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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... wide world , therefore , Wept , because he could conquer no more . A triumph's a dazzling show , Well fitted to tickle the crowd ; But , from widows and orphans tears flow , Every trophy to stain and enshrowd When from courtier thou art ...
... wide world , therefore , Wept , because he could conquer no more . A triumph's a dazzling show , Well fitted to tickle the crowd ; But , from widows and orphans tears flow , Every trophy to stain and enshrowd When from courtier thou art ...
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... wide , Princes from states , and 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 ...
... wide , Princes from states , and 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 ...
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... wide- Flower of our country's chivalry and pride ; His matchless powers so nicely balanced are , Vict'ry descending settles on his car . 7 A faithful friend , and firm supporter , still He finds in modest , bold , undaunted Hill , Whose ...
... wide- Flower of our country's chivalry and pride ; His matchless powers so nicely balanced are , Vict'ry descending settles on his car . 7 A faithful friend , and firm supporter , still He finds in modest , bold , undaunted Hill , Whose ...
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... ] HAIL , venerable Oak ! hail to the light , To Queensberry we owe the wondrous sight Of thy stupendous uncorrupted mass , For centuries concealed in deep morass , Perhaps beneath thy wide extended boughs Have Roman legions lodged 89.
... ] HAIL , venerable Oak ! hail to the light , To Queensberry we owe the wondrous sight Of thy stupendous uncorrupted mass , For centuries concealed in deep morass , Perhaps beneath thy wide extended boughs Have Roman legions lodged 89.
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... wide extended boughs Have Roman legions lodged - old Albion's foes Or underneath thy thick impervious shade , Has worshipped oft the superstitious druid . Thy glory more remote may still have been , Before Phoenicians our Isle had seen ...
... wide extended boughs Have Roman legions lodged - old Albion's foes Or underneath thy thick impervious shade , Has worshipped oft the superstitious druid . Thy glory more remote may still have been , Before Phoenicians our Isle had seen ...
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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.