Jones's Cabinet Edition of British Poets, Volume 2Jones & Company, 1831 |
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... youth , who has not received the polish of academical dis- cipline , and who has been but sparingly blessed with opportunities for the prosecution of scholastic pursuits , must necessarily be defective in the accu- racy and finished ...
... youth , who has not received the polish of academical dis- cipline , and who has been but sparingly blessed with opportunities for the prosecution of scholastic pursuits , must necessarily be defective in the accu- racy and finished ...
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... youth , the flattering future seems ; How sweet is manhood in the infant's dreams ; The dire mistake too soon is brought to light , And all is buried in redoubled night . Yet some can rise superior to their pain , And in their breasts ...
... youth , the flattering future seems ; How sweet is manhood in the infant's dreams ; The dire mistake too soon is brought to light , And all is buried in redoubled night . Yet some can rise superior to their pain , And in their breasts ...
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... youth was sped , A lonely life the moody maiden fed . Still would she trace each dear , each well - known walk , Still by the moonlight to her love would talk , And fancy , as she paced among the trees , She heard his whispers in the ...
... youth was sped , A lonely life the moody maiden fed . Still would she trace each dear , each well - known walk , Still by the moonlight to her love would talk , And fancy , as she paced among the trees , She heard his whispers in the ...
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... youth Of all our good King's men , And he was gone to the Holy Land To fight the Saracen . And many a month had páss'd away , And many a rolling year , But nothing the maid from Palestine Could of her lover hear . Full oft she vainly ...
... youth Of all our good King's men , And he was gone to the Holy Land To fight the Saracen . And many a month had páss'd away , And many a rolling year , But nothing the maid from Palestine Could of her lover hear . Full oft she vainly ...
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... youth with her sinewy And his face grew deadly blue ; And his father he tore his thin gray hair , And kiss'd the livid hue . And then she told , how she bored a hole In the bark , and it fill'd away : [ hands , And ' twas rare to hear ...
... youth with her sinewy And his face grew deadly blue ; And his father he tore his thin gray hair , And kiss'd the livid hue . And then she told , how she bored a hole In the bark , and it fill'd away : [ hands , And ' twas rare to hear ...
Palavras e frases frequentes
amang art thou auld bard beauty beneath Birks of Aberfeldy blast bloom blow bonnie bonnie lass bosom braw breast Burns charms claut dark dear death e'en e'er Elegy ev'ry fair fame fancy fate fear flowers frae grace green grove hand hast hear heart Heaven hill honour hope hour Hudibras John Barleycorn lass lassie lonely lyre maid mair maun mind monie morn mourn Muse ne'er never night o'er owre peace plain pleasure poet poor pow'r pride Quoth rill ROBERT BURNS round scene Scotland shade sigh sing skelpin smile song soul sparklin spring stream sweet tear tell thee There's thine thou thought toil trees Tune Twas vale wander wave weary weel whistle whyles wild wind ye'll youth
Passagens conhecidas
Página 27 - An' each for other's weelfare kindly spiers : The social hours, swift-wing'd, unnotic'd fleet ; Each tells the uncos that he sees or hears ; The parents, partial, eye their hopeful years ; Anticipation forward points the view. The mother, wi' her needle an' her sheers, Gars auld claes look amaist as weel's the new; The father mixes a
Página 92 - I'll ne'er blame my partial fancy, Naething could resist my Nancy; But to see her was to love her, Love but her, and love for ever. Had we never lov'd sae kindly, Had we never lov'd sae blindly, Never met — or never parted, We had ne'er been broken-hearted.
Página 27 - An' makes him quite forget his labour an' his toil. Belyve the elder bairns come drapping in, At service out, amang the farmers roun', Some ca' the pleugh, some herd, some tentie rin A cannie errand to a neebor town : Their eldest hope, their Jenny, woman grown, In youthfu...
Página 27 - And decks the lily fair in flow'ry pride, Would, in the way His wisdom sees the best, For them and for their little ones provide; But, chiefly, in their hearts with Grace Divine preside.
Página 19 - tis He alone Decidedly can try us, He knows each chord its various tone, Each spring its various bias : Then at the balance let's be mute, We never can adjust it ; What's done we partly may compute, But know not what's resisted.
Página 44 - Till roof and rafters a' did dirl. Coffins stood round, like open presses, That...
Página 27 - Then kneeling down, to Heaven's eternal King, The saint, the father, and the husband prays: Hope "springs exulting on triumphant wing," That thus they all shall meet in future days, There ever bask in uncreated rays, No more to sigh, or shed the bitter tear, Together hymning their Creator's praise. In such society, yet still more dear; While circling time moves round in an eternal sphere.
Página 56 - 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 71 - I hear her in the tunefu' birds, I hear her charm the air : There's not a bonnie flower that springs By fountain, shaw, or green, There's not a bonnie bird that sings But minds me o
Página 17 - twill pass for wit; Care not for feeling — pass your proper jest, And stand a critic, hated yet caress'd. And shall we own such judgment? no— as soon Seek roses in December— ice in June; Hope constancy in wind, or corn in chaff; Believe a woman or an epitaph, Or any other thing that's false, before You trust in critics, who themselves are sore Or yield one single thought to be misled By Jeffrey's heart, or Lambe's Boeotian head.