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... mind , that was not infenfible to flattery ; and which difcreetly concluded : Henceforward I'll not tempt my fate On dazzling rays to stare , Left I should tine dear self - conceit , And read and write nae mair . It is eafy to trace ...
... mind , that was not infenfible to flattery ; and which difcreetly concluded : Henceforward I'll not tempt my fate On dazzling rays to stare , Left I should tine dear self - conceit , And read and write nae mair . It is eafy to trace ...
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... mind ; ' Tis mair to mirth than grief inclin'd : I rather choose to laugh at folly , Than fhew diflike by melancholy . As to his religion , he honestly avowed his creed : Neift , Anti - Toland , Blunt , and Whifton , Know pofitively I ...
... mind ; ' Tis mair to mirth than grief inclin'd : I rather choose to laugh at folly , Than fhew diflike by melancholy . As to his religion , he honestly avowed his creed : Neift , Anti - Toland , Blunt , and Whifton , Know pofitively I ...
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... mind were the gift of na- ture , freely exercifing itself within the sphere of its own obfervation . Born in a wild country , and accustomed to the society of its rustic inhabitants , the poet's talents found their firft exercife in ob ...
... mind were the gift of na- ture , freely exercifing itself within the sphere of its own obfervation . Born in a wild country , and accustomed to the society of its rustic inhabitants , the poet's talents found their firft exercife in ob ...
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... mind . As he extended the fphere of his acquaintance , we may prefume , that his knowledge of men , and acquaintance with manners , were enlarged ; and , in his latter compofitions , we may difcern a sufficient intelligence of thofe ...
... mind . As he extended the fphere of his acquaintance , we may prefume , that his knowledge of men , and acquaintance with manners , were enlarged ; and , in his latter compofitions , we may difcern a sufficient intelligence of thofe ...
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... mind its ancient honours , while it held the rank of a diftinct kingdom , and attached to the fucceffion of its ancient princes . Of fimilar fen- timents , at that time , were many of the Scotish gentry . The chief friends of the poet ...
... mind its ancient honours , while it held the rank of a diftinct kingdom , and attached to the fucceffion of its ancient princes . Of fimilar fen- timents , at that time , were many of the Scotish gentry . The chief friends of the poet ...
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Page lxxxiii - The sun had long since in the lap Of Thetis taken out his nap, And like a lobster boil'd, the morn From black to red began to turn."* The Imagination modifies images, and gives unity to variety; it sees all things in one, il piu nell
Page xxi - The Evergreen. Being a Collection of Scots Poems, Wrote by the Ingenious before 1600.
Page xxiii - Tane leif at nature with ane orient blast; And lusty May, that muddir is of flouris, Had maid the birdis to begyn thair houris...
Page 217 - One, and so round till the number of the persons agree with that of the Dice, (which may fall upon himself if the number be within twelve ; ) then he sets the Dice to him, or bids him take them : He on whom they fall is obliged to drink, or pay a small forfeiture in money ; then throws, and so on : but if he forgets to cry Hy-jinks he pays a forfeiture into the Bank.
Page cxlii - O happy love ! where love like this is found ! O heart-felt raptures ! bliss beyond compare ! I've paced much this weary, mortal round, And sage experience bids me this declare— ' If Heaven a draught of heavenly pleasure spare, One cordial in this melancholy vale, 'Tis when a youthful, loving, modest pair, In other's arms breathe out the tender tale, Beneath...
Page cvii - The Monk and the Miller's Wife ' would of itself be his passport to immortality as a comic poet. In this capacity, he might enter the lists with Chaucer, and Boccacio, with no great risk of discomfiture.
Page c - Be sure ye dinna quat the grip Of ilka joy when ye are young, Before auld age your vitals nip, And lay ye twafald o'er a rung. Sweet youth's a...
Page 281 - May boldly deviate from the common track ; Great wits sometimes may gloriously offend, And rise to faults true critics dare not mend. From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part. And snatch a grace beyond the reach of art, Which, without passing through the judgment, gains The heart, and all its end at once attains.
Page cxlii - I've paced much this weary mortal round, And sage experience bids me this declare 'If Heaven a draught of heavenly pleasure spare, One cordial in this melancholy vale, 'Tis when a youthful, loving, modest pair, In other's arms breathe out the tender tale, Beneath the milk-white thorn that scents the evening gale.
Page cxvii - Greater works cannot well be without some inequalities and oversights, and they are in them pardonable; but a song loses all its lustre if it be not polished with the greatest accuracy. The smallest blemish in it, like a flaw in a jewel, takes off the whole value of it A Song is, as it were, a little image in enamel, that requires all the nice touches of the pencil, a gloss and a smoothness, with those delicate finishing strokes, which would be superfluous and thrown away upon larger figures, where...