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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... lives , besides a great number of the fleecy flocks . ] PART FIRST . STERN Winter's rough storms we have not yet beheld , And beautiful verdure still covers the field ; The daisies unblushing their petals display , In January , as in ...
... lives , besides a great number of the fleecy flocks . ] PART FIRST . STERN Winter's rough storms we have not yet beheld , And beautiful verdure still covers the field ; The daisies unblushing their petals display , In January , as in ...
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... live in sweet Solitude , From the bustle of bus'ness afar . I will to the brook now descend , And in angling exert all my skill ; But my pastime I cannot defend , I use all endeavours to kill . My counterfeit fly I display On purpose ...
... live in sweet Solitude , From the bustle of bus'ness afar . I will to the brook now descend , And in angling exert all my skill ; But my pastime I cannot defend , I use all endeavours to kill . My counterfeit fly I display On purpose ...
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... live , And endeavour in virtue to rise . A RESEARCH AFTER HAPPINESS . CONTENTMENT , thou sweet'ner of life , In what blest abode dost thou dwell ? Free from malice , detraction , and strife , Say , lovest thou poverty's dell ? On Hope's ...
... live , And endeavour in virtue to rise . A RESEARCH AFTER HAPPINESS . CONTENTMENT , thou sweet'ner of life , In what blest abode dost thou dwell ? Free from malice , detraction , and strife , Say , lovest thou poverty's dell ? On Hope's ...
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... live and peaceful die . BONAPARTE'S RETREAT FROM MOSCOW . Written extempore upon reading the twenty- ninth Bulletin , published after his arrival at Paris . BONAPARTE he says to wily Murat , For God's sake from Moscow let us get away ...
... live and peaceful die . BONAPARTE'S RETREAT FROM MOSCOW . Written extempore upon reading the twenty- ninth Bulletin , published after his arrival at Paris . BONAPARTE he says to wily Murat , For God's sake from Moscow let us get away ...
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... come , my muse ! a willing tribute give To those who bravely found a soldier's grave ; Although my numbers cannot mention all , Yet in their country's annals live they shall . The Royals , Enniskillings and the Greys , Richly deserve 75.
... come , my muse ! a willing tribute give To those who bravely found a soldier's grave ; Although my numbers cannot mention all , Yet in their country's annals live they shall . The Royals , Enniskillings and the Greys , Richly deserve 75.
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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.