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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55. oldal
... tell the lovers , Cynthia reigns ; And woo them to her midnight bowers , Among the fragrant dew - clad flowers , Where ev'ry rock , and hill , and dale , With echoes greet the nightingale , Whose pleasing , soft , pathetic tongue , To ...
... tell the lovers , Cynthia reigns ; And woo them to her midnight bowers , Among the fragrant dew - clad flowers , Where ev'ry rock , and hill , and dale , With echoes greet the nightingale , Whose pleasing , soft , pathetic tongue , To ...
101. oldal
... tell the tale of their woe ; The woodlands the tale shall repeat , And the waters shall mournfully flow . For these were the haunts of his love , The sacred retreats of his ease , Where favourite Fancy would rove , As wanton , as light ...
... tell the tale of their woe ; The woodlands the tale shall repeat , And the waters shall mournfully flow . For these were the haunts of his love , The sacred retreats of his ease , Where favourite Fancy would rove , As wanton , as light ...
127. oldal
... tell's his tale Of dangers , sieges , and of battles dire , While they , elate with success of the day , Cheer him with happy smiles , or bitter sighs , When Fortune with a sourer aspect grins . Ah ! how unstable are the joys of life ...
... tell's his tale Of dangers , sieges , and of battles dire , While they , elate with success of the day , Cheer him with happy smiles , or bitter sighs , When Fortune with a sourer aspect grins . Ah ! how unstable are the joys of life ...
131. oldal
... with a vice deflow'r , Her verse is sacred , Justices agree , - Ev'n Justice Fielding signs the wise decree . Let fortune - dealers , wise predictors ! tell From To Sir John Fileding, on his attempt to sup- press the Beggar's Opera.
... with a vice deflow'r , Her verse is sacred , Justices agree , - Ev'n Justice Fielding signs the wise decree . Let fortune - dealers , wise predictors ! tell From To Sir John Fileding, on his attempt to sup- press the Beggar's Opera.
132. oldal
... tell what pieces lack , how few prevail ! I wonder not the low - born menial trade By partial Justice has aside been laid : For she gives no discount for Virtue worn , Her aged joints are without mercy torn . In vain , O GAY ! thy muse ...
... tell what pieces lack , how few prevail ! I wonder not the low - born menial trade By partial Justice has aside been laid : For she gives no discount for Virtue worn , Her aged joints are without mercy torn . In vain , O GAY ! thy muse ...
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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...