The History of Scotish PoetryEdmonston and Douglas, 1861 - 619 sider |
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... period , having engaged in farming on a large scale in Cornwall , in company with Mr. Hayter , his brother - in - law , he lost most of his property in the attempt to introduce the modes of farming in use in Scotland . He was a tall ...
... period , having engaged in farming on a large scale in Cornwall , in company with Mr. Hayter , his brother - in - law , he lost most of his property in the attempt to introduce the modes of farming in use in Scotland . He was a tall ...
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... period to literary history , consisted of his biographical articles which appeared in the seventh edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica . To the Supplement of the sixth edition he had furnished a few articles ; but when the property of ...
... period to literary history , consisted of his biographical articles which appeared in the seventh edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica . To the Supplement of the sixth edition he had furnished a few articles ; but when the property of ...
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... period of the Disruption , he joined the Free Church ; and in his death the Kirk - Session of Free St. John's has to mourn the removal of one who , for so many years , was its most aged and honoured member . " In connexion with the last ...
... period of the Disruption , he joined the Free Church ; and in his death the Kirk - Session of Free St. John's has to mourn the removal of one who , for so many years , was its most aged and honoured member . " In connexion with the last ...
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... period to which they are referred , the art of writing was unknown to the inhabitants of Greece . It is no longer pretended that any Gaelic poetry has been preserved in early manuscripts ; and indeed the period when Gaelic can be traced ...
... period to which they are referred , the art of writing was unknown to the inhabitants of Greece . It is no longer pretended that any Gaelic poetry has been preserved in early manuscripts ; and indeed the period when Gaelic can be traced ...
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... period of a general denization of the Saxon language in Scotland . " That monarch , " he remarks , " had been bred in England . English , in consequence , would become the language of that court . The courtiers would carry it to their ...
... period of a general denization of the Saxon language in Scotland . " That monarch , " he remarks , " had been bred in England . English , in consequence , would become the language of that court . The courtiers would carry it to their ...
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Aberdeen afterwards Alexander ancient Andrews appears Bishop Bishop Percy century Chaucer church Complaynt of Scotland composition court curious David Irving doth Douglas Drummond Duke of Albany Dunbar Earl Edinb Edinburgh edition English Poetry entitled French Freyr greit gude haue Hist honour Irving John King James king's Kirk lady Langholm language Latin learned likewise Lindsay Lindsay's Lond Lord maid mair maist mentioned minstrels mony nocht original Parliaments of Scotland passage Peerage of Scotland period Picts Pinkerton's poem poet poetical prince printed Psalms Queen quha quhair Quhat Quhen quhilk quod remarks rhyme Robert Robert Henryson romance sall scho Scot Scotish Scotish poets Scotland Scotorum Sir David Lindsay song specimen stanzas suld supposed syne thair thame thay thee thocht Thomas thou thow tion translation Tristrem tyme verses versification wald Wallace weill writer written
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Side 350 - So on he fares, and to the border comes Of Eden, where delicious Paradise, Now nearer, crowns with her enclosure green, As with a rural mound, the champain head Of a steep wilderness, whose hairy sides With thicket overgrown, grotesque and wild, Access denied...
Side xvi - Autobiography." IRVING (DAVID). The lives of the Scotish poets, with preliminary dissertations on the literary history of Scotland, and the early Scotish drama.
Side 214 - I mend the fyre and beikit me about, Than tuik ane drink, my spreitis to comfort, And armit me weill fra the cauld thairout. To cut the winter nicht and mak it schort I tuik ane quair - and left all uther sport Writtin be worthie Chaucer glorious Of fair Creisseid and worthie Troylus.
Side 350 - Which to our general sire gave prospect large Into his nether empire neighbouring round : And higher than that wall a circling row Of goodliest trees, loaden with fairest fruit, Blossoms and fruits at once of golden hue...
Side 374 - Quat buik is that, harlot, into thy hand ? Out, walloway! this is the New Test'ment, In Englisch toung and printit in England : Herisie, herisie! fire, fire! incontinent.
Side 350 - Insuperable height of loftiest shade, Cedar, and pine, and fir, and branching palm, A sylvan scene; and as the ranks ascend Shade above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view.
Side 545 - With swifter speed declines than erst it spread, And, blasted, scarce now shows what it hath been.
Side 547 - So pleas'd at first the tow'ring Alps we try, Mount o'er the vales, and seem to tread the sky, Th' eternal snows appear already past, And the first clouds and mountains seem the last: But, those attain'd, we tremble to survey The growing labours of the lengthen'd way, Th' increasing prospect tires our wand'ring eyes.
Side 589 - Sedley has that prevailing gentle art, That can with a resistless charm impart The loosest wishes to the chastest heart : Raise such a conflict, kindle such a fire, Between declining virtue and desire, Till the poor vanquish'd maid dissolves away In dreams all night, in sighs and tears all day*.
Side 557 - 11 neither grieve nor yet rejoice, To see him gain what I have lost; The height of my disdain shall be, To laugh at him, to blush for thee; To love thee still, but go no more A begging to a beggar's door.