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Pagina ii
... thought , and nobler images , which show , By contrast , darker shades and stronger lights ; The Master paints in tones so real and low , You scent the very " kail by chimley cheek , " And " buttered bannocks " that on " girdle reek ...
... thought , and nobler images , which show , By contrast , darker shades and stronger lights ; The Master paints in tones so real and low , You scent the very " kail by chimley cheek , " And " buttered bannocks " that on " girdle reek ...
Pagina xiii
... thought . But one would prefer to see FERGUSSON have fame -- and much fame , as he deserves - by virtue of his own work , inde- pendently of how Burns esteemed it . And that he will have it that way yet - that he will come to his own ...
... thought . But one would prefer to see FERGUSSON have fame -- and much fame , as he deserves - by virtue of his own work , inde- pendently of how Burns esteemed it . And that he will have it that way yet - that he will come to his own ...
Pagina lix
... thought for his years how wide his range of knowledge - and with what magical effect did he conjure with Edinburgh's " brave metropolitan utterance . " He says himself , referring to his muse : -- " At times when she may lowse her pack ...
... thought for his years how wide his range of knowledge - and with what magical effect did he conjure with Edinburgh's " brave metropolitan utterance . " He says himself , referring to his muse : -- " At times when she may lowse her pack ...
Pagina lx
... thought and feeling . Two particular stanzas have already been quoted ; but when outside of these one lights on phrases like " divots theekit frae the weet and drift " — " wi ' butter'd bannocks now the girdle reeks - " the cheering ...
... thought and feeling . Two particular stanzas have already been quoted ; but when outside of these one lights on phrases like " divots theekit frae the weet and drift " — " wi ' butter'd bannocks now the girdle reeks - " the cheering ...
Pagina lxi
Robert Fergusson Robert Ford. Then , as to the ripeness of his thought , one is struck with admiration when lighting on such lines as— and- " Till death slip sleely on and gie the hindmost wound , " " The mind's aye cradled when the ...
Robert Fergusson Robert Ford. Then , as to the ripeness of his thought , one is struck with admiration when lighting on such lines as— and- " Till death slip sleely on and gie the hindmost wound , " " The mind's aye cradled when the ...
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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