The Works of Robert Fergusson: To which is Prefixed, a Sketch of the Author's LifeS.A. & H. Oddy, 1807 - 364 pagina's |
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Pagina 199
... tell From what bright planet Justice Fielding fell . Augusta trembles at the awful name ; The darling tongue of Liberty is tame , Basely confined by him in Newgate chains , Nor dare exclaim how harshly Fielding reigns . In days when ...
... tell From what bright planet Justice Fielding fell . Augusta trembles at the awful name ; The darling tongue of Liberty is tame , Basely confined by him in Newgate chains , Nor dare exclaim how harshly Fielding reigns . In days when ...
Pagina 224
... tell , Amang the lasses a ' she bure the bell ; And say , the modest glances o ' her een Far dang the brightest beauties o ' the green ; You ca'd her ay sae innocent , sae young , I thought she kentna how to use her tongue . SANDIE ...
... tell , Amang the lasses a ' she bure the bell ; And say , the modest glances o ' her een Far dang the brightest beauties o ' the green ; You ca'd her ay sae innocent , sae young , I thought she kentna how to use her tongue . SANDIE ...
Pagina 227
... tell the laird : For he's a man weel versed in a ' the laws ; Kens baith their outs and ins , their cracks and flaws ; And ay right gleg , whan things are out o ' joint , At sattlin o ' a nice or kittle point . But yonder's Jock , he'll ...
... tell the laird : For he's a man weel versed in a ' the laws ; Kens baith their outs and ins , their cracks and flaws ; And ay right gleg , whan things are out o ' joint , At sattlin o ' a nice or kittle point . But yonder's Jock , he'll ...
Pagina 231
... tell me , Geordie ! he had sic a gift , That scarce a starnie blinkit frae the lift , But he would some auld warld name for't find , As gart him keep it freshly in his mind . For this , some ca'd him an uncanny wight : The clash gaed ...
... tell me , Geordie ! he had sic a gift , That scarce a starnie blinkit frae the lift , But he would some auld warld name for't find , As gart him keep it freshly in his mind . For this , some ca'd him an uncanny wight : The clash gaed ...
Pagina 242
... tell . She'll rather to the fields resort , Whare music gars the day seem short , Whare doggies play , and lammies sport On gowany braes , Whare peerless Fancy hauds her court , And tunes her lays . 1 CALLER OYSTERS . Happy the man ...
... tell . She'll rather to the fields resort , Whare music gars the day seem short , Whare doggies play , and lammies sport On gowany braes , Whare peerless Fancy hauds her court , And tunes her lays . 1 CALLER OYSTERS . Happy the man ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 116 - 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 250 - Mark it, Cesario; it is old and plain: 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 288 - And dim our dolefu' days wi' bairnly fear ; The mind's aye cradled when the grave is near. Yet thrift, industrious, bides her latest days, Tho' age her sair-dow'd front wi' runcles wave ; Yet frae the russet lap the spindle plays ; Her e'enin stent reels she as weel's the lave. On some feast-day the wee things, buskit braw, Shall heeze her heart up wi...
Pagina 247 - 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 66 - 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 198 - 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 313 - I'd been there, How I wad trimm'd the bill o' fare ! For ne'er sic surly wight as he 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
Pagina 132 - O great god Pan, to thee Thus do we sing ! Thou that keep'st us chaste and free As the young spring ; Ever be thy honour spoke, From that place the Morn is broke To that place Day doth unyoke...
Pagina 243 - HAPPY the man who, void of cares and strife, In silken or in leathern purse retains A Splendid Shilling.
Pagina 288 - O mock na this, my friends ! but rather mourn, Ye in life's brawest spring wi' reason clear ; Wi' eild our idle fancies a' return, And dim our dolefu' days wi' bairnly fear ; The mind's ay cradled whan the grave is near.