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 22
... Perhaps to our cost , even this very year . ' " Such nonsense , gudewife , should ne'er enter your pow , While fair in the Channel rides brave gallant Howe ; If he could them meet in our ain straits of Dover , Not even one Frenchman ...
... Perhaps to our cost , even this very year . ' " Such nonsense , gudewife , should ne'er enter your pow , While fair in the Channel rides brave gallant Howe ; If he could them meet in our ain straits of Dover , Not even one Frenchman ...
Pàgina 52
... Perhaps a purse , perhaps a watch , Must pay the fees . Now , fell remorse of them takes hold- An aching head , and loss of gold , Makes penitents of the most bold ; But , deep in sin , They , like the sow to the mire , we're told ...
... Perhaps a purse , perhaps a watch , Must pay the fees . Now , fell remorse of them takes hold- An aching head , and loss of gold , Makes penitents of the most bold ; But , deep in sin , They , like the sow to the mire , we're told ...
Pàgina 65
... kings from empires hurled , And proved the bane and ruin of the world . Then unto Brussels let us take a bound , And see what food's amidst the Fleemings found ; E Perhaps we'll hear the murdering cannons roar , Or find 65.
... kings from empires hurled , And proved the bane and ruin of the world . Then unto Brussels let us take a bound , And see what food's amidst the Fleemings found ; E Perhaps we'll hear the murdering cannons roar , Or find 65.
Pàgina 66
But Chiefly Moral and Descriptive, with Songs, and Copious Notes Thomas Edgar. Perhaps we'll hear the murdering cannons roar , Or find the city sack'd and drenched in gore . Speed , speed your wings across the roaring main , And quickly ...
But Chiefly Moral and Descriptive, with Songs, and Copious Notes Thomas Edgar. Perhaps we'll hear the murdering cannons roar , Or find the city sack'd and drenched in gore . Speed , speed your wings across the roaring main , And quickly ...
Pàgina 68
... Perhaps they now must bid a last adieu . Quick they are rallied , marshalled in array , No fear their motions or their looks betray , No Grecian phalanx e're appear'd more bold , Nor Roman legion so much famed of old . For Quatre Bras ...
... Perhaps they now must bid a last adieu . Quick they are rallied , marshalled in array , No fear their motions or their looks betray , No Grecian phalanx e're appear'd more bold , Nor Roman legion so much famed of old . For Quatre Bras ...
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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.