The Caledonian Muse: A Chronological Selection of Scotish Poetry from the Earliest TimesJoseph Ritson Printed 1785, and now first pub. by R. Triphook, 1821 - 232 Seiten |
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... these three leid this ane ? Bot counfal of them all . I led an hunder myne alane , I grant , quod Wifdom , ze haif led , But I wald fpeir how mony sped , Or furdert bot a fall : : But owther few , or nane I trow , 739 735 Experience can ...
... these three leid this ane ? Bot counfal of them all . I led an hunder myne alane , I grant , quod Wifdom , ze haif led , But I wald fpeir how mony sped , Or furdert bot a fall : : But owther few , or nane I trow , 739 735 Experience can ...
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... these parts , Gif they wrocht not all for the best Of me with upricht hearts : Our chiftain , then liftan His fcepter , did enjoyn 1475 1480 Nae moir thair uproir there , And fae their ftryf was done . Rebuiking Dreid and Danger fair ...
... these parts , Gif they wrocht not all for the best Of me with upricht hearts : Our chiftain , then liftan His fcepter , did enjoyn 1475 1480 Nae moir thair uproir there , And fae their ftryf was done . Rebuiking Dreid and Danger fair ...
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... these pines , ALEXIS , Sweet hermitreffe , fhe did all alone repaire ; Here did fhe spread the treasure of her hairé , More rich than that brought from the Colchian mines ; Here fate fhe by these musket eglantines , The happy flow'rs ...
... these pines , ALEXIS , Sweet hermitreffe , fhe did all alone repaire ; Here did fhe spread the treasure of her hairé , More rich than that brought from the Colchian mines ; Here fate fhe by these musket eglantines , The happy flow'rs ...
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... these lands Where Briton's royal fleet doth ride Which still commands . Thefe doughty actions frae his pen , Our age , and these to come , fhall ken , How ftubborn navies did contend 16 20 Upon the waves , How free - born Britons faught ...
... these lands Where Briton's royal fleet doth ride Which still commands . Thefe doughty actions frae his pen , Our age , and these to come , fhall ken , How ftubborn navies did contend 16 20 Upon the waves , How free - born Britons faught ...
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... These come too late ; And only mock whom they were meant to honour . 150 Surely there's not a dungeon - flave , that's bury'd In the highway , unfhrouded and uncoffin'd , But lies as foft , and fleeps as found as he Sorry pre - eminence ...
... These come too late ; And only mock whom they were meant to honour . 150 Surely there's not a dungeon - flave , that's bury'd In the highway , unfhrouded and uncoffin'd , But lies as foft , and fleeps as found as he Sorry pre - eminence ...
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Seite 144 - Strew'd with death's spoils, the spoils of animals, Savage and tame, and full of dead men's bones? The very turf on which we tread once liv'd ; And we that live must lend our carcasses To cover our own offspring : in their turns They too must cover theirs.
Seite 146 - Well do I know thee by thy trusty yew, Cheerless, unsocial plant ; that loves to dwell 'Midst skulls and coffins, epitaphs and worms: Where light-heel'd ghosts, and visionary shades, Beneath the wan cold moon (as fame reports) Embodied, thick, perform their mystic rounds. No other merriment, dull tree, is thine.
Seite 104 - But, Sacred Saviour, with thy words I woo Thee to forgive, and not be bitter to Such as thou know'st do not know what they do.
Seite 157 - Now, Spring returns ; but not to me returns The vernal joy my better years have known ; Dim in my breast life's dying taper burns, And all the joys of life with health are flown.
Seite 158 - Farewell, ye blooming fields ! ye cheerful plains ! Enough for me the church-yard's lonely mound, Where Melancholy with still Silence reigns, And the rank grass waves o'er the cheerless ground.
Seite 155 - Wild shrieks have issued from the hollow tombs : Dead men have come again, and walk'd about ; And the great bell has toll'd, unrung, untouch'd. (Such tales their cheer at wake or gossiping, When it draws near to witching time of night...
Seite 152 - Sure the last end Of the good man is peace. How calm his exit ! Night-dews fall not more gently to the ground, Nor weary worn-out winds expire so soft.
Seite 146 - midst the wreck of things which were; There lie interr'd the more illustrious dead. The wind is up: hark ! how it howls ! Methinks Till now, I never heard a sound so dreary...
Seite 158 - I see the muddy wave, the dreary shore, The sluggish streams that slowly creep below, Which mortals visit, and return no more. Farewell, ye blooming fields ! ye cheerful plains!
Seite 104 - Is forced in pilgrimage to seek a tomb. Great Britain's heir is forced into France, Whilst on his father's head his foes advance : Poor child ! he weeps out his inheritance.