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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... seen thy morn , in smiles array'd , With crimson blush bepaint the eastern sky ; But now the dawn creeps mournful o'er the glade , Shrowded in colours of a sable dye . So have I seen the fair with laughing eye , And visage cheerful as ...
... seen thy morn , in smiles array'd , With crimson blush bepaint the eastern sky ; But now the dawn creeps mournful o'er the glade , Shrowded in colours of a sable dye . So have I seen the fair with laughing eye , And visage cheerful as ...
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... for preservation , That patent it may be , and seen In WALTER'S Weekly Magazine . * Solicitor at law , and another of the Poet's friends . † A Tavern keeper . Witness whereof , these presents wrote are By William Blair 152.
... for preservation , That patent it may be , and seen In WALTER'S Weekly Magazine . * Solicitor at law , and another of the Poet's friends . † A Tavern keeper . Witness whereof , these presents wrote are By William Blair 152.
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... seen In me thro ' humour or chagrin , I crave his genius may narrate in The strength of Ciceronian Latin . * The Penny - Post Master . An excellent Classical Scholar RESERVING to myself the pow'r To alter this at latest 156.
... seen In me thro ' humour or chagrin , I crave his genius may narrate in The strength of Ciceronian Latin . * The Penny - Post Master . An excellent Classical Scholar RESERVING to myself the pow'r To alter this at latest 156.
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... seen upo ' the dubs ; At morning , whan frae pleugh or fauld I come , I'll see a bra ' reek rising frae my lum , An ' ablins think to get a rantin blaze , To fley the frost awa ' , and tost my taes ; But whan I shoot my nose in , ten to ...
... seen upo ' the dubs ; At morning , whan frae pleugh or fauld I come , I'll see a bra ' reek rising frae my lum , An ' ablins think to get a rantin blaze , To fley the frost awa ' , and tost my taes ; But whan I shoot my nose in , ten to ...
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... seen Before he sheath His body in a scabbard clean O ' gude Braid Claith . For , gin he come wi ' coat - thread bare , A feg for him she winna care , But crook her bonny mou ' fou ' sair , And scald him baith : Wooers shou'd ay their ...
... seen Before he sheath His body in a scabbard clean O ' gude Braid Claith . For , gin he come wi ' coat - thread bare , A feg for him she winna care , But crook her bonny mou ' fou ' sair , And scald him baith : Wooers shou'd ay their ...
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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...