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 23
... night passes away , Until the gudeman he says , " Come let us pray When they all unite in religious devotion , - A practice most worthy of our imitation . PART SECOND . BUT searce had soft slumbers closed their eyes , When storms truly ...
... night passes away , Until the gudeman he says , " Come let us pray When they all unite in religious devotion , - A practice most worthy of our imitation . PART SECOND . BUT searce had soft slumbers closed their eyes , When storms truly ...
Pàgina 38
... night re - asserts her dark reign Ensanguin'd revenge steps abroad , Then lifts the assassin his 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 ...
... night re - asserts her dark reign Ensanguin'd revenge steps abroad , Then lifts the assassin his 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 ...
Pàgina 52
... cine cannot ease , So gross and foul ; Both night and day it does them tease , Body and soul . To church , too , punctually repair , Upon a day , just once a - year , And join yourself in public prayer ; Strictly enjoin'd By 52.
... cine cannot ease , So gross and foul ; Both night and day it does them tease , Body and soul . To church , too , punctually repair , Upon a day , just once a - year , And join yourself in public prayer ; Strictly enjoin'd By 52.
Pàgina 67
... night The short - liv'd night down Lethe's stream is flown , And sounds far different usher in the morn . PART SECOND . A messenger arrives on foaming steed , And to the Duke repairs with breathless speed , 66 Napoleon is arrived — and ...
... night The short - liv'd night down Lethe's stream is flown , And sounds far different usher in the morn . PART SECOND . A messenger arrives on foaming steed , And to the Duke repairs with breathless speed , 66 Napoleon is arrived — and ...
Pàgina 69
... that field of blood all night they lay , And offer'd battle to the foe next day ; Which was by him assiduously declined When British bayonets he call'd to mind . PART THIRD . Our chief thought proper slowly to retreat 69.
... that field of blood all night they lay , And offer'd battle to the foe next day ; Which was by him assiduously declined When British bayonets he call'd to mind . PART THIRD . Our chief thought proper slowly to retreat 69.
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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.