The Works of Robert Fergusson: To which is Prefixed, a Sketch of the Author's LifeS.A. & H. Oddy, 1807 - 364 Seiten |
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... poor- destitute - friendless : She was a proper object of filial reverence ; but his advancement in the world , could not be materially promoted by her exertions . He had , however , an uncle who lived near Aberdeen , in affluent ...
... poor- destitute - friendless : She was a proper object of filial reverence ; but his advancement in the world , could not be materially promoted by her exertions . He had , however , an uncle who lived near Aberdeen , in affluent ...
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... poor boy was constrained to accept , in order to avoid the more terrible alternatives of beg- ging , or of perishing for want . After a fatiguing journey on foot from Aber- deen , which he had accomplished under the 66 united tortures ...
... poor boy was constrained to accept , in order to avoid the more terrible alternatives of beg- ging , or of perishing for want . After a fatiguing journey on foot from Aber- deen , which he had accomplished under the 66 united tortures ...
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... poor . This is like the logic of a fanatical methodist , or of a recluse ; but it is not the language of a man who has looked into the world , and taken an accurate and a liberal view of his fellow men . Poverty was Robert Fergusson's ...
... poor . This is like the logic of a fanatical methodist , or of a recluse ; but it is not the language of a man who has looked into the world , and taken an accurate and a liberal view of his fellow men . Poverty was Robert Fergusson's ...
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... poor , ODE TO DISAPPOINTMENT . THOU joyless fiend ! life's constant foe ; Malignant source of care and woe , Pleasure's abhorred controul ; Her gayest haunts for ever nigh ; Stern mistress of 92 Ode to Disappointment.
... poor , ODE TO DISAPPOINTMENT . THOU joyless fiend ! life's constant foe ; Malignant source of care and woe , Pleasure's abhorred controul ; Her gayest haunts for ever nigh ; Stern mistress of 92 Ode to Disappointment.
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... , that for wealth I pine , Tho ' all the fates to make me poor combine : Tay , bounding o'er its banks with awful sway , Bore all my corns and all my flocks away .. Of Jove's dread precepts did I e'er complain ? E'er 103.
... , that for wealth I pine , Tho ' all the fates to make me poor combine : Tay , bounding o'er its banks with awful sway , Bore all my corns and all my flocks away .. Of Jove's dread precepts did I e'er complain ? E'er 103.
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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 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 - 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 66 - 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 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
Seite 132 - O great god Pan, to thee Thus do we sing ! Thou that keep'st us chaste and free As the young spring ; Ever be thy honour spoke, From that place the Morn is broke To that place Day doth unyoke...
Seite 243 - HAPPY the man who, void of cares and strife, In silken or in leathern purse retains A Splendid Shilling.
Seite 288 - O mock na this, my friends ! but rather mourn, Ye in life's brawest spring wi' reason clear ; Wi' eild our idle fancies a' return, And dim our dolefu' days wi' bairnly fear ; The mind's ay cradled whan the grave is near.