The poetical works of Robert Fergusson, with biogr intr., notes and glossary by R. Ford1773 |
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... fair copy of his academical lectures . " That FERGUSSON would have read the lectures to the class , if he got the chance , there need , of course , be little doubt . His relish for practical joking was too keen to have allowed him to ...
... fair copy of his academical lectures . " That FERGUSSON would have read the lectures to the class , if he got the chance , there need , of course , be little doubt . His relish for practical joking was too keen to have allowed him to ...
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... Fair , " and the " Rising " and " Sitting of the Session , " there are powers of humorous description exhibited which stamp their author as a poet of superior genius , even ( as Chambers says ) if the ner- vous sense of his " Braid ...
... Fair , " and the " Rising " and " Sitting of the Session , " there are powers of humorous description exhibited which stamp their author as a poet of superior genius , even ( as Chambers says ) if the ner- vous sense of his " Braid ...
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... fair brown hair , with a long massive curl along each side of the head , and terminating in a queue , dressed with a black silk riband . His dress was never very good , but often much faded , and the white thread stockings , which he ...
... fair brown hair , with a long massive curl along each side of the head , and terminating in a queue , dressed with a black silk riband . His dress was never very good , but often much faded , and the white thread stockings , which he ...
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... fair , but rather pale . His eyes full , black , and piercing . His nose long , his lips thin , his teeth well set and white . His neck long and well proportioned . His shoulders narrow and his limbs long , but more sinewy than fleshy ...
... fair , but rather pale . His eyes full , black , and piercing . His nose long , his lips thin , his teeth well set and white . His neck long and well proportioned . His shoulders narrow and his limbs long , but more sinewy than fleshy ...
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... Fair was suggested by " Leith Races . " The measure is again the same - they open not unlike , and the main idea in each bears striking features of relationship . Compare these two verses : - ( Burns . ) My name is Fun - your cronie ...
... Fair was suggested by " Leith Races . " The measure is again the same - they open not unlike , and the main idea in each bears striking features of relationship . Compare these two verses : - ( Burns . ) My name is Fun - your cronie ...
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Seite 151 - 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 213 - Where be your gibes now ? your gambols ? your songs ? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table in a roar ? Not one now, to mock your own grinning?
Seite 14 - 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 12 - Gude faith, he mauna fa' that! For a' that, an' a' that, Their dignities an' a' that, The pith o' sense, an' pride o' worth. Are higher rank than a' that. Then let us pray that come it may, As come it will for a' that, That sense and worth, o'er a' the earth. Shall bear the gree, an' a' that. For a
Seite xi - CURSE on ungrateful man, that can be pleas'd, And yet can starve the author of the pleasure ! O thou, my elder brother in misfortune, By far my elder brother in the Muses...
Seite 191 - 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 9 - HAPPY the man who, void of cares and strife, In silken or in leathern purse retains A Splendid Shilling.
Seite 13 - While he draws breath, Till his four quarters are bedeckit Wi' gude Braid Claith. On Sabbath-days the barber spark, Whan he has done wi...
Seite xlix - No sculptured marble here, nor pompous lay, ' No storied urn nor animated bust ;' This simple stone directs pale Scotia's way To pour her sorrows o'er her poet's dust.
Seite 59 - 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