The Lives of the Scotish Poets: With Preliminary Dissertations on the Literary History of Scotland, and the Early Scotish Drama, Volume 2 |
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... affection , with a powerful and factious fami- ly which had often shaken the unstable throne of the Stewarts : yet instead of coöperating in their unwarrantable designs , he invariably de- ported himself with that meekness which ought ...
... affection , with a powerful and factious fami- ly which had often shaken the unstable throne of the Stewarts : yet instead of coöperating in their unwarrantable designs , he invariably de- ported himself with that meekness which ought ...
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... affections of Queen Pleasure . A morrowing tyde , quhen at the sone so schene . Out raschit had his bemis frome the sky , Ane auld gude man befoir the yet was sene Apone ane steid that raid full easalie . He rappit at the yet , but ...
... affections of Queen Pleasure . A morrowing tyde , quhen at the sone so schene . Out raschit had his bemis frome the sky , Ane auld gude man befoir the yet was sene Apone ane steid that raid full easalie . He rappit at the yet , but ...
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... affection of the young prince induced him to employ Lindsay in services of every description ; and the second only contains a general complaint of his unre- quited attendance at court . Mackenzie might have discovered a more appropriate ...
... affection of the young prince induced him to employ Lindsay in services of every description ; and the second only contains a general complaint of his unre- quited attendance at court . Mackenzie might have discovered a more appropriate ...
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... affection and although it appears from his own works that he experienced occasional morti- fications , yet his attachment continued without diminution . He was one of the few courtiers who were present at the king's premature death ...
... affection and although it appears from his own works that he experienced occasional morti- fications , yet his attachment continued without diminution . He was one of the few courtiers who were present at the king's premature death ...
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... affections of many . Whether this will be esteemed decisive evidence of the author or not , these poems were probably written merely to serve the present occasion ; and the more litera- ry reformers might have a share in them . In- deed ...
... affections of many . Whether this will be esteemed decisive evidence of the author or not , these poems were probably written merely to serve the present occasion ; and the more litera- ry reformers might have a share in them . In- deed ...
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Page 491 - But hark ! a rap comes gently to the door ; Jenny, wha kens the meaning o' the same, Tells how a neebor lad cam' o'er the moor, To do some errands, and convoy her hame. The wily mother sees the conscious flame Sparkle in Jenny's e'e, and flush her cheek ; With heart-struck anxious care, inquires his name, While Jenny hafflins is afraid to speak : Weel pleased the mother hears it's nae wild, worthless rake. Wi...
Page 498 - Wi' his last gasp his gab did gape ; Five tomahawks, wi' bluid red-rusted ; Five scimitars wi' murder crusted ; A garter, which a babe had strangled ; A knife, a father's throat had mangled, Whom his ain son o...
Page 491 - I've paced much this weary, mortal round, And sage experience bids me this declare : — If Heaven a draught of heavenly pleasure spare, One cordial in this melancholy vale, 'Tis when a youthful, loving, modest pair, In other's arms breathe out the tender tale, Beneath the milk-white thorn that scents the evening gale...
Page 497 - Nick, in shape o' beast; A towzie tyke, black, grim, and large, To gie them music was his charge: He screw'd the pipes and gart them skirl, Till roof and rafters a
Page 499 - Wha will be a traitor knave? Wha can fill a coward's grave? Wha sae base as be a slave? Let him turn and flee! Wha for Scotland's king and law Freedom's sword will strongly draw, Freeman stand, or freeman fa?
Page 45 - Nibelunge," such as it was written down at the end of the twelfth, or the beginning of the thirteenth century, is
Page 492 - Is there, in human form, that bears a heart A wretch! a villain! lost to love and truth! That can, with studied, sly, ensnaring art, Betray sweet Jenny's unsuspecting youth?
Page 455 - I resolved to publish my poems. I weighed my productions as impartially as was in my power ; I thought they had merit ; and it was a delicious idea that I should be called a clever fellow, even though it should never reach my ears...
Page 107 - Insuperable height of loftiest shade, Cedar, and pine, and fir, and branching palm, A sylvan scene, and, as the ranks ascend Shade above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view.
Page 107 - So on he fares, and to the border comes Of Eden, where delicious Paradise, Now nearer, crowns with her enclosure green...