The Book of Scottish Poems: Ancient and ModernJohn Ross |
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... poets of both countries appear to have made their first attempts in Norman - French , or Romance language . The first Scot whom we find cultivating the poetic faculty , " in what was then the most cultivated language , excepting the ...
... poets of both countries appear to have made their first attempts in Norman - French , or Romance language . The first Scot whom we find cultivating the poetic faculty , " in what was then the most cultivated language , excepting the ...
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... poets . The next stage of our poetical literature - the Elizabethan age of that of England - is perhaps the most ... poetic fervour , yet this , the most intensely Puritanic era of English history , is also that of Milton . Hitherto ...
... poets . The next stage of our poetical literature - the Elizabethan age of that of England - is perhaps the most ... poetic fervour , yet this , the most intensely Puritanic era of English history , is also that of Milton . Hitherto ...
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... poet's satire , but which was formerly the harbour of the muse , was superseded by another , of too stern a mould to ... poet of each period , Burns soars as high above Dunbar as a poet , as he does as a man . In both respects , perhaps ...
... poet's satire , but which was formerly the harbour of the muse , was superseded by another , of too stern a mould to ... poet of each period , Burns soars as high above Dunbar as a poet , as he does as a man . In both respects , perhaps ...
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... poet , who , stripped of the accidents of nationality , stands forth an embodi- ment of 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 ...
... poet , who , stripped of the accidents of nationality , stands forth an embodi- ment of 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 ...
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... poets . His language is more obscure than that of Sir Tristrem ; and Sir Frederic Madden considers the MS . of the ... poet , in the Maitland MS . , the name is written The Clerk ; I Skilful . 2 Speech . 3 Writing . 4 Wavering from the ...
... poets . His language is more obscure than that of Sir Tristrem ; and Sir Frederic Madden considers the MS . of the ... poet , in the Maitland MS . , the name is written The Clerk ; I Skilful . 2 Speech . 3 Writing . 4 Wavering from the ...
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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...