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... ne'er be known to bow . " The mighty thunderer on his sapphire throne , In mercy's robes attir'd , heard the sweet voice Of female woe , soft as the moving song Of Philomela ' midst the evening shades ; And thus returned an answer to ...
... ne'er be known to bow . " The mighty thunderer on his sapphire throne , In mercy's robes attir'd , heard the sweet voice Of female woe , soft as the moving song Of Philomela ' midst the evening shades ; And thus returned an answer to ...
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... near thy flowing streams , Ne'er shall stern Mars , in iron car , Drive his proud coursers to the war ; But fairy forms shall strew around Their olives on the peaceful ground ; And turtles join the warbling throng , To usher in the ...
... near thy flowing streams , Ne'er shall stern Mars , in iron car , Drive his proud coursers to the war ; But fairy forms shall strew around Their olives on the peaceful ground ; And turtles join the warbling throng , To usher in the ...
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... look and falling tear . In broken cadence from thy tongue Oft have we heard the mournful song ; Oft have we view'd the loaded bier Bedewed with Pity's softest tear . Her sighs and tears were ne'er denied , When innocence 88 Ode to Pity.
... look and falling tear . In broken cadence from thy tongue Oft have we heard the mournful song ; Oft have we view'd the loaded bier Bedewed with Pity's softest tear . Her sighs and tears were ne'er denied , When innocence 88 Ode to Pity.
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With a Sketch of the Author's Life Robert Fergusson. Her sighs and tears were ne'er denied , When innocence and ... er , Their name , their memory , no more , Who love and innocence despised , And every virtue sacrificed . Here Pity , as ...
With a Sketch of the Author's Life Robert Fergusson. Her sighs and tears were ne'er denied , When innocence and ... er , Their name , their memory , no more , Who love and innocence despised , And every virtue sacrificed . Here Pity , as ...
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... ne'er can heal his peace , when broke . His fears arise , he sighs again For solitude on rural plain ; Even there his wishes all convene To bear him to 2 91.
... ne'er can heal his peace , when broke . His fears arise , he sighs again For solitude on rural plain ; Even there his wishes all convene To bear him to 2 91.
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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