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 9
... written nothing immodest or immoral ; this being the case , if my poetical effusions do not amuse , they will not contaminate . If they do not command your approbation , they will at the least excite your sympathy ; and as I have done ...
... written nothing immodest or immoral ; this being the case , if my poetical effusions do not amuse , they will not contaminate . If they do not command your approbation , they will at the least excite your sympathy ; and as I have done ...
Pàgina 13
... written on the blank leaf of the Edinburgh Musical Miscellany , • Bonaparte's Retreat from Moscow , The Battle of Waterloo , For the first Anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo , For the second ditto , · An Address to a Partridge , On ...
... written on the blank leaf of the Edinburgh Musical Miscellany , • Bonaparte's Retreat from Moscow , The Battle of Waterloo , For the first Anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo , For the second ditto , · An Address to a Partridge , On ...
Pàgina 14
... Written on visiting the grave of a pious Friend , An Address to the Scots Greys , • On riding through the Estate of Mr Menteath of Closeburn , A Spring Evening Walk , 143 • 145 , ib . 146 ib . • 147 149 151 154 On a beautiful Aurora ...
... Written on visiting the grave of a pious Friend , An Address to the Scots Greys , • On riding through the Estate of Mr Menteath of Closeburn , A Spring Evening Walk , 143 • 145 , ib . 146 ib . • 147 149 151 154 On a beautiful Aurora ...
Pàgina 15
... Written at a Plowing Match , & c . 222 The Banks of Clouden , 224 The Banks of Scar , 226 The Ploughman's Song , 229 ADDITIONAL POEMS . The Arrival , Reception , and Departure of Prince Charles and his Army , from Dumfries , & c ...
... Written at a Plowing Match , & c . 222 The Banks of Clouden , 224 The Banks of Scar , 226 The Ploughman's Song , 229 ADDITIONAL POEMS . The Arrival , Reception , and Departure of Prince Charles and his Army , from Dumfries , & c ...
Pàgina 54
... WRITTEN ON THE 25TH OCTOBER , 1809 , BEING HIS LATE MAJESTY'S JUBILEE DAY . SOUND , sound ! the silver trumpets sound ; Their clarion diffuse around ; Let plains , and woods , and hills , and sky , Resound with GEORGE's Jubilee ! Thy ...
... WRITTEN ON THE 25TH OCTOBER , 1809 , BEING HIS LATE MAJESTY'S JUBILEE DAY . SOUND , sound ! the silver trumpets sound ; Their clarion diffuse around ; Let plains , and woods , and hills , and sky , Resound with GEORGE's Jubilee ! Thy ...
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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.