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 27
... arms , The Muses and Science to woo . Yes ! Science doth fly to the shade Just like a coy virgin , ' tis true , Who wishes the more to engage Her lover her still to pursue . She'll prompt thee with an eagle eye Nature's hidden works how ...
... arms , The Muses and Science to woo . Yes ! Science doth fly to the shade Just like a coy virgin , ' tis true , Who wishes the more to engage Her lover her still to pursue . She'll prompt thee with an eagle eye Nature's hidden works how ...
Pàgina 38
... arm , Contemning the laws of his God . His blood like a furnace does boil , While quiet from his pillow doth fly ; Dread remorse takes firm hold of the soul .... Despair does appear in his eye . There stalketh hypocrisy grave , Of ...
... arm , Contemning the laws of his God . His blood like a furnace does boil , While quiet from his pillow doth fly ; Dread remorse takes firm hold of the soul .... Despair does appear in his eye . There stalketh hypocrisy grave , Of ...
Pàgina 39
... scheme in her wisdom is form'd , All consequences justly she weighs- ' Gainst guile , fraud , and anger , thus arm'd , She Reason's safe dictates obeys . Kind temperance the passions control , And virtue her conduct C 2 39.
... scheme in her wisdom is form'd , All consequences justly she weighs- ' Gainst guile , fraud , and anger , thus arm'd , She Reason's safe dictates obeys . Kind temperance the passions control , And virtue her conduct C 2 39.
Pàgina 67
... arms ! to arms ! the doubling drum is beat , And horn responsive long the call repeats , All now is bustle , hurry , and disorder , One grasps his arms , another mounts his charger . What plaints and tears now overwhelm the fair ! Each 67.
... arms ! to arms ! the doubling drum is beat , And horn responsive long the call repeats , All now is bustle , hurry , and disorder , One grasps his arms , another mounts his charger . What plaints and tears now overwhelm the fair ! Each 67.
Pàgina 70
... arms we purpose all to rest , But sleep and peace flee from the human breast , No shelter had our brave intrepid band , The heavens their canopy , their bed the sand , While o'er their heads portentous thunders roll , And vivid ...
... arms we purpose all to rest , But sleep and peace flee from the human breast , No shelter had our brave intrepid band , The heavens their canopy , their bed the sand , While o'er their heads portentous thunders roll , And vivid ...
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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.