Woodnotes of a wanderer [in verse].J. Menzies, 1852 - 275 pagina's |
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Pagina 32
... seems to have been made for two or three , Or six , or seven ; or , lest dame Killie frown , We'll say her elect may eleven be , And some of these ( heaven knows ) make one inclined To think that Fortune's mad as well as blind . LV ...
... seems to have been made for two or three , Or six , or seven ; or , lest dame Killie frown , We'll say her elect may eleven be , And some of these ( heaven knows ) make one inclined To think that Fortune's mad as well as blind . LV ...
Pagina 33
John Ramsay. And there's a maniac sweep , who seems to fear Water nor wind , nor ought beside does he ! His head , neck , feet , all want the usual gear , Yet wears the happiest visage I can see ! Nature such minds from care does kindly ...
John Ramsay. And there's a maniac sweep , who seems to fear Water nor wind , nor ought beside does he ! His head , neck , feet , all want the usual gear , Yet wears the happiest visage I can see ! Nature such minds from care does kindly ...
Pagina 62
... seem not to have known , " In their hot zeal , their neighbour's from their own . ' XXI . " I lost three hundred pounds the other day- " A bankrupt business - by a party who " Had in religious matters much to say— " To all the points of ...
... seem not to have known , " In their hot zeal , their neighbour's from their own . ' XXI . " I lost three hundred pounds the other day- " A bankrupt business - by a party who " Had in religious matters much to say— " To all the points of ...
Pagina 67
... seem beneath their power to bow , Her vengeance sleeps but - and it comes as bold As torrent from the mountain's shaggy brow , Or surf that for a thousand leagues has rolled , Of physical and moral destitution- Still sad and certain is ...
... seem beneath their power to bow , Her vengeance sleeps but - and it comes as bold As torrent from the mountain's shaggy brow , Or surf that for a thousand leagues has rolled , Of physical and moral destitution- Still sad and certain is ...
Pagina 72
... seems to say ; Lost to the world , and mouldering in the clay . In yonder spot , alike unknown they lie , Till the last morn shall dawn along the sky . Oft hast thou stood in night of awful storm , And seen the tempest nature's face ...
... seems to say ; Lost to the world , and mouldering in the clay . In yonder spot , alike unknown they lie , Till the last morn shall dawn along the sky . Oft hast thou stood in night of awful storm , And seen the tempest nature's face ...
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 Græme 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...