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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... king and our country we'll spend our heart's blood ; We Britons may fall , but shall ne'er be subdued . " In such conversation night passes away , Until the gudeman he says , " Come let us pray When they all unite in religious devotion ...
... king and our country we'll spend our heart's blood ; We Britons may fall , but shall ne'er be subdued . " In such conversation night passes away , Until the gudeman he says , " Come let us pray When they all unite in religious devotion ...
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... kings ; Lo ! thou wert not there to be found ; Crowns are gewgaws and troublesome things ; There are thorns on their pillows of down . Yes , Royalty is but a load , Else , why does the old beggar sing , While the king on his throne is ...
... kings ; Lo ! thou wert not there to be found ; Crowns are gewgaws and troublesome things ; There are thorns on their pillows of down . Yes , Royalty is but a load , Else , why does the old beggar sing , While the king on his throne is ...
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... King . Under thy mild , paternal sway , These lands do happiness enjoy , Far , far above all other lands , That suffer under tyrants ' hands . The good example thou dost show , Like the pure streamlet , will bestow Its salutary ...
... King . Under thy mild , paternal sway , These lands do happiness enjoy , Far , far above all other lands , That suffer under tyrants ' hands . The good example thou dost show , Like the pure streamlet , will bestow Its salutary ...
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... the Scriptures , and there you will see How a king from a debt his servant did free ; But instead of doing as he was done by , By his fellow - servant he dealt cruelly . And when of his conduct his lord he was told 58.
... the Scriptures , and there you will see How a king from a debt his servant did free ; But instead of doing as he was done by , By his fellow - servant he dealt cruelly . And when of his conduct his lord he was told 58.
Page 65
... kings from empires hurled , And proved the bane and ruin of the world . Then unto Brussels let us take a bound , And see what food's amidst the Fleemings found ; E Perhaps we'll hear the murdering cannons roar , Or find 65.
... kings from empires hurled , And proved the bane and ruin of the world . Then unto Brussels let us take a bound , And see what food's amidst the Fleemings found ; E Perhaps we'll hear the murdering cannons roar , Or find 65.
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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.