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 8
... Muse again paid me a welcome visit ; and cordially embracing her , this Volume ( with a very few exceptions ) is the consequence of our connection . I am conscious that the bantling is very rickety and deformed , and that , upon ...
... Muse again paid me a welcome visit ; and cordially embracing her , this Volume ( with a very few exceptions ) is the consequence of our connection . I am conscious that the bantling is very rickety and deformed , and that , upon ...
Pàgina 49
... Muse shall lend support , And favour shew , In spite of all their scoffs and sport , Yet on I'll go . If you desire to be in fashion , You must depreciate Revelation , And , turning Deist by profession , The Bible scoff ; At bugbear ...
... Muse shall lend support , And favour shew , In spite of all their scoffs and sport , Yet on I'll go . If you desire to be in fashion , You must depreciate Revelation , And , turning Deist by profession , The Bible scoff ; At bugbear ...
Pàgina 65
... Muse ! come to my aid , And through my breast thy quickening influence shed : Teach me what numbers to reject , what choose , That critics keen may not my lays abuse . My theme's not now those artless past'ral lays , That trump the ...
... Muse ! come to my aid , And through my breast thy quickening influence shed : Teach me what numbers to reject , what choose , That critics keen may not my lays abuse . My theme's not now those artless past'ral lays , That trump the ...
Pàgina 71
... muse , and do assistance lend , For on your aid my success must depend ! Terrific cannons , engines old of war , Disgorging metal showers , deal death afar O'er the extended field of Waterloo , As if each vital spark quick to subdue ...
... muse , and do assistance lend , For on your aid my success must depend ! Terrific cannons , engines old of war , Disgorging metal showers , deal death afar O'er the extended field of Waterloo , As if each vital spark quick to subdue ...
Pàgina 75
... muse ! a willing tribute give To those who bravely found a soldier's grave ; Although my numbers cannot mention all , Yet in their country's annals live they shall . The Royals , Enniskillings and the Greys , Richly deserve 75.
... muse ! a willing tribute give To those who bravely found a soldier's grave ; Although my numbers cannot mention all , Yet in their country's annals live they shall . The Royals , Enniskillings and the Greys , Richly deserve 75.
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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.