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Pagina 17
... fancy , and gave a poetical impulse to his ge- nius but , it is believed , the first inspirations of his muse were poured forth in satirical cas- tigation of his instructors , and in the common- place trifles , such as a boy usually ...
... fancy , and gave a poetical impulse to his ge- nius but , it is believed , the first inspirations of his muse were poured forth in satirical cas- tigation of his instructors , and in the common- place trifles , such as a boy usually ...
Pagina 24
... fancy's creation , they are still too brilliant for the eye of a common poet . That Fergusson , in these circumstances , had the courage to think of such a subject for his poetry , is a strong proof of the ambition of his mind and the ...
... fancy's creation , they are still too brilliant for the eye of a common poet . That Fergusson , in these circumstances , had the courage to think of such a subject for his poetry , is a strong proof of the ambition of his mind and the ...
Pagina 31
... fancy , he returned quietly to his drudgery . This anecdote shows pretty distinctly his aversion to the settled employment to which his attention should have been directed , aud * « Tom Sommers is a gloomy man , " His soul is dark with ...
... fancy , he returned quietly to his drudgery . This anecdote shows pretty distinctly his aversion to the settled employment to which his attention should have been directed , aud * « Tom Sommers is a gloomy man , " His soul is dark with ...
Pagina 55
... voice of Eternal Vengeance speaking in wrath , and consigning him to irremediable perdition . Fergusson's religion , at this time , was the religion of a man in despair . His in- fidelity was a burst of fancy , and the melan- 55.
... voice of Eternal Vengeance speaking in wrath , and consigning him to irremediable perdition . Fergusson's religion , at this time , was the religion of a man in despair . His in- fidelity was a burst of fancy , and the melan- 55.
Pagina 56
With a Sketch of the Author's Life Robert Fergusson. fidelity was a burst of fancy , and the melan- choly effort of a freezing energy of reason , which enabled him to hope for peace in the gulph of annihilation , when that of eternal ...
With a Sketch of the Author's Life Robert Fergusson. fidelity was a burst of fancy , and the melan- choly effort of a freezing energy of reason , which enabled him to hope for peace in the gulph of annihilation , when that of eternal ...
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Pagina 116 - 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 250 - Mark it, Cesario; it is old and plain: 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 266 - For a' that life ahint can spare. The gowdspink, that sae lang has kend Thy happy sweets (his wonted friend), Her sad confinement ill can brook In some dark chamber's dowy nook ; Tho' Mary's hand his nebb supplies, Unkend to hunger's painfu...
Pagina 248 - He maunna care for being seen Before he sheath His body in a scabbard clean O' gude Braid Claith. For, gin he come wi...
Pagina 288 - And dim our dolefu' days wi' bairnly fear ; The mind's aye cradled when the grave is near. Yet thrift, industrious, bides her latest days, Tho' age her sair-dow'd front wi' runcles wave ; Yet frae the russet lap the spindle plays ; Her e'enin stent reels she as weel's the lave. On some feast-day the wee things, buskit braw, Shall heeze her heart up wi...
Pagina 247 - Wi' gude Braid Claith. On Sabbath-days the barber spark, Whan he has done wi' scrapin wark, Wi' siller broachie in his sark, Gangs trigly, faith ! Or to the Meadow, or the Park, In gude Braid Claith.
Pagina 320 - On einings cauld wi' glee we'd trudge To heat our shins in Johnny's lodge; The de'il ane thought his bum to budge Wi' siller on us : To claw het pints we'd never grudge O
Pagina 243 - HAPPY the man who, void of cares and strife, In silken or in leathern purse retains A Splendid Shilling. He nor hears with pain New oysters...
Pagina 198 - When you censure the age, Be cautious and sage, Lest the courtiers offended, should be ; If you mention vice or bribe, 'Tis so pat to all the tribe, Each cries — That was levelld at me.
Pagina 313 - I'd been there, How I wad trimm'd the bill o' fare ! For ne'er sic surly wight as he Had met wi' sic respect frae me. Mind ye what Sam,' the lying loun ! Has in his Dictionar laid down ? That aits in England are a feast To cow an' horse, an' sican beast, While in Scots ground this growth was common To gust the gab o