Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volume 2Carey and Hart, 1842 |
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... true it is , that he was sometimes guilty of both ; and , but for his transcendent genius , they might have obscured the lustre of his fame . But such sins are not very frequent in the " Seasons , " and were all com- mitted in the glow ...
... true it is , that he was sometimes guilty of both ; and , but for his transcendent genius , they might have obscured the lustre of his fame . But such sins are not very frequent in the " Seasons , " and were all com- mitted in the glow ...
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... True , he has been known to look with a certain sort of soft sur- liness upon a pretty Caffre girl , and to walk past without eating her but simply because , an hour or two before , he had dined on a Hottentot venus . The secret lay not ...
... True , he has been known to look with a certain sort of soft sur- liness upon a pretty Caffre girl , and to walk past without eating her but simply because , an hour or two before , he had dined on a Hottentot venus . The secret lay not ...
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... true poetry , did ever such votaries devoutly worship ? Cold , false , and hollow , ever has been their admiration of genius - and dif- ferent , indeed , from their evanescent ejaculations , has ever been the enduring voice of fame ...
... true poetry , did ever such votaries devoutly worship ? Cold , false , and hollow , ever has been their admiration of genius - and dif- ferent , indeed , from their evanescent ejaculations , has ever been the enduring voice of fame ...
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... Robin would have scorned “ an awmous " from any hands but from those of nature ; nor in those days , needed he help from woman - born . True , that times began by and by to go rather hard with 38 WILSON'S MISCELLANEOUS WRITINGS .
... Robin would have scorned “ an awmous " from any hands but from those of nature ; nor in those days , needed he help from woman - born . True , that times began by and by to go rather hard with 38 WILSON'S MISCELLANEOUS WRITINGS .
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... , by whatever genius or erudition adorned . Burns died an exciseman , it is true , at the age of thirty - seven ; on the same day died an English curate we could name , a surpassing scholar , and of WINTER RHAPSODY . 39.
... , by whatever genius or erudition adorned . Burns died an exciseman , it is true , at the age of thirty - seven ; on the same day died an English curate we could name , a surpassing scholar , and of WINTER RHAPSODY . 39.
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admiration Allan Cunninghame Audubon beauty beneath birds Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine bless bosom breath bright Burns Christopher North cold dear death delight divine dream ears earth Eusebius eyes face fair fancy fear feel flowers Gala water genius glory grave Hamish hand happy hear heard heart heaven hills hope hour human imagination immortal immortal song inspired Italy knew land lassie light living look moral mountains naturalists nature nest never night o'er Ornithology passion perhaps philosophic naturalist poem poet poetical poetry rhapsodist Robert Burns round Scotland Scottish seems shepherd shining sing sleep smile snow song soul speak spirit stars strong sublime sugh sweet tears tell tempest thee thing thou thought tion trees truth verse voice whole wild Wilson Windermere wings wonder woods words young young Jessie youth
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Página 10 - Where through the long-drawn aisle and fretted vault The pealing anthem swells the note of praise.
Página 21 - The Lord giveth, and the Lord ' taketh away ; blessed be the name of the Lord.
Página 356 - MARY YE banks and braes and streams around The castle o' Montgomery, Green be your woods, and fair your flowers, Your waters never drumlie! There simmer first unfauld her robes, And there the langest tarry; For there I took the last fareweel O
Página 357 - O pale, pale now, those rosy lips, I aft hae kiss'd sae fondly ! And closed for aye the sparkling glance That dwelt on me sae kindly : And mouldering now in silent dust That heart that lo'ed me dearly ! But still within my bosom's core Shall live my Highland Mary.
Página 352 - Let him follow me! By Oppression's woes and pains! By your sons in servile chains! We will drain our dearest veins, But they shall be free! •Lay the proud usurpers low ! Tyrants fall in every foe ! Liberty's in every blow! Let us do or die...
Página 133 - Blessings be with them — and eternal praise, Who gave us nobler loves, and nobler cares, The Poets, who on earth have made us Heirs Of truth and pure delight by heavenly lays ! Oh ! might my name be numbered among theirs, Then gladly would I end my mortal days.
Página 25 - Let down the flood, and half dissolved by day, Rustles no more; but to the sedgy bank Fast grows, or gathers round the pointed stone, A crystal pavement, by the breath of Heaven Cemented firm ; till, seized from shore to shore, The whole imprison'd river growls below.
Página 354 - For a' that, and a' that, Their dignities, and a' that, The pith o' sense and pride o' worth Are higher ranks than a' that. Then let us pray that come it may — As come it will for a' that — That sense and worth, o'er a' the earth. May bear the gree, and a' that. For a' that, and a' that, It's comin' yet, for a' that, — That man to man, the warld o'er.
Página 29 - Beneath the formless wild; but wanders on From hill to dale, still more and more astray : Impatient flouncing through the drifted heaps, Stung with the thoughts of home; the thoughts of home Rush on his nerves> and call their vigour forth In many a vain attempt.
Página 355 - THEIR groves o' sweet myrtle let foreign lands reckon, Where bright-beaming summers exalt the perfume ; Far dearer to me yon lone glen o' green breckan, Wi' the burn stealing under the lang yellow broom. Far dearer to me are yon humble broom bowers, Where the blue-bell and gowan lurk lowly unseen : For there, lightly tripping amang the wild flowers, A listening the linnet, aft wanders my Jean. Tho...