Poems on Various Subjects: But Chiefly Moral and Descriptive, with Songs, and Copious NotesPrinted at the Dumfries & Galloway courier office, 1822 - Всего страниц: 283 |
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... Muses , and frequently employed a leisure hour in composing a few stan- zas , which , after being committed to paper , and lying sometime neglected , were generally , upon a re - perusal , committed to the flames . For these last few ...
... Muses , and frequently employed a leisure hour in composing a few stan- zas , which , after being committed to paper , and lying sometime neglected , were generally , upon a re - perusal , committed to the flames . For these last few ...
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... Muse again paid me a welcome visit ; and cordially embracing her , this Volume ( with a very few exceptions ) is the consequence of our connection . I am conscious that the bantling is very rickety and deformed , and that , upon ...
... Muse again paid me a welcome visit ; and cordially embracing her , this Volume ( with a very few exceptions ) is the consequence of our connection . I am conscious that the bantling is very rickety and deformed , and that , upon ...
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... 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 to scan ...
... 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 to scan ...
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... Muse shall lend support , And favour shew , In spite of all their scoffs and sport , Yet on I'll go . If you desire to be in fashion , You must depreciate Revelation , And , turning Deist by profession , The Bible scoff ; At bugbear ...
... Muse shall lend support , And favour shew , In spite of all their scoffs and sport , Yet on I'll go . If you desire to be in fashion , You must depreciate Revelation , And , turning Deist by profession , The Bible scoff ; At bugbear ...
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... Muse ! come to my aid , And through my breast thy quickening influence shed : Teach me what numbers to reject , what choose , That critics keen may not my lays abuse . My theme's not now those artless past'ral lays , That trump the ...
... Muse ! come to my aid , And through my breast thy quickening influence shed : Teach me what numbers to reject , what choose , That critics keen may not my lays abuse . My theme's not now those artless past'ral lays , That trump the ...
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Стр. 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.
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Стр. 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.