The Book of Scottish Poems: Ancient and ModernJohn Ross Edinburgh Publishing Company, 1878 - 760 էջ |
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... give yon southern folk a fray ! Why should I lose the right is mine ? My doom is not to die this day.'a " Yet turn ye to the eastern hand , And woe and wonder ye shall see ; How forty thousand spearmen stand , Where yon rank river meets ...
... give yon southern folk a fray ! Why should I lose the right is mine ? My doom is not to die this day.'a " Yet turn ye to the eastern hand , And woe and wonder ye shall see ; How forty thousand spearmen stand , Where yon rank river meets ...
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... give out that he is a merchant who had been attacked by pirates at sea , who slew the rest of his companions , and wounded himself . He soon wins the good will and admiration of the Irish by his skill upon the harp and as a chess ...
... give out that he is a merchant who had been attacked by pirates at sea , who slew the rest of his companions , and wounded himself . He soon wins the good will and admiration of the Irish by his skill upon the harp and as a chess ...
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... give minstrels other gifts . Mark , who is of an easy good - na- tured disposition , manifests no jealousy of his nephew's attachment to the queen for a long time ; but at length his suspi- cions are excited through the repeated ...
... give minstrels other gifts . Mark , who is of an easy good - na- tured disposition , manifests no jealousy of his nephew's attachment to the queen for a long time ; but at length his suspi- cions are excited through the repeated ...
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... give specimens of all his poems that have been printed . That of The Pystyl of Swete Susan , which is founded on the apocryphal story of Susanna , may be taken as a specimen of the class still in MS . only . Dr Irving character- izes it ...
... give specimens of all his poems that have been printed . That of The Pystyl of Swete Susan , which is founded on the apocryphal story of Susanna , may be taken as a specimen of the class still in MS . only . Dr Irving character- izes it ...
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... give a pretty full outline - rendering of the story or legend of the romance , in which it has been endeavoured to preserve the dram- atic humour of the piece . [ Specimen , unaltered . ] SO In the chieftyme of Charlis , that chosin ...
... give a pretty full outline - rendering of the story or legend of the romance , in which it has been endeavoured to preserve the dram- atic humour of the piece . [ Specimen , unaltered . ] SO In the chieftyme of Charlis , that chosin ...
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Էջ 441 - From seeming evil still educing good, And better thence again, and better still, In infinite progression.
Էջ 689 - A wet sheet and a flowing sea, A wind that follows fast, And fills the white and rustling sail, And bends the gallant mast; And bends the gallant mast, my boys, While, like the eagle free, Away the good ship flies, and leaves Old England on the lee. O for a soft and gentle wind!
Էջ 440 - The impetuous song, and say from whom you rage. His praise, ye brooks, attune, ye trembling rills ; And let me catch it as I muse along. Ye headlong torrents, rapid and profound ; Ye softer floods, that lead the humid maze Along the vale ; and thou, majestic main, A secret world of wonders in thyself, Sound his stupendous praise whose greater voice Or bids you roar, or bids your roarings fall.
Էջ 440 - Great Source of day, best image here below Of thy Creator, ever pouring wide, From world to world, the vital ocean round, On Nature write with every beam his praise.
Էջ 606 - How pleasant thy banks and green valleys below, Where wild in the woodlands the primroses blow; There oft as mild Evening weeps over the lea, The sweet-scented birk shades my Mary and me.
Էջ 519 - AH ! who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar; Ah! who can tell how many a soul sublime Has felt the influence of malignant star, And waged with Fortune an eternal war; Check'd by the scoff of Pride, by Envy's frown, And Poverty's unconquerable bar, In life's low vale remote has pined alone, Then dropt into the grave, unpitied and unknown...
Էջ 366 - The Evergreen. Being a Collection of Scots Poems, Wrote by the Ingenious before 1600.
Էջ 441 - There let the shepherd's flute, the virgin's lay, The prompting seraph, and the poet's lyre, Still sing the God of Seasons, as they roll.
Էջ 439 - And every sense, and every heart, is joy. Then comes thy glory in the Summer months, With light and heat refulgent. Then thy sun Shoots full perfection through the swelling year...
Էջ 446 - A pleasing land of drowsy-head it was, Of dreams that wave before the half-shut eye ; And of gay castles in the clouds that pass, For ever flushing round a summer sky...