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... Fair , 731 The Wild Duck and her Brood , Anster Fair , 731 ALEXANDER WILSON- The Tangiers Giant , 734 Watty and Meg , WILLIAM LAIDLAW- 736 Rab and Ringan , . Lucy's Flittin ' , 737 LADY NAIRNE- ALLAN CUNNINGHAM- 738 The Land o ' the ...
... Fair , 731 The Wild Duck and her Brood , Anster Fair , 731 ALEXANDER WILSON- The Tangiers Giant , 734 Watty and Meg , WILLIAM LAIDLAW- 736 Rab and Ringan , . Lucy's Flittin ' , 737 LADY NAIRNE- ALLAN CUNNINGHAM- 738 The Land o ' the ...
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... fair Elfland , Where thou and I this night maun gae . " But , Thomas , ye maun hold your tongue , Whatever ye may hear or see ; For , if you speak a word in Elflyn land , Ye'll ne'er get back to your ain coun- trie . " O they rade on ...
... fair Elfland , Where thou and I this night maun gae . " But , Thomas , ye maun hold your tongue , Whatever ye may hear or see ; For , if you speak a word in Elflyn land , Ye'll ne'er get back to your ain coun- trie . " O they rade on ...
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... fair batell on breid , Merkit our ane fair meid , With spurris spedely thai speid . Our fellis in fane . SYR GAWAYN AND THE GRENE KNYGHT [ Specimen , unaltered . ] I. Sithen the sege & the assaut watz sesed at Troye , tane . that myth ...
... fair batell on breid , Merkit our ane fair meid , With spurris spedely thai speid . Our fellis in fane . SYR GAWAYN AND THE GRENE KNYGHT [ Specimen , unaltered . ] I. Sithen the sege & the assaut watz sesed at Troye , tane . that myth ...
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... fair was his visage ; Right sad of speech , and able in courage ; Broad breast and high , with sturdy craig ' and great ; His lips round , his nose was square and straight ; Bowand 3 brown haird , on brows and breis light ; Clear aspre ...
... fair was his visage ; Right sad of speech , and able in courage ; Broad breast and high , with sturdy craig ' and great ; His lips round , his nose was square and straight ; Bowand 3 brown haird , on brows and breis light ; Clear aspre ...
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... Fair " conceives of the royal poet as his poetic genius : — " Last night I dreamed that to my dark bedside Came , white with rays , the poet of the ' Quhair ' And drew my curtain silently aside , And stood and smiled majestically fair ...
... Fair " conceives of the royal poet as his poetic genius : — " Last night I dreamed that to my dark bedside Came , white with rays , the poet of the ' Quhair ' And drew my curtain silently aside , And stood and smiled majestically fair ...
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Page 455 - From seeming evil still educing good, And better thence again, and better still, In infinite progression.
Page 729 - 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 696 - There is a spot of earth supremely blest, A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest, Where man, creation's tyrant, casts aside His sword and sceptre, pageantry and pride, While, in his softened looks, benignly blend The sire, the son, the husband, brother, friend.
Page 541 - Ah ! who can tell how many a soul sublime Has felt the influence of malignant star, And waged with Fortune an eternal war ! Checked 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 ! ii.
Page 455 - Ye woodlands all, awake : a boundless song Burst from the groves ! and when the restless day, Expiring, lays the warbling world asleep, Sweetest of birds, sweet Philomela, charm The listening shades, and teach the night His praise.
Page 455 - As home he goes beneath the joyous moon. Ye that keep watch in heaven, as earth asleep Unconscious lies, effuse your mildest beams, Ye constellations, while your angels strike, Amid the spangled sky, the silver lyre.
Page 459 - In lowly dale, fast by a river's side, With woody hill o'er hill encompassed round, A most enchanting wizard did abide, Than whom a fiend more fell is nowhere found.
Page 388 - The Evergreen. Being a Collection of Scots Poems, Wrote by the Ingenious before 1600.
Page 455 - With light and heat refulgent. Then thy sun Shoots full perfection through the swelling year ; And oft thy voice in dreadful thunder speaks, And oft at dawn, deep noon, or falling eve, By brooks and groves in hollow-whispering gales. Thy bounty shines in autumn unconfined, And spreads a common feast for all that lives.
Page 455 - Th' 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...