Woodnotes of a wanderer [in verse].J. Menzies, 1852 - 275 pagina's |
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Pagina 6
... Glassford Bell , Esq . The lines , trifling as they may appear , were inserted in an early number . Em- boldened by encouragement , Mr. Ramsay contributed another poem to the Journal , entitled , " Lines 6 LIFE OF THE AUTHOR .
... Glassford Bell , Esq . The lines , trifling as they may appear , were inserted in an early number . Em- boldened by encouragement , Mr. Ramsay contributed another poem to the Journal , entitled , " Lines 6 LIFE OF THE AUTHOR .
Pagina 8
... appears only to require cultiva- tion to undertake a more daring flight . Written in the strain of Tenant's " Anster Fair , " " The Eglinton Park Meeting " is a running commentary on everything that came within the author's observation ...
... appears only to require cultiva- tion to undertake a more daring flight . Written in the strain of Tenant's " Anster Fair , " " The Eglinton Park Meeting " is a running commentary on everything that came within the author's observation ...
Pagina 28
... Appear to fly , with critics e'en may hold ; Though I ne'er yet have heard of flying steed Save Pegasus , who was not known to breed . XLII . In ladies , lords , knights , gents of every grade , Clergy , physicians , lawyers , and ...
... Appear to fly , with critics e'en may hold ; Though I ne'er yet have heard of flying steed Save Pegasus , who was not known to breed . XLII . In ladies , lords , knights , gents of every grade , Clergy , physicians , lawyers , and ...
Pagina 33
... appear ; Enough to summon to this world the ghost Of mighty Nimrod ; and he may be here Around upon aërial billows tossed ; - You can't say no , I'm sure , my reader dear ; But to the race ( let him who doubts disprove it ) , ' Twas won ...
... appear ; Enough to summon to this world the ghost Of mighty Nimrod ; and he may be here Around upon aërial billows tossed ; - You can't say no , I'm sure , my reader dear ; But to the race ( let him who doubts disprove it ) , ' Twas won ...
Pagina 61
... Appears to bring forth churches very well . " Yes , " said my fellow traveller , if high " Our morals stand not , this protest I shall , " " Tis not for want of churches , or more near it " To come , for monuments of party spirit ...
... Appears to bring forth churches very well . " Yes , " said my fellow traveller , if high " Our morals stand not , this protest I shall , " " Tis not for want of churches , or more near it " To come , for monuments of party spirit ...
Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
ancient auld Ayr Advertiser Ayrshire bard beautiful behold beneath brae breast bright Burns Caledonian Forest chiel church churchyard dame dark dear deep dream Dundonald Castle e'en e'er earth Eglinton Park Meeting Elizabeth Mure fair Fame flowers frae genius Gilsland Grĉme grave grey hast heard heart heaven hills hoary hour Hughie Spiers John Ramsay Killie Kilmarnock land LANERCOST PRIORY life's light lofty lone look loud Loudon Castle mighty mong mony morn mountain muse Nature's NAWORTH CASTLE ne'er neath night o'er ocean passed poems pride race rock roll roun round ruin scene Scotland seeds of death seen shade shore skelpin smile song soul stand stood strain sublime sweet tale Tannahill tears tell thee things thou tide tower Twas unto vale wave weary wild wind wings
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Pagina 144 - And when he was come near, he beheld the city, and wept over it, saying, If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things which belong unto thy peace ! but now they are hid from thine eyes.
Pagina 263 - No, faith, not a jot; but to follow him thither with modesty enough, and likelihood to lead it; as thus: Alexander died, Alexander was buried, Alexander returneth...
Pagina 15 - The king of gods begot me : what shall be, Or is, or ever was, in fate, I see. Mine is the' invention of the charming lyre ; Sweet notes and heavenly numbers I inspire.
Pagina 83 - They found it so effectual, or were impressed with so high an opinion of its virtues, that they proposed to keep it and forfeit the money ; but the Laird of Lee would not consent to part with so venerable and so gifted an heirloom. The laird of that time was a High Cavalier, and one of the charges brought against him by the party whom he had to oppose, was that he effected cures by means of necromancy.
Pagina 259 - When all was in sunshine and beauty arrayed ; That dream has departed, how fleeting and vain — Farewell! for I never may see you again. O'er moss and o'er moorland my path soon shall be, The cloud-covered mountain and wide stormy sea, Your beauties will gladden some happier swain — Farewell ! for I never may see you again.
Pagina 83 - ... being transferred to a country of Christians. On the contrary it has been all along, even till the present day, remarkable for medical virtue. It is especially sovereign in the diseases of horned cattle. The mode of administering it is this : — Holding it by the chain, it is three times plumped down into a quantity of water, and once drawn round — three dips and a sweil, as the country people express it — and the cattle or others affected drinking this water, the cure is speedy and effectual....
Pagina 70 - There is given Unto the things of earth, which Time hath bent, A spirit's feeling, and where he hath leant His hand, but broke his scythe, there is a power And magic in the ruin'd battlement, For which the palace of the present hour Must yield its pomp, and wait till ages are its dower.
Pagina 209 - ... Winter storm had shed Its baneful power, And oft returning summer clad In leaf and flower — A redbreast sang of sunshine gone, And dreary winter coming on ; What though his strains had never known The rules of art? They woke to notes of sweetest tone The trembling heart; Bade days return for ever fled, And hopes long laid among the dead, And forms in fairy colours clad, Confused appear; While melting Feeling kindly shed Her warmest tear. When, lo ! a flash, a thund'ring knell, That startled...
Pagina 82 - ... but perfectly transparent. The nature, of the stone cannot be determined by lapidaries, being apparently different in all respects from any known in this quarter of the world. To the edge of the coin a small silver chain has been attached, and the whole is deposited in a gold box, which the Empress Maria Theresa presented to the lather of the late Count Lockhart. The Lee Penny...
Pagina 208 - And skim the dell, While leaves from autumn's sapless spray Down rustling fell. While on a thorn that widely spread Its moss-grown lowly bending head, Where long the winter's storm had shed Its baneful power, And oft returning summer clad In leaf and flower ; A redbreast sang of sunshine gone, And dreary winter coming on : What though his strains had never known The rules of art, They woke to notes of sweetest tone, The trembling heart. Bade days return...