The Poems of Robert Fergusson: in Two Parts. To which is Prefixed, the Life of the Author, and a Sketch of His Writings; with a Copious Glossary Annexed, Volume 1Benjamin Chapman. A. Small, printer., 1815 - 331 páginas |
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... earth their glowing axles turn . Am . What mighty power conducts the stars on high ! Who bids these comets thro ' our system fly ! Who wafts the lightning to the icy pole ! And thro ' our regions bids the thunders roll ! Flor . But say ...
... earth their glowing axles turn . Am . What mighty power conducts the stars on high ! Who bids these comets thro ' our system fly ! Who wafts the lightning to the icy pole ! And thro ' our regions bids the thunders roll ! Flor . But say ...
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... earth with fev'rous tremour shakes , The stagnant lakes obey their call , Streams o'er the grassy pastures fall . TWEED spreads her waters to the lucid ray , Upon the dimpled surf the sunbeams play : On her green banks the tuneful ...
... earth with fev'rous tremour shakes , The stagnant lakes obey their call , Streams o'er the grassy pastures fall . TWEED spreads her waters to the lucid ray , Upon the dimpled surf the sunbeams play : On her green banks the tuneful ...
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... earth Tay's waters spring , Ordain'd by Jove's unalterable voice ; The sounding lyre celestial muses string , The Choiring songsters in the groves rejoice . Each fount its crystal fluids pours ,圈 Which from surrounding mountains flow ...
... earth Tay's waters spring , Ordain'd by Jove's unalterable voice ; The sounding lyre celestial muses string , The Choiring songsters in the groves rejoice . Each fount its crystal fluids pours ,圈 Which from surrounding mountains flow ...
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... earth delight To hunt the murm'ring cadence of the floods , Thro ' scenes where Nature , with a hand pro- fuse , Hath lavish strew'd her gems of precious dye ; Yet in the small existence of a gnat , Or tiny bug , doth she with equal ...
... earth delight To hunt the murm'ring cadence of the floods , Thro ' scenes where Nature , with a hand pro- fuse , Hath lavish strew'd her gems of precious dye ; Yet in the small existence of a gnat , Or tiny bug , doth she with equal ...
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... earth , and bends his mental eye Thro ' the profundity of space unknown , Down to the crawling Bug's detested race . Thus the lover pines , that reptile rude Should ' midst the lilies of fair CHLOE's breast Implant the deep carnation ...
... earth , and bends his mental eye Thro ' the profundity of space unknown , Down to the crawling Bug's detested race . Thus the lover pines , that reptile rude Should ' midst the lilies of fair CHLOE's breast Implant the deep carnation ...
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The Poems of Robert Fergusson: in Two Parts. To which is Prefixed ..., Volume 1 Robert Fergusson Visualização integral - 1815 |
Palavras e frases frequentes
aften amang Auld Reikie baith bauld beauty blaw blest blyth bonny Braid Claith braw breeze browster busk caller canna canty cauld cheer chiel cottar cou'd dowy e'en e'er ECLOGUE Edina's ev'ry fair Fancy Fergusson Fifan flow'rs fock frae gales gang girn Glour green groves gude Gutcher hail hame hath heart heeze ilka lads lasses loun lyre maun mirth mony morn mourn Muse nae mair ne'er never night numbers o'er plain poortith pow'r reed ROBERT FERGUSSON round SAMUEL JOHNSON Scotland seenil shade shepherd shore shou'd sigh siller simmer sing Skelpin smiles song spring stap strain streams swain sweet thee thir thole thou thro tongue trow Twas unco weel weet Whan Whare Whase Whilk wing Wirrikow woes yence
Passagens conhecidas
Página 62 - O ! who can hold a fire in his hand By thinking on the frosty Caucasus? Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite By bare imagination of a feast?
Página 186 - The spinsters and the knitters in the sun, And the free maids that weave their thread with bones, Do use to chant it ; it is silly sooth, And dallies with the innocence of love, Like the old age.
Página 194 - Ferguson, whose irregularities sometimes led him into unpleasant rencontres with these military conservators of public order, and who mentions them so often that he may be termed their poet...
Página 226 - At night, in calmest slumbers dose fu' sound ; Nor doctor need their weary life to spae, Nor drogs their noddle and their sense confound, Till death slip sleely on, and gie the hindmost wound.
Página iv - No sculptured marble here, nor pompous lay, ' No storied urn nor animated bust ;' This simple stone directs pale Scotia's way To pour her sorrows o'er her poet's dust.
Página 205 - A cauler burn o' siller sheen, Ran cannily out-owre the green ; And whan our gutcher's drouth had been To bide right sair, He loutit down, and drank bedeen A dainty skair. His bairns had a', before the flood, A langer tack o* flesh and blood ; • * And on mair pithy shanks they stood Than Noah's line, Wha still hae been a feckless brood, Wi
Página 179 - HAPPY the man who, void of cares and strife, In silken or in leathern purse retains A Splendid Shilling.
Página 100 - O great god Pan, to thee Thus do we sing ! Thou that keep'st us chaste and free As the young spring ; Ever be thy honour spoke, From that place the Morn is broke To that place Day doth unyoke...
Página 288 - Wi' thee but wi' a dowy heart; Aft frae the Fifan coast I've seen Thee tow'ring on thy summit green, So glowr the saints when first is given A fav'rite keek o...
Página 267 - That void our test'ments, and can freely gie Sic will and scoup to the ordain'd trustee, That he may tir our stateliest riggins bare, Nor acres, houses, woods, nor fishins spare, Till he can lend the stoitering state a lift Wi...