The works of Allen Ramsay. With life of the author by G. Chalmers; an essay on his genius and writings by lord Woodhouselee, and appendix, Band 31851 |
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... auld Apelles Wal'd a ' the bonny maids of Greece : Thou needs nae mair but paint thysell , lass , To ding the painter and his piece . ON MR . DRUMMOND'S BEING APPOINTED A COMMISSIONER OF THE CUSTOMS . THE good are glad when merit meets ...
... auld Apelles Wal'd a ' the bonny maids of Greece : Thou needs nae mair but paint thysell , lass , To ding the painter and his piece . ON MR . DRUMMOND'S BEING APPOINTED A COMMISSIONER OF THE CUSTOMS . THE good are glad when merit meets ...
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... Auld Reekie's much - famed bard . In 1722 , Lieut . Hamilton published an abridgment , modernised , of Henry the Minstrel's Life of Wallace . It was , however , considered an injudicious undertaking , and brought him neither profit nor ...
... Auld Reekie's much - famed bard . In 1722 , Lieut . Hamilton published an abridgment , modernised , of Henry the Minstrel's Life of Wallace . It was , however , considered an injudicious undertaking , and brought him neither profit nor ...
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... auld farrant pauky pash , Nae man might ance buy me for cash In some respect ; Are they nae then confounded rash , That hangs poor Heck ? * * * Now honesty was aye my drift ; An innocent and harmless shift , A kail - pat lid gently to ...
... auld farrant pauky pash , Nae man might ance buy me for cash In some respect ; Are they nae then confounded rash , That hangs poor Heck ? * * * Now honesty was aye my drift ; An innocent and harmless shift , A kail - pat lid gently to ...
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... auld words gar me smile ; Thou's travell'd sure mony a mile Wi ' charge and cost , To learn them thus keep rank and file , And ken their post . For I man tell thee , honest Allie , ( I use the freedom so to call thee , ) I think them a ...
... auld words gar me smile ; Thou's travell'd sure mony a mile Wi ' charge and cost , To learn them thus keep rank and file , And ken their post . For I man tell thee , honest Allie , ( I use the freedom so to call thee , ) I think them a ...
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... auld man's pow ; And through thy creed , Be keeped frae the wirricow , After thou's dead , ANSWER III . EDINBURGH , Sep. 2 , 1719 . MY TRURSTY TROJAN , THY last oration orthodox , Thy innocent auld farren jokes , ( 1 ) All this verse is ...
... auld man's pow ; And through thy creed , Be keeped frae the wirricow , After thou's dead , ANSWER III . EDINBURGH , Sep. 2 , 1719 . MY TRURSTY TROJAN , THY last oration orthodox , Thy innocent auld farren jokes , ( 1 ) All this verse is ...
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Seite 221 - The water fa's, and maks a singand din : A pool breast-deep, beneath as clear as glass, Kisses with easy whirles the bord'ring grass. We'll end our washing while the morning's cool ; And when the day grows het, we'll to the pool, There wash oursells ; 'tis healthfu' now in May, And sweetly cauler on sae warm a day.
Seite 221 - Or this other, a perfect domestic picture ? — " While Peggy laces up her bosom fair, Wi' a blue snood Jenny binds up her hair ; Glaud by a morning ingle takes a beek, The rising sun shines motty through the reek ; .A pipe his mouth, the lasses please his een, And now and then a joke maun intervene.
Seite 203 - ... and closes on each side of the way, wherein are gentlemen's houses, much fairer than the buildings in the High Street, for in the High Street...
Seite 78 - I own for me I never heard a better jest. Pope well describ'd an ombre game, And king revenging captive queen ; He merits, but had won more fame, If author of your
Seite 328 - Bards wrote, we had not yet made Use of imported Trimming upon our Cloaths, nor of foreign Embroidery in our Writings. Their Poetry is the Product of their own Country, not pilfered and spoiled in the Transportation from abroad : Their Images are native, and their Landskips domestick ; copied from those Fields and Meadows we every Day behold.
Seite 327 - When these good old Bards wrote, we had not yet made use of imported trimming upon our cloaths, nor of foreign embroidery in our writings.
Seite 328 - The morning rises (in the Poet's description) as she does in the Scottish horizon. We are not carried to Greece or Italy for a shade, a stream, or a breeze. The groves rise in our own valleys; the rivers flow from our own fountains, and the winds blow upon our own hills.
Seite 328 - Description) as she does in the Scottish Horizon. We are not carried to Greece or Italy for a Shade, a Stream or a Breeze. The Groves rise in our own Valleys; the Rivers flow from our own Fountains, and the Winds blow upon our own Hills. I find not Fault with those Things, as they are in Greece or Italy. But with a Northern Poet for fetching his Materials from these Places, in a Poem, of which his own Country is the Scene; as our Hymners to the Spring and Makers of Pastorals frequently do.
Seite 328 - There is nothing can be heard more silly than one's expressing his Ignorance of his native Language ; yet such there are, who can vaunt of acquiring a tolerable Perfection in the French or Italian Tongues, if they have been a Forthnight in Paris or a Month in Rome: But shew them the most elegant Thoughts in a Scots Dress, they as disdainfully as stupidly condemn it as barbarous.
Seite 193 - Gae spread my fame, And fix me an immortal name ; Ages to come shall thee revive, And gar thee with new honours live. The future critics, I foresee. Shall have their notes on notes on thee ; The wits unborn shall beauties find, That never entered in my mind.