The Poems of Robert Fergusson: in Two Parts. To which is Prefixed, the Life of the Author, and a Sketch of His Writings; with a Copious Glossary Annexed, 1. kötetBenjamin Chapman. A. Small, printer., 1815 - 331 oldal |
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i. oldal
... hope , be deemed unnecessa- ry ; for every one wishes to know the character of a man whose productions they admire . ROBERT FERGUSSON was the younger of two sons of William Fergusson , a man of worth , but of hum- ble fortune ; who ...
... hope , be deemed unnecessa- ry ; for every one wishes to know the character of a man whose productions they admire . ROBERT FERGUSSON was the younger of two sons of William Fergusson , a man of worth , but of hum- ble fortune ; who ...
vii. oldal
... Hope 45 The Rivers of Scotland . An Ode Town and Country contrasted . An Epistle to a Friend Ode to Pity 48 57 60 On the cold month of April , 1771. A Poem 62 The Simile 65 The Buggs 67 A Saturday's Expedition . In mock heroics Page 74 The.
... Hope 45 The Rivers of Scotland . An Ode Town and Country contrasted . An Epistle to a Friend Ode to Pity 48 57 60 On the cold month of April , 1771. A Poem 62 The Simile 65 The Buggs 67 A Saturday's Expedition . In mock heroics Page 74 The.
44. oldal
... limpid stream in chrystal tides , " Thro ' rocks , thro ' dens , and ever verdant vales , " Till to the town's unhallow'd wall it glides , - Where all its purity and lustre fails . " ODE TO HOPE . HOPE ! lively cheerer of the 44.
... limpid stream in chrystal tides , " Thro ' rocks , thro ' dens , and ever verdant vales , " Till to the town's unhallow'd wall it glides , - Where all its purity and lustre fails . " ODE TO HOPE . HOPE ! lively cheerer of the 44.
45. oldal
... Hope in lively garb is nigh ; Let pining Discontentment mourn , Let dull ey'd Melancholy grieve , Since pleasing hope must reign by turn , And ev'ry bitter thought relieve . O smiling hope in adverse hour , I feel thy influencing pow'r ...
... Hope in lively garb is nigh ; Let pining Discontentment mourn , Let dull ey'd Melancholy grieve , Since pleasing hope must reign by turn , And ev'ry bitter thought relieve . O smiling hope in adverse hour , I feel thy influencing pow'r ...
46. oldal
... hope ! ' tis thine to cure , Devoid of Esculapian power ; For oft thy friendly aid avails , When all the strength of physic fails . Nay , e'en tho ' death should aim his dart , I know he lifts his arm in vain , Since thou this lesson ...
... hope ! ' tis thine to cure , Devoid of Esculapian power ; For oft thy friendly aid avails , When all the strength of physic fails . Nay , e'en tho ' death should aim his dart , I know he lifts his arm in vain , Since thou this lesson ...
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62. oldal - O ! who can hold a fire in his hand By thinking on the frosty Caucasus? Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite By bare imagination of a feast?
186. oldal - The spinsters and the knitters in the sun, And the free maids that weave their thread with bones, Do use to chant it ; it is silly sooth, And dallies with the innocence of love, Like the old age.
194. oldal - Ferguson, whose irregularities sometimes led him into unpleasant rencontres with these military conservators of public order, and who mentions them so often that he may be termed their poet...
226. oldal - At night, in calmest slumbers dose fu' sound ; Nor doctor need their weary life to spae, Nor drogs their noddle and their sense confound, Till death slip sleely on, and gie the hindmost wound.
iv. oldal - No sculptured marble here, nor pompous lay, ' No storied urn nor animated bust ;' This simple stone directs pale Scotia's way To pour her sorrows o'er her poet's dust.
205. oldal - A cauler burn o' siller sheen, Ran cannily out-owre the green ; And whan our gutcher's drouth had been To bide right sair, He loutit down, and drank bedeen A dainty skair. His bairns had a', before the flood, A langer tack o* flesh and blood ; • * And on mair pithy shanks they stood Than Noah's line, Wha still hae been a feckless brood, Wi
179. oldal - HAPPY the man who, void of cares and strife, In silken or in leathern purse retains A Splendid Shilling.
100. oldal - O great god Pan, to thee Thus do we sing ! Thou that keep'st us chaste and free As the young spring ; Ever be thy honour spoke, From that place the Morn is broke To that place Day doth unyoke...
288. oldal - Wi' thee but wi' a dowy heart; Aft frae the Fifan coast I've seen Thee tow'ring on thy summit green, So glowr the saints when first is given A fav'rite keek o...
267. oldal - That void our test'ments, and can freely gie Sic will and scoup to the ordain'd trustee, That he may tir our stateliest riggins bare, Nor acres, houses, woods, nor fishins spare, Till he can lend the stoitering state a lift Wi...