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 18
... reigns ; There Scotia's sons in odious light appear , Tho ' we for them have wav'd the hostile spear ; For them my sire , enwrapp'd in curdled gore , Breath'd his last moments on a foreign shore . Tim . Six lunar months , my friend ...
... reigns ; There Scotia's sons in odious light appear , Tho ' we for them have wav'd the hostile spear ; For them my sire , enwrapp'd in curdled gore , Breath'd his last moments on a foreign shore . Tim . Six lunar months , my friend ...
Pagina 21
... Am . What awful silence reigns throughout the shade , The peaceful olive bends his drooping head ; No sound is heard o'er all the gloomy maze , Wide o'er the deep the fiery meteors blaze . Flor . The west yet ting'd with SOL's efful- gent.
... Am . What awful silence reigns throughout the shade , The peaceful olive bends his drooping head ; No sound is heard o'er all the gloomy maze , Wide o'er the deep the fiery meteors blaze . Flor . The west yet ting'd with SOL's efful- gent.
Pagina 43
... reigns , " Guarding secure the peasant's humble bed ; " Envy is banish'd from the happy plains , " And Defamation's busy tongue is laid . " Health and Contentment usher in the morn , " With joeund smiles they cheer the rural swain ...
... reigns , " Guarding secure the peasant's humble bed ; " Envy is banish'd from the happy plains , " And Defamation's busy tongue is laid . " Health and Contentment usher in the morn , " With joeund smiles they cheer the rural swain ...
Pagina 45
... reign , All thy ideal fairy train , To animate the lifeless clay , And bear my sorrows hence away . Hence gloomy featur'd black Despair , With all thy frantic furies fly , Nor rend my breast with gnawing care , For Hope in lively garb ...
... reign , All thy ideal fairy train , To animate the lifeless clay , And bear my sorrows hence away . Hence gloomy featur'd black Despair , With all thy frantic furies fly , Nor rend my breast with gnawing care , For Hope in lively garb ...
Pagina 55
... reigns ; And woo them to her midnight bowers , Among the fragrant dew - clad flowers , Where ev'ry rock , and hill , and dale , With echoes greet the nightingale , Whose pleasing , soft , pathetic tongue , To kind condolence turns the ...
... reigns ; And woo them to her midnight bowers , Among the fragrant dew - clad flowers , Where ev'ry rock , and hill , and dale , With echoes greet the nightingale , Whose pleasing , soft , pathetic tongue , To kind condolence turns the ...
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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...