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Pagina lxi
... smiles , Kisses the air - cock o ' St. Giles ; " " Cauld blaws the nippin ' north wi ' angry sough , And showers his hailstanes frae the castle cleugh Owre the Greyfriars . " It needs only to be asked for FERGUSSON that he be read . So ...
... smiles , Kisses the air - cock o ' St. Giles ; " " Cauld blaws the nippin ' north wi ' angry sough , And showers his hailstanes frae the castle cleugh Owre the Greyfriars . " It needs only to be asked for FERGUSSON that he be read . So ...
Pagina 30
... smiles wha list , I'll ne'er envy your girnel's grist : For when fair freedom smiles nae mair , Care I for life ? Shame fa ' the hair ; A field o'ergrown wi ' rankest stubble , The essence of a paltry bubble ! CALLER WATER . WHEN father ...
... smiles wha list , I'll ne'er envy your girnel's grist : For when fair freedom smiles nae mair , Care I for life ? Shame fa ' the hair ; A field o'ergrown wi ' rankest stubble , The essence of a paltry bubble ! CALLER WATER . WHEN father ...
Pagina 83
... smiles Kisses the air - cock o ' St. Giles ; Rakin ' their een , the servant lasses Early begin their lies and clashes . Ilk tells her friend o ' saddest distress , That still she bruiks frae scoulin ' mistress ; And wi ' her joe , in ...
... smiles Kisses the air - cock o ' St. Giles ; Rakin ' their een , the servant lasses Early begin their lies and clashes . Ilk tells her friend o ' saddest distress , That still she bruiks frae scoulin ' mistress ; And wi ' her joe , in ...
Pagina 86
... smile serene . Though joy maist part Auld Reekie owns Eftsoons she kens sad sorrow's frowns . What group is yon sae dismal , grim , Wi ' horrid aspect , cleedin ' dim ? Says Death , " They're mine , a dowie crew , To me they'll quickly ...
... smile serene . Though joy maist part Auld Reekie owns Eftsoons she kens sad sorrow's frowns . What group is yon sae dismal , grim , Wi ' horrid aspect , cleedin ' dim ? Says Death , " They're mine , a dowie crew , To me they'll quickly ...
Pagina 128
... smiles , you'll tune the happy lay , While hills responsive waft your songs away . CORYDON . May plenteous crops your irksome labour crown , May hoodwink'd Fortune cease her envious frown ; May riches still increase with growing years ...
... smiles , you'll tune the happy lay , While hills responsive waft your songs away . CORYDON . May plenteous crops your irksome labour crown , May hoodwink'd Fortune cease her envious frown ; May riches still increase with growing years ...
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Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
A. B. Grosart aften Alexander Runciman Allan Ramsay amang Andrews Auld Reekie baith bauld beauty bell blaw blythe bonnie braw browster Burns caller canty cauld causey cheer chiel cottar crack David Steuart death dowie e'er Edinburgh edition fair fancy fouk frae gang gars glow'rs Grosart gude braid claith hame hauds heart ilka Ingle lads loun maun mony mourn Muse nae mair ne'er nett never night numbers o'er owre Perth poems poet poet's poortith portrait Precentor Printed Robert Fergusson Robin Gibb round Ruddiman Runciman sang says Scotland Scots Scottish shopies sigh siller simmer Sing farrel smiles song spring sweet thee thir days thole Thomas Ruddiman thou TIMANTHES trow tune unco verse wame weary weel weet Whase Whilk William Wilkie wirrikow
Populaire passages
Pagina 151 - 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 213 - Where be your gibes now ? your gambols ? your songs ? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table in a roar ? Not one now, to mock your own grinning?
Pagina 14 - 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 12 - Gude faith, he mauna fa' that! For a' that, an' a' that, Their dignities an' a' that, The pith o' sense, an' pride o' worth. Are higher rank than a' that. Then let us pray that come it may, As come it will for a' that, That sense and worth, o'er a' the earth. Shall bear the gree, an' a' that. For a
Pagina xi - CURSE on ungrateful man, that can be pleas'd, And yet can starve the author of the pleasure ! O thou, my elder brother in misfortune, By far my elder brother in the Muses...
Pagina 191 - 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 9 - HAPPY the man who, void of cares and strife, In silken or in leathern purse retains A Splendid Shilling.
Pagina 13 - While he draws breath, Till his four quarters are bedeckit Wi' gude Braid Claith. On Sabbath-days the barber spark, Whan he has done wi...
Pagina xlix - 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 59 - 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