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 50
... well before them all , Show talents rare . The Theatre , also , close attend , And hear the Play from end to end ; Hiss loudly whiles , and whiles commend With great applause ; ' Then you'll be thought to understand The drama's laws . 50.
... well before them all , Show talents rare . The Theatre , also , close attend , And hear the Play from end to end ; Hiss loudly whiles , and whiles commend With great applause ; ' Then you'll be thought to understand The drama's laws . 50.
Pàgina 63
... play . For travelling companion , O , who shall I find ? — Caulincourt who murdered the Duke d'Enghine . And if by the Cossacks surrounded I be , No scruple they'll have to sacrifice me . A sledge for his Highness they quickly prepare ...
... play . For travelling companion , O , who shall I find ? — Caulincourt who murdered the Duke d'Enghine . And if by the Cossacks surrounded I be , No scruple they'll have to sacrifice me . A sledge for his Highness they quickly prepare ...
Pàgina 68
... play their part , No courage quailed the gallant soldiers ' heart ; But overwhelming numbers must prevail ; - Thus at Thermopylae the Spartans fell . Now to the conflict do our troops advance , And meet in style the deep'ning squares of ...
... play their part , No courage quailed the gallant soldiers ' heart ; But overwhelming numbers must prevail ; - Thus at Thermopylae the Spartans fell . Now to the conflict do our troops advance , And meet in style the deep'ning squares of ...
Pàgina 70
... play its part , Evening's dark curtain veils the face of day , Our piquets placed , our army's in array , Upon our arms we purpose all to rest , But sleep and peace flee from the human breast , No shelter had our brave intrepid band ...
... play its part , Evening's dark curtain veils the face of day , Our piquets placed , our army's in array , Upon our arms we purpose all to rest , But sleep and peace flee from the human breast , No shelter had our brave intrepid band ...
Pàgina 84
... play the god . His magic batton's power for ever lost , No more is dreaded by the British host ; Its wave makes not one column disappear . Their iron lines eschew each son of fear . Stern Battle's lowering front does now advance , And ...
... play the god . His magic batton's power for ever lost , No more is dreaded by the British host ; Its wave makes not one column disappear . Their iron lines eschew each son of fear . Stern Battle's lowering front does now advance , And ...
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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.