The Book of Scottish Poems: Ancient and ModernJohn Ross |
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... pronounced as they are at present , has been modernized , as thai , they ; bute , boot ; and the use of v for u and u for v , as in vpon and euery , has been abolished as misleading . These , with the conversion of the plurals es and.
... pronounced as they are at present , has been modernized , as thai , they ; bute , boot ; and the use of v for u and u for v , as in vpon and euery , has been abolished as misleading . These , with the conversion of the plurals es and.
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... present Collection is with the poetry itself , as the most powerful expression of the forces that move the human spirit ; and with the poets , as the media through which these forces are most conspicuously manifested : the specimens ...
... present Collection is with the poetry itself , as the most powerful expression of the forces that move the human spirit ; and with the poets , as the media through which these forces are most conspicuously manifested : the specimens ...
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... present Saxon - speak- ing population of Scotland , as manifested in the tenderness and delicacy of those songs and melodies , that have flowed as by instinct from the heart of the amalgamated race , and compare this with the ...
... present Saxon - speak- ing population of Scotland , as manifested in the tenderness and delicacy of those songs and melodies , that have flowed as by instinct from the heart of the amalgamated race , and compare this with the ...
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... present boundaries into one patriotic community , so co- mingled that now the distinctions of race are almost obliterated . But , besides the infusion of Norman blood , which was almost exclusively introduced into the higher ranks of ...
... present boundaries into one patriotic community , so co- mingled that now the distinctions of race are almost obliterated . But , besides the infusion of Norman blood , which was almost exclusively introduced into the higher ranks of ...
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... present version of that poem must have been greatly modernised from what Thomas made it , and is likely to have been taken down from the recitation of one of those minstrels to whom De Brunne attributes ignorance of its meaning , and ...
... present version of that poem must have been greatly modernised from what Thomas made it , and is likely to have been taken down from the recitation of one of those minstrels to whom De Brunne attributes ignorance of its meaning , and ...
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Popular passages
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...