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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... mind , and will fully compensate want of popularity - To my knowledge , I have 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 ...
... mind , and will fully compensate want of popularity - To my knowledge , I have 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 ...
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... mind they the omens betokening snaw . At length , with the papers , wee Dicky arrives , Impatient , the cover the gude man fast rives ; Then placing his spectacles firm on his nose , He readeth aloud to them how the world goes i How ...
... mind they the omens betokening snaw . At length , with the papers , wee Dicky arrives , Impatient , the cover the gude man fast rives ; Then placing his spectacles firm on his nose , He readeth aloud to them how the world goes i How ...
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... mind is bewilder'd as well as his eye , Yet still pushes on , but knows not where nor why . But the clouds now depart , and appears the blue sky , When the wandering shepherd around casts his eye ; But through a false medium each object ...
... mind is bewilder'd as well as his eye , Yet still pushes on , but knows not where nor why . But the clouds now depart , and appears the blue sky , When the wandering shepherd around casts his eye ; But through a false medium each object ...
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... mind to improve ; Of mankind I'll take a brief view , And mark how the passions do move . What a field to my eye doth appear ! There's nothing so complex as man ; My powers will not reach it , I fear , Yet the theme I'll essay as I can ...
... mind to improve ; Of mankind I'll take a brief view , And mark how the passions do move . What a field to my eye doth appear ! There's nothing so complex as man ; My powers will not reach it , I fear , Yet the theme I'll essay as I can ...
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... British ground . There lurks ' neath yon dark clouded brow Grim Malice , curs'd offspring of Hell ; Such black deeds in privacy brew , As shock human nature to tell . In his dark scowling mind there's no peace , Of 37.
... British ground . There lurks ' neath yon dark clouded brow Grim Malice , curs'd offspring of Hell ; Such black deeds in privacy brew , As shock human nature to tell . In his dark scowling mind there's no peace , Of 37.
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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.
Стр. 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...
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.