Poems on Various Subjects: But Chiefly Moral and Descriptive, with Songs, and Copious NotesPrinted at the Dumfries & Galloway courier office, 1822 - 283 pages |
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... appearing in the character of an Author ; and it is still with the greatest diffidence I offer myself to your notice , in that capacity . From a very early period of life , I / have been a votary of the Muses , and frequently employed a ...
... appearing in the character of an Author ; and it is still with the greatest diffidence I offer myself to your notice , in that capacity . From a very early period of life , I / have been a votary of the Muses , and frequently employed a ...
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... appear , And white is the mantle the Lowthers now wear . Even those who do into futurity pry , Begin to divine we'll have storms by and bye . The grouse , from the mountain , descend to the moor , And ' neath thickest cover the ...
... appear , And white is the mantle the Lowthers now wear . Even those who do into futurity pry , Begin to divine we'll have storms by and bye . The grouse , from the mountain , descend to the moor , And ' neath thickest cover the ...
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... appear on the sea , So for their bravadoes affrighten'd not be . " " But , " quoth the gudewife , " if you'll read Mr Peden , A man the most sceptic may even confide in , He says , at Kirkcudbright they surely will lan ' , And that ...
... appear on the sea , So for their bravadoes affrighten'd not be . " " But , " quoth the gudewife , " if you'll read Mr Peden , A man the most sceptic may even confide in , He says , at Kirkcudbright they surely will lan ' , And that ...
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... appears the blue sky , When the wandering shepherd around casts his eye ; But through a false medium each object is seen- And sure these are not the famed hills of Dalveen . Pondering long with himself which tract to pursue , " 24.
... appears the blue sky , When the wandering shepherd around casts his eye ; But through a false medium each object is seen- And sure these are not the famed hills of Dalveen . Pondering long with himself which tract to pursue , " 24.
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... appears in his view ; In transport , he cries , " I may still reach my home , For yonder , Lo ! yonder's the moss - cover'd stone . " In June and in July when weather was fair , To this fav'rite stone he was wont to repair , And under ...
... appears in his view ; In transport , he cries , " I may still reach my home , For yonder , Lo ! yonder's the moss - cover'd stone . " In June and in July when weather was fair , To this fav'rite stone he was wont to repair , And under ...
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Page 8 - In poets as true genius is but rare, True taste as seldom is the critic's share ; Both must alike from Heaven derive their light, These born to judge, as well as those to write.
Page 280 - ... would vitrify or dissipate any substance known to us. Sir Isaac Newton computed the heat of the comet that appeared in the year 1680, when nearest the sun, to be 2,000 times hotter than red-hot iron, and that, being thus heated, it must retain its heat till it...
Page 282 - Others of less note followed the infamous example. On their combined evidence several of the conspirators were seized, condemned, and executed. Among these, the most distinguished were Russell and Sidney. Both died with the intrepidity of men who had resolved to hazard their lives in the field, in order to break the fetters of slavery, and rescue themselves and their fellow-subjects from an ignominious despotism.