The Poems of Robert Fergusson: in Two Parts. To which is Prefixed, the Life of the Author, and a Sketch of His Writings; with a Copious Glossary Annexed, Volume 1Benjamin Chapman. A. Small, printer., 1815 - 331 pagina's |
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Pagina 47
Robert Fergusson. Depriv'd of thee must banners fall ; But where a living Hope is found , The legions shout at dangers call , And vict❜ries are triumphant crown'd . Come then , Bright Hope ! in smiles array'd , Revive us by thy quick ...
Robert Fergusson. Depriv'd of thee must banners fall ; But where a living Hope is found , The legions shout at dangers call , And vict❜ries are triumphant crown'd . Come then , Bright Hope ! in smiles array'd , Revive us by thy quick ...
Pagina 52
... living streams descend and groves arise . AIR , GILDEROY , I. As sable clouds at early day Oft dim the shining skies , So gloomy thoughts create dismay , And lustre leaves her eyes . II . " Ye powers ! are Scotia's ample fields 52.
... living streams descend and groves arise . AIR , GILDEROY , I. As sable clouds at early day Oft dim the shining skies , So gloomy thoughts create dismay , And lustre leaves her eyes . II . " Ye powers ! are Scotia's ample fields 52.
Pagina 130
... we dwell and taste thy joys , Where Sorrow reigns not , and where ev'ry gale Is fraught with fullness , blest with living hope , That fears no canker from the year's - decay . то SIR JOHN FIELDING , On His Attempt to Suppress 130.
... we dwell and taste thy joys , Where Sorrow reigns not , and where ev'ry gale Is fraught with fullness , blest with living hope , That fears no canker from the year's - decay . то SIR JOHN FIELDING , On His Attempt to Suppress 130.
Pagina 133
... living with your forty pound . ' Twas Woman first that snatch'd the luring bait , The tempter taught her to transgress and eat ; Tho ' wrong the deed , her quick compunction told , She banish'd ADAM from an age of gold . When women now ...
... living with your forty pound . ' Twas Woman first that snatch'd the luring bait , The tempter taught her to transgress and eat ; Tho ' wrong the deed , her quick compunction told , She banish'd ADAM from an age of gold . When women now ...
Pagina 197
... ' an ' heartsome owr the dews , Fu ' vogie , an ' fu ' blythe to crap The winsome flow'rs frae Nature's lap , Twining her living garlands there , That lyart Time can ne'er impair . R 2 ON SEEING A BUTTERFLY IN THE STREET . DAFT gowk 197.
... ' an ' heartsome owr the dews , Fu ' vogie , an ' fu ' blythe to crap The winsome flow'rs frae Nature's lap , Twining her living garlands there , That lyart Time can ne'er impair . R 2 ON SEEING A BUTTERFLY IN THE STREET . DAFT gowk 197.
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The Poems of Robert Fergusson: in Two Parts. To which is Prefixed ..., Volume 1 Robert Fergusson Volledige weergave - 1815 |
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Populaire passages
Pagina 62 - 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?
Pagina 186 - 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.
Pagina 194 - Ferguson, whose irregularities sometimes led him into unpleasant rencontres with these military conservators of public order, and who mentions them so often that he may be termed their poet...
Pagina 226 - At night, in calmest slumbers dose fu' sound ; Nor doctor need their weary life to spae, Nor drogs their noddle and their sense confound, Till death slip sleely on, and gie the hindmost wound.
Pagina iv - 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.
Pagina 205 - A cauler burn o' siller sheen, Ran cannily out-owre the green ; And whan our gutcher's drouth had been To bide right sair, He loutit down, and drank bedeen A dainty skair. His bairns had a', before the flood, A langer tack o* flesh and blood ; • * And on mair pithy shanks they stood Than Noah's line, Wha still hae been a feckless brood, Wi
Pagina 179 - HAPPY the man who, void of cares and strife, In silken or in leathern purse retains A Splendid Shilling.
Pagina 100 - 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...
Pagina 288 - Wi' thee but wi' a dowy heart; Aft frae the Fifan coast I've seen Thee tow'ring on thy summit green, So glowr the saints when first is given A fav'rite keek o...
Pagina 267 - That void our test'ments, and can freely gie Sic will and scoup to the ordain'd trustee, That he may tir our stateliest riggins bare, Nor acres, houses, woods, nor fishins spare, Till he can lend the stoitering state a lift Wi...