The Book of Scottish Poems: Ancient and ModernJohn Ross |
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... poem produced during the early part of the fifteenth century . Neither Barbour nor Wyntoun makes any reference to Chaucer or any other English writer ; and although James I. acknowledges both Chaucer and Gower as his masters , yet he ...
... poem produced during the early part of the fifteenth century . Neither Barbour nor Wyntoun makes any reference to Chaucer or any other English writer ; and although James I. acknowledges both Chaucer and Gower as his masters , yet he ...
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... poets of the class to whom political patronage or countenance was a necessity , became extinct , or followed their patrons over the border . But the beginning of the eighteenth century intro- duced a new order of poets , to whom the ...
... poets of the class to whom political patronage or countenance was a necessity , became extinct , or followed their patrons over the border . But the beginning of the eighteenth century intro- duced a new order of poets , to whom the ...
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... poetic elements such as are rarely combined in one individual ; and this is the key to the fact , that , almost over all the world , he is the greatest definer ... POEMS AND POETS . ANCIENT SECTION . 1250-1707 . HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION . 9.
... poetic elements such as are rarely combined in one individual ; and this is the key to the fact , that , almost over all the world , he is the greatest definer ... POEMS AND POETS . ANCIENT SECTION . 1250-1707 . HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION . 9.
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... poets of France , Germany , Denmark , and Iceland , before the time of Thomas ; and in 1821 a German professor , in a work on the literature of the Middle Ages , has produced a Greek poem on the Knights of the Round Table , of which Sir ...
... poets of France , Germany , Denmark , and Iceland , before the time of Thomas ; and in 1821 a German professor , in a work on the literature of the Middle Ages , has produced a Greek poem on the Knights of the Round Table , of which Sir ...
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... poem bearing the same title . Dr Irving objects to this assumption , on the ground that both Wyntoun and Huchowne , in quoting the name Hugh , spell it Hew ; yet he is disposed to follow Chalmers , who thinks there cannot be any doubt ...
... poem bearing the same title . Dr Irving objects to this assumption , on the ground that both Wyntoun and Huchowne , in quoting the name Hugh , spell it Hew ; yet he is disposed to follow Chalmers , who thinks there cannot be any doubt ...
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Page 441 - From seeming evil still educing good, And better thence again, and better still, In infinite progression.
Page 689 - A wet sheet and a flowing sea, A wind that follows fast, And fills the white and rustling sail, And bends the gallant mast; And bends the gallant mast, my boys, While, like the eagle free, Away the good ship flies, and leaves Old England on the lee. O for a soft and gentle wind!
Page 440 - The impetuous song, and say from whom you rage. His praise, ye brooks, attune, ye trembling rills ; And let me catch it as I muse along. Ye headlong torrents, rapid and profound ; Ye softer floods, that lead the humid maze Along the vale ; and thou, majestic main, A secret world of wonders in thyself, Sound his stupendous praise whose greater voice Or bids you roar, or bids your roarings fall.
Page 440 - Great Source of day, best image here below Of thy Creator, ever pouring wide, From world to world, the vital ocean round, On Nature write with every beam his praise.
Page 606 - How pleasant thy banks and green valleys below, Where wild in the woodlands the primroses blow; There oft as mild Evening weeps over the lea, The sweet-scented birk shades my Mary and me.
Page 519 - AH ! who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar; Ah! who can tell how many a soul sublime Has felt the influence of malignant star, And waged with Fortune an eternal war; Check'd by the scoff of Pride, by Envy's frown, And Poverty's unconquerable bar, In life's low vale remote has pined alone, Then dropt into the grave, unpitied and unknown...
Page 366 - The Evergreen. Being a Collection of Scots Poems, Wrote by the Ingenious before 1600.
Page 441 - There let the shepherd's flute, the virgin's lay, The prompting seraph, and the poet's lyre, Still sing the God of Seasons, as they roll.
Page 439 - And every sense, and every heart, is joy. Then comes thy glory in the Summer months, With light and heat refulgent. Then thy sun Shoots full perfection through the swelling year...
Page 446 - A pleasing land of drowsy-head it was, Of dreams that wave before the half-shut eye ; And of gay castles in the clouds that pass, For ever flushing round a summer sky...