Works: With a Sketch of the Author's Life1807 - 364 Seiten |
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... kind , it is diffi- cult , perhaps , to select a fitter subject than ROBERT FERGUSSON . His natural talents were of the highest order ; his acquirements were considerable ; and he lived in an age , when the possession of such qualities ...
... kind , it is diffi- cult , perhaps , to select a fitter subject than ROBERT FERGUSSON . His natural talents were of the highest order ; his acquirements were considerable ; and he lived in an age , when the possession of such qualities ...
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... kind of study , he equal- led any , and surpassed numbers of his class- fellows . While his school studies were thus interrupt- ed by ill health , he is said to have acquired a taste for books , which he was accustomed to indulge . It ...
... kind of study , he equal- led any , and surpassed numbers of his class- fellows . While his school studies were thus interrupt- ed by ill health , he is said to have acquired a taste for books , which he was accustomed to indulge . It ...
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... kind of exploits : Others of a more interesting and ho nourable kind seemed at least to have been the objects of contemplation . Óne , in particular , which , in my apprehension , throws consider- able light upon his character and ...
... kind of exploits : Others of a more interesting and ho nourable kind seemed at least to have been the objects of contemplation . Óne , in particular , which , in my apprehension , throws consider- able light upon his character and ...
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... kind , which excite the most lively interest in a story , -now proudly moving on the highest tide of success , —now deeply overwhelmed by misfortune . His fall too was of that tragical cast , which excites every sympathy of our hearts ...
... kind , which excite the most lively interest in a story , -now proudly moving on the highest tide of success , —now deeply overwhelmed by misfortune . His fall too was of that tragical cast , which excites every sympathy of our hearts ...
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... kind of civility which was expressed by admitting him to his table , and by the com- plimental cant of ceremonious hospitality . But even this humble kind of friendship , ( and humble it must have appeared in the eyes of Robert ...
... kind of civility which was expressed by admitting him to his table , and by the com- plimental cant of ceremonious hospitality . But even this humble kind of friendship , ( and humble it must have appeared in the eyes of Robert ...
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aften amang AMYNTAS Auld Reikie baith bauld beauty blaw blithe bonny Braid Claith braw breeze browster canty cauld cauler cheer chiel CORYDON cou'd DAMON death dowie e'er Edina's Edinburgh fair Fancy fouk frae friends gales genius GEORDIE gloom glowr green groves gude hail hame hath heart ilka Invermay lads landlord loun lyre maun melody mind mirth mony morn mourn Muse nae mair Naiads ne'er never night numbers o'er OLIVER & CO owre plain poortith reign Robert Fergusson round scene Scotland shade shepherd shore shou'd sigh siller Simmer sing smiles song spring St Andrews strain streams swain sweet thee thou thro TIMANTHES tongue trow Twas unco virtue voice wame weel weet Whan Whare Whase wing wirrikow woes wonted youth
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Seite 116 - O ! who can hold a fire in his hand By thinking on the frosty Caucasus? Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite By bare imagination of a feast?
Seite 250 - Mark it, Cesario; it is old and plain: The spinsters and the knitters in the sun, And the free maids that weave their thread with bones, Do use to chant it ; it is silly sooth, And dallies with the innocence of love, Like the old age.
Seite 266 - For a' that life ahint can spare. The gowdspink, that sae lang has kend Thy happy sweets (his wonted friend), Her sad confinement ill can brook In some dark chamber's dowy nook ; Tho' Mary's hand his nebb supplies, Unkend to hunger's painfu...
Seite 248 - He maunna care for being seen Before he sheath His body in a scabbard clean O' gude Braid Claith. For, gin he come wi...
Seite 288 - And dim our dolefu' days wi' bairnly fear ; The mind's aye cradled when the grave is near. Yet thrift, industrious, bides her latest days, Tho' age her sair-dow'd front wi' runcles wave ; Yet frae the russet lap the spindle plays ; Her e'enin stent reels she as weel's the lave. On some feast-day the wee things, buskit braw, Shall heeze her heart up wi...
Seite 247 - Wi' gude Braid Claith. On Sabbath-days the barber spark, Whan he has done wi' scrapin wark, Wi' siller broachie in his sark, Gangs trigly, faith ! Or to the Meadow, or the Park, In gude Braid Claith.
Seite 320 - On einings cauld wi' glee we'd trudge To heat our shins in Johnny's lodge; The de'il ane thought his bum to budge Wi' siller on us : To claw het pints we'd never grudge O
Seite 243 - HAPPY the man who, void of cares and strife, In silken or in leathern purse retains A Splendid Shilling. He nor hears with pain New oysters...
Seite 198 - When you censure the age, Be cautious and sage, Lest the courtiers offended, should be ; If you mention vice or bribe, 'Tis so pat to all the tribe, Each cries — That was levelld at me.
Seite 313 - I'd been there, How I wad trimm'd the bill o' fare ! For ne'er sic surly wight as he Had met wi' sic respect frae me. Mind ye what Sam,' the lying loun ! Has in his Dictionar laid down ? That aits in England are a feast To cow an' horse, an' sican beast, While in Scots ground this growth was common To gust the gab o