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... muse were poured forth in satirical cas- tigation of his instructors , and in the common- place trifles , such as a boy usually writes . The abilities of young Fergusson secured him the regard of Dr Wilkie , author of the Epigoniad ...
... muse were poured forth in satirical cas- tigation of his instructors , and in the common- place trifles , such as a boy usually writes . The abilities of young Fergusson secured him the regard of Dr Wilkie , author of the Epigoniad ...
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... muses , as has been sagely discovered by some of his biographers . Dry and uninteresting as the study of law , and the practical exercise of juridical functions , may appear to those who are unacquainted with the principles of the one ...
... muses , as has been sagely discovered by some of his biographers . Dry and uninteresting as the study of law , and the practical exercise of juridical functions , may appear to those who are unacquainted with the principles of the one ...
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... Muse bedew'd with tears , the urn Of Genius and Misfortune - oft her song In deepest numbers breath'd the hapless tale ;. For many a heart which beat with heavenly thought , And many a hand , with energy divine That struck the lyre ...
... Muse bedew'd with tears , the urn Of Genius and Misfortune - oft her song In deepest numbers breath'd the hapless tale ;. For many a heart which beat with heavenly thought , And many a hand , with energy divine That struck the lyre ...
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... muse often sports with equal sprightliness and vivacity , and sometimes soars with an elevated sweep , she seldom , like the mighty genius of Burns , darts impetuous and sublime . Fergusson's poems , however , it must be remembered ...
... muse often sports with equal sprightliness and vivacity , and sometimes soars with an elevated sweep , she seldom , like the mighty genius of Burns , darts impetuous and sublime . Fergusson's poems , however , it must be remembered ...
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... Muses heard the shepherd's play : Fame with her brazen trump proclaim'd his name , And to attend the easy graceful lay , Pan from Arcadia to Tweeda came . Fond of the change , along the banks he stray'd , And sung unmindful of the ...
... Muses heard the shepherd's play : Fame with her brazen trump proclaim'd his name , And to attend the easy graceful lay , Pan from Arcadia to Tweeda came . Fond of the change , along the banks he stray'd , And sung unmindful of the ...
Palavras e frases frequentes
aften amang AMYNTAS Auld Reikie baith bauld beauty blaw blithe bonny Braid Claith braw breeze browster canty cauld cauler cheer chiel CORYDON cou'd DAMON death dowie e'er Edina's Edinburgh fair Fancy fouk frae friends gales genius GEORDIE gloom glowr green groves gude hail hame hath heart ilka Invermay lads landlord loun lyre maun melody mind mirth mony morn mourn Muse nae mair Naiads ne'er never night numbers o'er OLIVER & CO owre plain poortith reign Robert Fergusson round scene Scotland shade shepherd shore shou'd sigh siller Simmer sing smiles song spring St Andrews strain streams swain sweet thee thou thro TIMANTHES tongue trow Twas unco virtue voice wame weel weet Whan Whare Whase wing wirrikow woes wonted youth
Passagens conhecidas
Página 116 - 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 250 - Mark it, Cesario; it is old and plain: 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 266 - For a' that life ahint can spare. The gowdspink, that sae lang has kend Thy happy sweets (his wonted friend), Her sad confinement ill can brook In some dark chamber's dowy nook ; Tho' Mary's hand his nebb supplies, Unkend to hunger's painfu...
Página 248 - He maunna care for being seen Before he sheath His body in a scabbard clean O' gude Braid Claith. For, gin he come wi...
Página 288 - And dim our dolefu' days wi' bairnly fear ; The mind's aye cradled when the grave is near. Yet thrift, industrious, bides her latest days, Tho' age her sair-dow'd front wi' runcles wave ; Yet frae the russet lap the spindle plays ; Her e'enin stent reels she as weel's the lave. On some feast-day the wee things, buskit braw, Shall heeze her heart up wi...
Página 247 - Wi' gude Braid Claith. On Sabbath-days the barber spark, Whan he has done wi' scrapin wark, Wi' siller broachie in his sark, Gangs trigly, faith ! Or to the Meadow, or the Park, In gude Braid Claith.
Página 320 - On einings cauld wi' glee we'd trudge To heat our shins in Johnny's lodge; The de'il ane thought his bum to budge Wi' siller on us : To claw het pints we'd never grudge O
Página 243 - HAPPY the man who, void of cares and strife, In silken or in leathern purse retains A Splendid Shilling. He nor hears with pain New oysters...
Página 198 - When you censure the age, Be cautious and sage, Lest the courtiers offended, should be ; If you mention vice or bribe, 'Tis so pat to all the tribe, Each cries — That was levelld at me.
Página 313 - I'd been there, How I wad trimm'd the bill o' fare ! For ne'er sic surly wight as he Had met wi' sic respect frae me. Mind ye what Sam,' the lying loun ! Has in his Dictionar laid down ? That aits in England are a feast To cow an' horse, an' sican beast, While in Scots ground this growth was common To gust the gab o