Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Հատոր 2Carey and Hart, 1842 |
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... seen , except some delicate braidings , here and there along the calm of the great blue sea of heaven . Most luminous is the sun , but you can look straight on his face , almost with unwink- ing eyes , so mild and mellow is his large ...
... seen , except some delicate braidings , here and there along the calm of the great blue sea of heaven . Most luminous is the sun , but you can look straight on his face , almost with unwink- ing eyes , so mild and mellow is his large ...
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... seen the dawn of reason , and their eyes look happy , just like the thought- less flowers . So unlike all other children - but unlike only because sooner than they - she seemed to have had given to her - even in the communion of the ...
... seen the dawn of reason , and their eyes look happy , just like the thought- less flowers . So unlike all other children - but unlike only because sooner than they - she seemed to have had given to her - even in the communion of the ...
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... seen inspired by music , till like small genii they warbled spell - strains of their own , powerful to sadden and subdue our hearts . So , too , have infant eyes been so charmed by the rainbow irradiating the earth , that almost infant ...
... seen inspired by music , till like small genii they warbled spell - strains of their own , powerful to sadden and subdue our hearts . So , too , have infant eyes been so charmed by the rainbow irradiating the earth , that almost infant ...
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... seen to overflow ! Happy had they been - as we mortal beings ever can be happy - during many pleasant years of wedded life before she had been born . And happy were they - on to the verge of old age - after she had here ceased to be ...
... seen to overflow ! Happy had they been - as we mortal beings ever can be happy - during many pleasant years of wedded life before she had been born . And happy were they - on to the verge of old age - after she had here ceased to be ...
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... seen , And piped where gor - cocks whirring flew ; And mony a day I've danced , I ween , To lilts which from my drone I blew . ' My Eppie waked , and soon she cried , 6 Get up , gudeman , and let him in ; For weel ye ken the winter ...
... seen , And piped where gor - cocks whirring flew ; And mony a day I've danced , I ween , To lilts which from my drone I blew . ' My Eppie waked , and soon she cried , 6 Get up , gudeman , and let him in ; For weel ye ken the winter ...
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Էջ 10 - Where through the long-drawn aisle and fretted vault The pealing anthem swells the note of praise.
Էջ 21 - The Lord giveth, and the Lord ' taketh away ; blessed be the name of the Lord.
Էջ 356 - MARY YE banks and braes and streams around The castle o' Montgomery, Green be your woods, and fair your flowers, Your waters never drumlie! There simmer first unfauld her robes, And there the langest tarry; For there I took the last fareweel O
Էջ 357 - O pale, pale now, those rosy lips, I aft hae kiss'd sae fondly ! And closed for aye the sparkling glance That dwelt on me sae kindly : And mouldering now in silent dust That heart that lo'ed me dearly ! But still within my bosom's core Shall live my Highland Mary.
Էջ 352 - Let him follow me! By Oppression's woes and pains! By your sons in servile chains! We will drain our dearest veins, But they shall be free! •Lay the proud usurpers low ! Tyrants fall in every foe ! Liberty's in every blow! Let us do or die...
Էջ 133 - Blessings be with them — and eternal praise, Who gave us nobler loves, and nobler cares, The Poets, who on earth have made us Heirs Of truth and pure delight by heavenly lays ! Oh ! might my name be numbered among theirs, Then gladly would I end my mortal days.
Էջ 25 - Let down the flood, and half dissolved by day, Rustles no more; but to the sedgy bank Fast grows, or gathers round the pointed stone, A crystal pavement, by the breath of Heaven Cemented firm ; till, seized from shore to shore, The whole imprison'd river growls below.
Էջ 354 - For a' that, and a' that, Their dignities, and a' that, The pith o' sense and pride o' worth Are higher ranks than a' that. Then let us pray that come it may — As come it will for a' that — That sense and worth, o'er a' the earth. May bear the gree, and a' that. For a' that, and a' that, It's comin' yet, for a' that, — That man to man, the warld o'er.
Էջ 29 - Beneath the formless wild; but wanders on From hill to dale, still more and more astray : Impatient flouncing through the drifted heaps, Stung with the thoughts of home; the thoughts of home Rush on his nerves> and call their vigour forth In many a vain attempt.
Էջ 355 - THEIR groves o' sweet myrtle let foreign lands reckon, Where bright-beaming summers exalt the perfume ; Far dearer to me yon lone glen o' green breckan, Wi' the burn stealing under the lang yellow broom. Far dearer to me are yon humble broom bowers, Where the blue-bell and gowan lurk lowly unseen : For there, lightly tripping amang the wild flowers, A listening the linnet, aft wanders my Jean. Tho...