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... Writers Apprentices , 10. Epigram on the late Hugo Arnot , Esq . Advocate , 11. Song intended to have been sung between the acts of a play , ( acted by particular desire of the Dean and Faculty of Advocates ) , in the character of a ...
... Writers Apprentices , 10. Epigram on the late Hugo Arnot , Esq . Advocate , 11. Song intended to have been sung between the acts of a play , ( acted by particular desire of the Dean and Faculty of Advocates ) , in the character of a ...
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... Writers to the Signet , to the Right Honourable the Lords of Council and Session , 107 · 24. The Complaint , No. 2 ; or , further reasons why the wages of the Writers ' Clerks and Apprentices should be increased , 109 25. Your young Writer ...
... Writers to the Signet , to the Right Honourable the Lords of Council and Session , 107 · 24. The Complaint , No. 2 ; or , further reasons why the wages of the Writers ' Clerks and Apprentices should be increased , 109 25. Your young Writer ...
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... Writer to the Signet , was the offending party , if the rest be true , and that such a scene did actually take place cannot reasonably be doubted ; for , besides the distinct recollection of an old gentleman on the subject , who died ...
... Writer to the Signet , was the offending party , if the rest be true , and that such a scene did actually take place cannot reasonably be doubted ; for , besides the distinct recollection of an old gentleman on the subject , who died ...
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... writing to him the way and manner in which he proposed they should be conducted . § It has been said , and although there does not seem to be * Johnstoni Historia , p . 231. Amst . 1615 , folio . † Alexander King was Judge of the ...
... writing to him the way and manner in which he proposed they should be conducted . § It has been said , and although there does not seem to be * Johnstoni Historia , p . 231. Amst . 1615 , folio . † Alexander King was Judge of the ...
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... writer , after stating " That he's likely to starve unless made a peat , " wishes to know " Whose peat he must be : " The President's † he cannot , because he has three . " And for my Lord Hatton , ‡ his sone now Sir John , " By all is ...
... writer , after stating " That he's likely to starve unless made a peat , " wishes to know " Whose peat he must be : " The President's † he cannot , because he has three . " And for my Lord Hatton , ‡ his sone now Sir John , " By all is ...
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Page 51 - One morn I missed him on the customed hill, Along the heath and near his favorite tree; Another came; nor yet beside the rill, Nor up the lawn, nor at the wood was he; "The next with dirges due in sad array Slow through the churchway path we saw him borne. Approach and read (for thou canst read) the lay, Graved on the stone beneath yon aged thorn.
Page 52 - He gained from heaven ('twas all he wished) a friend. No farther seek his merits to disclose, Or draw his frailties from their dread abode, (There they alike in trembling hope repose) The bosom of his father and his God.
Page 54 - Full many a gem of purest ray serene The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear : Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air. Some village- Hampden, that, with dauntless breast, The little tyrant of his fields withstood, Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood. Th...
Page 48 - The breezy call of incense-breathing morn, The swallow twittering from the straw-built shed, The cock's shrill clarion, or the echoing horn, No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed. For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn, Or busy housewife ply her evening care; No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share.
Page 50 - Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne. And shut the gates of mercy on mankind, The struggling pangs of conscious truth to hide, To quench the blushes of ingenuous shame, Or heap the shrine of Luxury and Pride With incense kindled at the Muse's flame.
Page 69 - Shall I bid him go, ; , and spare not?" Clo. "O no, no, no, no, you dare not." 121 Sir To. Out o' tune, sir: ye lie. Art any more than a steward? Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale? Clo. Yes, by Saint Anne, and ginger shall be hot i
Page 51 - There at the foot of yonder nodding beech That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high, His listless length at noontide would he stretch, And pore upon the brook that babbles by.
Page 48 - How long didst thou think that his silence was slumber ? When the wind waved his garment, how oft didst thou start '.' How many long days and long weeks didst thou number, Ere he faded before thee, the friend of thy heart?
Page 48 - I CLIMBED the dark brow of the mighty Helvellyn, Lakes and mountains beneath me gleamed misty and wide : All was still, save, by fits, when the eagle was yelling, And starting around me the echoes replied.