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... shores , Resounding to the Mermaid's song , Gladly emit their limpid stores , And bid them smoothly sail along To Neptune's empire , and with him to roll Round the revolving sphere from pole to pole , To guard Britannia from her envious ...
... shores , Resounding to the Mermaid's song , Gladly emit their limpid stores , And bid them smoothly sail along To Neptune's empire , and with him to roll Round the revolving sphere from pole to pole , To guard Britannia from her envious ...
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... shores , And to the southern airy mountains bring Their sweet enchantment and their magic powers . Each nymph her favourite willow takes ; The earth with fev'rous tremor shakes ; The stagnant lakes obey their call ; Streams o'er the ...
... shores , And to the southern airy mountains bring Their sweet enchantment and their magic powers . Each nymph her favourite willow takes ; The earth with fev'rous tremor shakes ; The stagnant lakes obey their call ; Streams o'er the ...
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... ; The sounding lyre celestial muses string ; The choiring songsters in the groves rejoice . Each fount its crystal fluids pours , Which from surrounding mountains flow ; The river bathes its verdant shores ; Cool o'er the 85.
... ; The sounding lyre celestial muses string ; The choiring songsters in the groves rejoice . Each fount its crystal fluids pours , Which from surrounding mountains flow ; The river bathes its verdant shores ; Cool o'er the 85.
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With a Sketch of the Author's Life Robert Fergusson. The river bathes its verdant shores ; Cool o'er the surf the breezes blow . Let England's sons extol their gardens fair ; Scotland may freely boast her generous streams ; Their soil ...
With a Sketch of the Author's Life Robert Fergusson. The river bathes its verdant shores ; Cool o'er the surf the breezes blow . Let England's sons extol their gardens fair ; Scotland may freely boast her generous streams ; Their soil ...
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... shore . TIMANTHES . Six lunar months , my friend , will soon expire , And she return to crown your fond desire . For her , oh rack not your desponding mind ! In Delia's breast a generous flame's confined , That burns for Corydon , whose ...
... shore . TIMANTHES . Six lunar months , my friend , will soon expire , And she return to crown your fond desire . For her , oh rack not your desponding mind ! In Delia's breast a generous flame's confined , That burns for Corydon , whose ...
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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