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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... storm , more severe than any that had occurred within the recollection of the oldest person then living , which ... storms we have not yet beheld , And beautiful verdure still covers the field ; The daisies unblushing their petals ...
... storm , more severe than any that had occurred within the recollection of the oldest person then living , which ... storms we have not yet beheld , And beautiful verdure still covers the field ; The daisies unblushing their petals ...
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... storms truly dreadful did forthwith arise ; The wind blew so loud , and so thick fell the snow , That Nature seem'd ... storm and the darkness so did them affray , That , anxious they wait for the dawning of day . By the dawn , every ...
... storms truly dreadful did forthwith arise ; The wind blew so loud , and so thick fell the snow , That Nature seem'd ... storm and the darkness so did them affray , That , anxious they wait for the dawning of day . By the dawn , every ...
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... storm it continues , and still does increase , O'erwhelming our shepherd with doubt and distress . He's also in peril from craig and from scar , With dangers at hand , and worse dangers afar ! His mind is bewilder'd as well as his eye ...
... storm it continues , and still does increase , O'erwhelming our shepherd with doubt and distress . He's also in peril from craig and from scar , With dangers at hand , and worse dangers afar ! His mind is bewilder'd as well as his eye ...
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... tale , On the wreath he sinks lifeless , the storm does prevail . His dog then commenced a most pitiful howl ; Is it reason ? not reason , dogs have not a soul ; But instinct is strong in the true canine kind , 25 25.
... tale , On the wreath he sinks lifeless , the storm does prevail . His dog then commenced a most pitiful howl ; Is it reason ? not reason , dogs have not a soul ; But instinct is strong in the true canine kind , 25 25.
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... storms thou their comforter art , And at death wafts their souls to their God . ON THE MANNERS OF THE AGE . COULD I depicture in my page The manners of this flippant age , O how the Beau it would enrage ! - Likewise the Belle ; The ...
... storms thou their comforter art , And at death wafts their souls to their God . ON THE MANNERS OF THE AGE . COULD I depicture in my page The manners of this flippant age , O how the Beau it would enrage ! - Likewise the Belle ; The ...
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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.
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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.