste the barley bree . I hope your Muse will be in tune , Your brother Bard to ...
... EPISTLE IV . To a Brother Poet . SIR - I do hereby you invite At Jenny Sharp's your friend to meet , On Tuesday afternoon , at three , Where we will taste the barley bree . I hope your Muse will be in tune , Your brother Bard to ...
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admire Andrew Meikle appear banks battle BATTLE OF WATERLOO beauties bestow bold bonnie bosom bout brave breast British Britons brow Cæsar Carron cheeks cheer Closeburn command corn Criffel cuirassiers Dalveen dark dear display dost doth down-how dreadful Duke Dumfries e'er endeavour EPISTLE fair faithful fame field flow Fortune frae gallant grand chain grave happy heart Heaven heroes Highland laddies honour Isle king land of cakes Lavalette live Lord Lord Exmouth lowland Scot mankind Meikle mind mirth MOORLAND moral mourn Muse Nature's ne'er nigh night nought numbers o'er passions peace plain plough poem praise Prince repair Roman legion sage scarce scene Scots shepherd shore skill smile Solitude song soul stern storm straits of Dover subdue sure sweet tears thee There's thou thought true tyrants unto virtue Waterloo wish yonder yore younker
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Pàgina 8 - In poets as true genius is but rare, True taste as seldom is the critic's share ; Both must alike from Heaven derive their light, These born to judge, as well as those to write.
Pàgina 280 - ... would vitrify or dissipate any substance known to us. Sir Isaac Newton computed the heat of the comet that appeared in the year 1680, when nearest the sun, to be 2,000 times hotter than red-hot iron, and that, being thus heated, it must retain its heat till it...
Pàgina 282 - Others of less note followed the infamous example. On their combined evidence several of the conspirators were seized, condemned, and executed. Among these, the most distinguished were Russell and Sidney. Both died with the intrepidity of men who had resolved to hazard their lives in the field, in order to break the fetters of slavery, and rescue themselves and their fellow-subjects from an ignominious despotism.