The Grampians Desolate: A PoemJohn Moir, 1804 - 316 pagina's |
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Pagina 5
... o'er each trembling string , Next , in melodious measures , gladly sing Those wrongs redress'd : Thy ancient race restor❜d , In bonds of friendship firm , with one accord ( The General Weal kept steadily in view ) , The paths of ...
... o'er each trembling string , Next , in melodious measures , gladly sing Those wrongs redress'd : Thy ancient race restor❜d , In bonds of friendship firm , with one accord ( The General Weal kept steadily in view ) , The paths of ...
Pagina 6
... o'er all the altered scene , Where thy renown'd fore - fathers in the chase Were wont to speed . How desolate the place Where erst the hall resounded in high joy ; Where innocently gay thou didst employ The swift - wing'd moments of ...
... o'er all the altered scene , Where thy renown'd fore - fathers in the chase Were wont to speed . How desolate the place Where erst the hall resounded in high joy ; Where innocently gay thou didst employ The swift - wing'd moments of ...
Pagina 13
... ) Be not too rash - abide the coming day , When all your grievances shall fade away ; As baneful weeds , obnoxious , cease to grow , When herbs salubrious in due season blow , Diffusing fragrance o'er the cultured field , An earnest of 13.
... ) Be not too rash - abide the coming day , When all your grievances shall fade away ; As baneful weeds , obnoxious , cease to grow , When herbs salubrious in due season blow , Diffusing fragrance o'er the cultured field , An earnest of 13.
Pagina 14
A Poem Alexander Campbell. Diffusing fragrance o'er the cultured field , An earnest of the fruits anon they yield . -That day's at hand . With calm endurance still Support with dignity the present ill , As rocks amid the storm serenely ...
A Poem Alexander Campbell. Diffusing fragrance o'er the cultured field , An earnest of the fruits anon they yield . -That day's at hand . With calm endurance still Support with dignity the present ill , As rocks amid the storm serenely ...
Pagina 17
... O'er whom MALVINA drop'd the tender tear , While OSSIAN , aged , blind , whose tresses grey Sigh'd on the breeze responsive to his lay , Sang FINGAL's deeds in arms , -TEMORA's wars , And as he swept the strings diplay'd his scars ...
... O'er whom MALVINA drop'd the tender tear , While OSSIAN , aged , blind , whose tresses grey Sigh'd on the breeze responsive to his lay , Sang FINGAL's deeds in arms , -TEMORA's wars , And as he swept the strings diplay'd his scars ...
Overige edities - Alles bekijken
Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
agus alien breed ancient Argyleshire arms ascends bagpipe bard beam brave braxy Britain Caledonian Canal called chace chief chieftains circumstances cottars Crait crofters cultivated dance dawn deep distant districts dread emigration farmers farms fleecy flocks Gael Gaelic gale glen gloom Grampian hills Grampian mountains Grampians and Western GRAMPIANS DESOLATE hand heath heaves Hebrides Hebridian hence herds highland hoary industry inhabitants Ireland joys keen labour lease live-stock Lochaber Malcolm means mild mountains native breed o'er OSSIAN pasture peace Perthshire plough poor possessions race rack-rent rage reigns rent respecting roam roar rocks roe i loe round rural economy says Scot Scotland Scottish serene sheep Sheep-store shepherd shore smiles song soon soul sound spread store-farm storm swains sweep sweet tenants thro tion toil vale Vide Waste Lands Western Islands Western Isles wild wind winter
Populaire passages
Pagina 258 - And it came to pass as they came, when David was returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, that the women came out of all the cities of Israel, singing and dancing, to meet king Saul, with tabrets, with joy, and with instruments of music. And the women answered one another as they played, and said, Saul hath slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands.
Pagina 259 - The head of John the Baptist. 25 And she came in straightway with haste unto the king, and asked, saying, I will that thou give me by and by in a charger the head of John the Baptist.
Pagina 296 - I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill ; but time and chance happeneth to them all.
Pagina 296 - VANITY of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity. What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun ? One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh : but the earth abideth for ever.
Pagina 259 - And when the daughter of the said Herodias came in, and danced, and pleased Herod and them that sat with him, the king said unto the damsel, Ask of me whatsoever thou wilt, and I will give it thee.
Pagina 296 - A few years ago, the herring fishery employed all Grub Street; it was the topic in every coffee-house, and the burden of every ballad. We were to drag up oceans of gold from the bottom of the sea; we were to supply all Europe with herrings upon our own terms.
Pagina 1 - Thus every good his native wilds impart, Imprints the patriot passion on his heart; And e'en those ills, that round his mansion rise, Enhance the bliss his scanty fund supplies. Dear is that shed to which his soul conforms, And dear that hill which lifts him to the storms; And as a child, when scaring sounds molest, Clings close and closer to the mother's breast, So the loud torrent, and the whirlwind's roar, But bind him to his native mountains more.
Pagina 259 - Then David returned to bless his household. And Michal the daughter of Saul came out to meet David, and said, How glorious was the king of Israel to-day, who uncovered himself to-day in the eyes of the handmaids of his servants, as one of the vain fellows shamelessly uncovereth himself!
Pagina 284 - But he shall not multiply horses to himself, nor cause the people to return to Egypt, to the end that he should multiply horses : forasmuch as the Lord hath said unto you, ye shall henceforth return no more that way.