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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... written Campvere . He has transfi- gured several other proper names ; and I find that I have occasionally followed him without a sufficient degree of circumspection . For Würzbur read Würzburg . For at Enzie in Fouchabers read near Foch ...
... written Campvere . He has transfi- gured several other proper names ; and I find that I have occasionally followed him without a sufficient degree of circumspection . For Würzbur read Würzburg . For at Enzie in Fouchabers read near Foch ...
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... written in Latin , seems to have shared the common fate of the writings entrusted to Polydore ; who in order to secure the faults of his work from the danger of detection , is said to have destroyed many invaluable monuments of ...
... written in Latin , seems to have shared the common fate of the writings entrusted to Polydore ; who in order to secure the faults of his work from the danger of detection , is said to have destroyed many invaluable monuments of ...
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... written by the said three estates of the realm , and delivered along with the present proclamation under the great seal of the King's Grace . " 1 Beaton , being determined at all hazards to secure the archbishopric of St Andrews and the ...
... written by the said three estates of the realm , and delivered along with the present proclamation under the great seal of the King's Grace . " 1 Beaton , being determined at all hazards to secure the archbishopric of St Andrews and the ...
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... written by Robert Blackburne , M.D .; who has only presented us with the initials of his name . It has frequently been ascribed to Dr Ralph Bathurst . See Mr Warton's Life of Bathurst , p . 50 . turies posterior to the age of Douglas ...
... written by Robert Blackburne , M.D .; who has only presented us with the initials of his name . It has frequently been ascribed to Dr Ralph Bathurst . See Mr Warton's Life of Bathurst , p . 50 . turies posterior to the age of Douglas ...
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... written be- fore or since but cometh short of him . is not such a piece to be found as is the prologue to the eighth book , at least in our language . " There His prologues to the seventh and twelfth books display an admirable vein of ...
... written be- fore or since but cometh short of him . is not such a piece to be found as is the prologue to the eighth book , at least in our language . " There His prologues to the seventh and twelfth books display an admirable vein of ...
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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...