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
... 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 ...
... 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 33
... pass , we are told , They fell , still disdaining to yield . Lycurgus and Solon so wise Their laws upon reason did found , Which made their republics to rise , Thus placed on a basis so sound . Philosophy there reared her crest ...
... pass , we are told , They fell , still disdaining to yield . Lycurgus and Solon so wise Their laws upon reason did found , Which made their republics to rise , Thus placed on a basis so sound . Philosophy there reared her crest ...
Pàgina 49
... pass for a man of lair , And seem right shrewd , When you your principles declare , Among the crowd . Go , then , familiarize yourselves , With famed romances and novels ; D Peruse them close , and nothing else Yes , meditate 49.
... pass for a man of lair , And seem right shrewd , When you your principles declare , Among the crowd . Go , then , familiarize yourselves , With famed romances and novels ; D Peruse them close , and nothing else Yes , meditate 49.
Pàgina 53
... Your Thus unto sense , pages will each youth incline , With mind intense . Life's giddy years thus quickly pass , And age advances on apace ; A retrospect , alas ! alas ! Cannot give peace To those stretch'd on a bed of death , Waiting 53.
... Your Thus unto sense , pages will each youth incline , With mind intense . Life's giddy years thus quickly pass , And age advances on apace ; A retrospect , alas ! alas ! Cannot give peace To those stretch'd on a bed of death , Waiting 53.
Pàgina 64
... passing , he made a short call , But the lancers of Poland he liked not at all ; Since Fortune the jilt has on him turn'd her back , There are few friends indeed when nought's in the pack . Yet again the fiend is arrived at St Cloud's ...
... passing , he made a short call , But the lancers of Poland he liked not at all ; Since Fortune the jilt has on him turn'd her back , There are few friends indeed when nought's in the pack . Yet again the fiend is arrived at St Cloud's ...
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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
Passatges populars
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.