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 iv
... song were very great in a double capacity . When seated with some select companions over a bowl , his wit flashed like lightning , struck the hearers irresisibly , and set the table in a roar . These qualifications were his ruin , they ...
... song were very great in a double capacity . When seated with some select companions over a bowl , his wit flashed like lightning , struck the hearers irresisibly , and set the table in a roar . These qualifications were his ruin , they ...
Pagina viii
... Songs press the Beggar's Opera Character of a Friend Epilogue , spoken by Mr. Wilson in the cha- racter of an Edinburgh Buck Epitaph on General Wolfe Epigram on the numerous Epitaphs on Gene- ral Wolfe On seeing Stanzas addressed to Mrs ...
... Songs press the Beggar's Opera Character of a Friend Epilogue , spoken by Mr. Wilson in the cha- racter of an Edinburgh Buck Epitaph on General Wolfe Epigram on the numerous Epitaphs on Gene- ral Wolfe On seeing Stanzas addressed to Mrs ...
Pagina x
... Song - Epigram on a Lawyer's desiring one of the Tribe to look with respect to a Gib- bet - On the Author's intention of going to sea 254 259 264 271 275 289 294 298 303 306 309 311 313 314 315 ib . 316 Epigram written extempore on a ...
... Song - Epigram on a Lawyer's desiring one of the Tribe to look with respect to a Gib- bet - On the Author's intention of going to sea 254 259 264 271 275 289 294 298 303 306 309 311 313 314 315 ib . 316 Epigram written extempore on a ...
Pagina 13
... we our flocks , then , to the mountain's brow , Where junipers and thorny brambles grow ; Where founts of water ' midst the daisies spring , And soaring larks and tuneful linnets sing ; B Your pleasing song shall teach our flocks to stray ,
... we our flocks , then , to the mountain's brow , Where junipers and thorny brambles grow ; Where founts of water ' midst the daisies spring , And soaring larks and tuneful linnets sing ; B Your pleasing song shall teach our flocks to stray ,
Pagina 14
Robert Fergusson. Your pleasing song shall teach our flocks to stray , While sounding echoes smoothe the sylvan lay . Alex . " Tis thine to sing the graces of the morn , The zephyr trembling o'er the rip'ning corn ; ' Tis thine with ease ...
Robert Fergusson. Your pleasing song shall teach our flocks to stray , While sounding echoes smoothe the sylvan lay . Alex . " Tis thine to sing the graces of the morn , The zephyr trembling o'er the rip'ning corn ; ' Tis thine with ease ...
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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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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...