The Book of Scottish Poems: Ancient and ModernJohn Ross |
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... reason for giving them a merely formal recognition . In the Ancient Section , when not marked unaltered , the spelling of all words that could only be pronounced as they are at present , has been modernized , as thai , they ; bute ...
... reason for giving them a merely formal recognition . In the Ancient Section , when not marked unaltered , the spelling of all words that could only be pronounced as they are at present , has been modernized , as thai , they ; bute ...
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... reason for placing him before Barbour is , that all the poetry attributed to him belongs to the romance school . Dunbar , in his Lament for the Deth of the Makkaris ( makers of poetry ) , mentions that— " Clerk of Tranent , eik he hes ...
... reason for placing him before Barbour is , that all the poetry attributed to him belongs to the romance school . Dunbar , in his Lament for the Deth of the Makkaris ( makers of poetry ) , mentions that— " Clerk of Tranent , eik he hes ...
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... reason to regret your trouble . I am known to all the officers about court ; you have only to ask if I'm at home . See you remember my name . " " By the rood I think I shall need , " said the collier ; " for if I go to court I know no ...
... reason to regret your trouble . I am known to all the officers about court ; you have only to ask if I'm at home . See you remember my name . " " By the rood I think I shall need , " said the collier ; " for if I go to court I know no ...
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... reason , methink , ye should have part , " Thou shall have leave to fish , and tak thee mae , All this forsooth shall in our flitting gae . We serve a lord ; thir fish shall till him gang . " Wallace answered , said , " Thou art in the ...
... reason , methink , ye should have part , " Thou shall have leave to fish , and tak thee mae , All this forsooth shall in our flitting gae . We serve a lord ; thir fish shall till him gang . " Wallace answered , said , " Thou art in the ...
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... reason and high spirit- " That , so long as he con- tinued a prisoner , and acted under the will of another , it neither became him to issue nor them to obey such orders ; but , " he added , " in order to win the prize of chivalry , and ...
... reason and high spirit- " That , so long as he con- tinued a prisoner , and acted under the will of another , it neither became him to issue nor them to obey such orders ; but , " he added , " in order to win the prize of chivalry , and ...
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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...