The Lives of the Scotish Poets: With Preliminary Dissertations on the Literary History of Scotland, and the Early Scotish Drama, Հատոր 2Alex. Lawrie and Company, 1804 - 506 էջ |
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... character is commemorated in simple terms by his official Alexander Myln . Gavin Douglas was the third son of Archibald Earl of Angus , and of Elizabeth , the daughter of Robert Lord Boyd , a nobleman who for some time held the office ...
... character is commemorated in simple terms by his official Alexander Myln . Gavin Douglas was the third son of Archibald Earl of Angus , and of Elizabeth , the daughter of Robert Lord Boyd , a nobleman who for some time held the office ...
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... character of a peace - maker . But the dissembling and turbulent prelate protested that he was at once ignorant of their designs , and unable to prevent them from being carried into execution . And sealing his asseveration with an oath ...
... character of a peace - maker . But the dissembling and turbulent prelate protested that he was at once ignorant of their designs , and unable to prevent them from being carried into execution . And sealing his asseveration with an oath ...
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... character , Whether he had actually presented himself as a candidate for those vacant offices , is not suffici- ently evident ; but it is at least certain that his enemies dreaded the result of an application from such a competitor ...
... character , Whether he had actually presented himself as a candidate for those vacant offices , is not suffici- ently evident ; but it is at least certain that his enemies dreaded the result of an application from such a competitor ...
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... character of the man who devotes himself to the service of the altar . Lesley has inconsiderately charged him with mingling in the tumults of those unhappy tintes . The only commotion in which he is recorded to have been personally ...
... character of the man who devotes himself to the service of the altar . Lesley has inconsiderately charged him with mingling in the tumults of those unhappy tintes . The only commotion in which he is recorded to have been personally ...
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... character as a politician appears to have commanded the reverence of his country- men and in the discharge of his duty as a Christian pastor , he exhibited a model of prim- æval purity . By his exemplary piety and learning , by his ...
... character as a politician appears to have commanded the reverence of his country- men and in the discharge of his duty as a Christian pastor , he exhibited a model of prim- æval purity . By his exemplary piety and learning , by his ...
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Էջ 491 - But hark ! a rap comes gently to the door ; Jenny, wha kens the meaning o' the same, Tells how a neebor lad cam' o'er the moor, To do some errands, and convoy her hame. The wily mother sees the conscious flame Sparkle in Jenny's e'e, and flush her cheek ; With heart-struck anxious care, inquires his name, While Jenny hafflins is afraid to speak : Weel pleased the mother hears it's nae wild, worthless rake. Wi...
Էջ 498 - Wi' his last gasp his gab did gape ; Five tomahawks, wi' bluid red-rusted ; Five scimitars wi' murder crusted ; A garter, which a babe had strangled ; A knife, a father's throat had mangled, Whom his ain son o...
Էջ 491 - I've paced much this weary, mortal round, And sage experience bids me this declare : — If Heaven a draught of heavenly pleasure spare, One cordial in this melancholy vale, 'Tis when a youthful, loving, modest pair, In other's arms breathe out the tender tale, Beneath the milk-white thorn that scents the evening gale...
Էջ 497 - Nick, in shape o' beast; A towzie tyke, black, grim, and large, To gie them music was his charge: He screw'd the pipes and gart them skirl, Till roof and rafters a
Էջ 499 - Wha will be a traitor knave? Wha can fill a coward's grave? Wha sae base as be a slave? Let him turn and flee! Wha for Scotland's king and law Freedom's sword will strongly draw, Freeman stand, or freeman fa?
Էջ 45 - Nibelunge," such as it was written down at the end of the twelfth, or the beginning of the thirteenth century, is
Էջ 492 - Is there, in human form, that bears a heart A wretch! a villain! lost to love and truth! That can, with studied, sly, ensnaring art, Betray sweet Jenny's unsuspecting youth?
Էջ 455 - I resolved to publish my poems. I weighed my productions as impartially as was in my power ; I thought they had merit ; and it was a delicious idea that I should be called a clever fellow, even though it should never reach my ears...
Էջ 107 - Insuperable height of loftiest shade, Cedar, and pine, and fir, and branching palm, A sylvan scene, and, as the ranks ascend Shade above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view.
Էջ 107 - So on he fares, and to the border comes Of Eden, where delicious Paradise, Now nearer, crowns with her enclosure green...