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... leaving the house , however , Brown expostulated on the indefensibility of practising so boldly on the simplicity of an unsuspecting family , and of mislead- ing their conceptions as to the cure of the distemper , by a stratagem on ...
... leaving the house , however , Brown expostulated on the indefensibility of practising so boldly on the simplicity of an unsuspecting family , and of mislead- ing their conceptions as to the cure of the distemper , by a stratagem on ...
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... Leaves from My Autobiography , by the Rev. Dr. Charles Rogers , where the story is told at great length , on the authority of the narrator's aged father . were superficial , while their manners did not con- ciliate xxviii . FERGUSSON'S ...
... Leaves from My Autobiography , by the Rev. Dr. Charles Rogers , where the story is told at great length , on the authority of the narrator's aged father . were superficial , while their manners did not con- ciliate xxviii . FERGUSSON'S ...
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... leaves of which were devoted by him to the purpose of receiving scraps of speeches , evidently the germs of a play which he meditated writing . To the extent of two acts , he had written besides a tragedy founded on the achievements and ...
... leaves of which were devoted by him to the purpose of receiving scraps of speeches , evidently the germs of a play which he meditated writing . To the extent of two acts , he had written besides a tragedy founded on the achievements and ...
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... leaving the impression , as he did , that the £ 50 proved a curse rather than a blessing , in that the drouthy " and " dissipated " poet spent it in " riotous 66 living . " When , many years after , Dr. BIOGRAPHICAL INTRODUCTION . xli .
... leaving the impression , as he did , that the £ 50 proved a curse rather than a blessing , in that the drouthy " and " dissipated " poet spent it in " riotous 66 living . " When , many years after , Dr. BIOGRAPHICAL INTRODUCTION . xli .
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... leaving to return home , his feet caught in a stair carpet , and he was thrown to the bottom of the steps , receiving such injury about the head that he bled profusely . When borne home to his mother's house he could give no account of ...
... leaving to return home , his feet caught in a stair carpet , and he was thrown to the bottom of the steps , receiving such injury about the head that he bled profusely . When borne home to his mother's house he could give no account of ...
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Palavras e frases frequentes
A. B. Grosart aften Alexander Runciman Allan Ramsay amang Andrews Auld Reekie baith bauld beauty bell blaw blythe bonnie braw browster Burns caller canty cauld causey cheer chiel cottar crack David Steuart death dowie e'er Edinburgh edition fair fancy fouk frae gang gars glow'rs Grosart gude braid claith hame hauds heart ilka Ingle lads loun maun mony mourn Muse nae mair ne'er nett never night numbers o'er owre Perth poems poet poet's poortith portrait Precentor Printed Robert Fergusson Robin Gibb round Ruddiman Runciman sang says Scotland Scots Scottish shopies sigh siller simmer Sing farrel smiles song spring sweet thee thir days thole Thomas Ruddiman thou TIMANTHES trow tune unco verse wame weary weel weet Whase Whilk William Wilkie wirrikow
Passagens conhecidas
Página 151 - 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 213 - Where be your gibes now ? your gambols ? your songs ? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table in a roar ? Not one now, to mock your own grinning?
Página 14 - 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 12 - Gude faith, he mauna fa' that! For a' that, an' a' that, Their dignities an' a' that, The pith o' sense, an' pride o' worth. Are higher rank 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. Shall bear the gree, an' a' that. For a
Página xi - CURSE on ungrateful man, that can be pleas'd, And yet can starve the author of the pleasure ! O thou, my elder brother in misfortune, By far my elder brother in the Muses...
Página 191 - 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 9 - HAPPY the man who, void of cares and strife, In silken or in leathern purse retains A Splendid Shilling.
Página 13 - While he draws breath, Till his four quarters are bedeckit Wi' gude Braid Claith. On Sabbath-days the barber spark, Whan he has done wi...
Página xlix - 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 59 - 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