The Lives of the Scotish Poets: With Preliminary Dissertations on the Literary History of Scotland, and the Early Scotish Drama, Volumen2Alex. Lawrie and Company, 1804 - 506 páginas |
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... merits should be rewarded by some more ample endowment " . After the death of Stewart , William Elphinston , Bishop of Aberdeen , had been nominated to the vacant see of St Andrews : but his modesty or infirmities inducing him to de ...
... merits should be rewarded by some more ample endowment " . After the death of Stewart , William Elphinston , Bishop of Aberdeen , had been nominated to the vacant see of St Andrews : but his modesty or infirmities inducing him to de ...
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... merit , which in his native country had only procured him envy , was here rewarded by the grant of a liberal pension " . Various acts of mu- nificence evinced this monarch a patron of lite- rature and it is with some justice that ...
... merit , which in his native country had only procured him envy , was here rewarded by the grant of a liberal pension " . Various acts of mu- nificence evinced this monarch a patron of lite- rature and it is with some justice that ...
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... merit and a comparative estimate must be formed of the characters of dif- ferent ages , nations , and languages . Yet after every requisite indulgence is granted , the intrinsic beauty of his compositions will not fail of excit- ing the ...
... merit and a comparative estimate must be formed of the characters of dif- ferent ages , nations , and languages . Yet after every requisite indulgence is granted , the intrinsic beauty of his compositions will not fail of excit- ing the ...
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... merits . Without pronouncing it the best version of this poem that ever was or ever will be executed , we may at least venture to af- firm that it is the production of a bold and ener- getic writer , whose knowledge of the language of ...
... merits . Without pronouncing it the best version of this poem that ever was or ever will be executed , we may at least venture to af- firm that it is the production of a bold and ener- getic writer , whose knowledge of the language of ...
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... merits that appellationi . On the destruction of Troy Caxton had publish- ed a kind of prose romance , which he professes to have translated from the French : and the Eng- lish reader was taught to consider this motley composition as a ...
... merits that appellationi . On the destruction of Troy Caxton had publish- ed a kind of prose romance , which he professes to have translated from the French : and the Eng- lish reader was taught to consider this motley composition as a ...
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Página 491 - But hark ! a rap comes gently to the door ; Jenny, wha kens the meaning o' the same, Tells how a neebor lad cam' o'er the moor, To do some errands, and convoy her hame. The wily mother sees the conscious flame Sparkle in Jenny's e'e, and flush her cheek ; With heart-struck anxious care, inquires his name, While Jenny hafflins is afraid to speak : Weel pleased the mother hears it's nae wild, worthless rake. Wi...
Página 498 - Wi' his last gasp his gab did gape ; Five tomahawks, wi' bluid red-rusted ; Five scimitars wi' murder crusted ; A garter, which a babe had strangled ; A knife, a father's throat had mangled, Whom his ain son o...
Página 491 - I've paced much this weary, mortal round, And sage experience bids me this declare : — If Heaven a draught of heavenly pleasure spare, One cordial in this melancholy vale, 'Tis when a youthful, loving, modest pair, In other's arms breathe out the tender tale, Beneath the milk-white thorn that scents the evening gale...
Página 497 - Nick, in shape o' beast; A towzie tyke, black, grim, and large, To gie them music was his charge: He screw'd the pipes and gart them skirl, Till roof and rafters a
Página 499 - Wha will be a traitor knave? Wha can fill a coward's grave? Wha sae base as be a slave? Let him turn and flee! Wha for Scotland's king and law Freedom's sword will strongly draw, Freeman stand, or freeman fa?
Página 45 - Nibelunge," such as it was written down at the end of the twelfth, or the beginning of the thirteenth century, is
Página 492 - Is there, in human form, that bears a heart A wretch! a villain! lost to love and truth! That can, with studied, sly, ensnaring art, Betray sweet Jenny's unsuspecting youth?
Página 455 - I resolved to publish my poems. I weighed my productions as impartially as was in my power ; I thought they had merit ; and it was a delicious idea that I should be called a clever fellow, even though it should never reach my ears...
Página 107 - Insuperable height of loftiest shade, Cedar, and pine, and fir, and branching palm, A sylvan scene, and, as the ranks ascend Shade above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view.
Página 107 - So on he fares, and to the border comes Of Eden, where delicious Paradise, Now nearer, crowns with her enclosure green...