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... notice . Praise of her ancestor , Sir William Wallace , 21 V. To Mrs. STEWART of Stair . Inclosing a 23 poem on Miss A- VI . Proclamation in the name of the Muses , . . 26 VII . Dr. BLACKLOCK to the Rev. G. LOWRIE . Encouraging the Bard ...
... notice . Praise of her ancestor , Sir William Wallace , 21 V. To Mrs. STEWART of Stair . Inclosing a 23 poem on Miss A- VI . Proclamation in the name of the Muses , . . 26 VII . Dr. BLACKLOCK to the Rev. G. LOWRIE . Encouraging the Bard ...
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... notice of him in his letters to Mrs. Dunlop , · • • XIII . From Dr. MOORE . 23d Jan. 1787. In answer to the foregoing , and inclosing a 42 sonnet on the Bard , by Miss Williams , . 44 XIV . To the Rev. G. LOWRIE . Thanks for ad- vice ...
... notice of him in his letters to Mrs. Dunlop , · • • XIII . From Dr. MOORE . 23d Jan. 1787. In answer to the foregoing , and inclosing a 42 sonnet on the Bard , by Miss Williams , . 44 XIV . To the Rev. G. LOWRIE . Thanks for ad- vice ...
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... notice of him , should heap the altar with the incense of flattery . Their high an- cestry , their own great and godlike qualities and actions , should be recounted with the most exaggerated description . This , Madam , is a task for ...
... notice of him , should heap the altar with the incense of flattery . Their high an- cestry , their own great and godlike qualities and actions , should be recounted with the most exaggerated description . This , Madam , is a task for ...
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... notice ; but in a most enlightened , informed age and nation , when poetry is and has been the study of men of the first natural genius , aided with all the powers of polite of polite learning , polite books , and polite company - to be ...
... notice ; but in a most enlightened , informed age and nation , when poetry is and has been the study of men of the first natural genius , aided with all the powers of polite of polite learning , polite books , and polite company - to be ...
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... notice I have lately had ; and in a language where Pope and Churchill have raised the laugh , and Shenstone and Gray drawn the tear - where Thomson and Beattie have painted the landscape , and Little- ton and Collins described the heart ...
... notice I have lately had ; and in a language where Pope and Churchill have raised the laugh , and Shenstone and Gray drawn the tear - where Thomson and Beattie have painted the landscape , and Little- ton and Collins described the heart ...
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Page 241 - Still o'er these scenes my memory wakes, And fondly broods with miser care ; Time but the impression stronger makes, As streams their channels deeper wear.
Page 142 - An' fill it in a silver tassie, That I may drink before I go, A service to my bonnie lassie: The boat rocks at the pier o...
Page 59 - 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.
Page 149 - ... in an autumnal morning, without feeling an elevation of soul like the enthusiasm of devotion or poetry. Tell me, my dear friend, to what can this be owing! Are we a piece of machinery, which, like the ./Eolian harp, passive, takes the impression of the passing accident; or do these workings argue something within us above the trodden clod...
Page 149 - I have some favourite flowers in spring, among which are the mountain-daisy, the hare-bell, the fox-glove, the wild-brier rose, the budding birch, and the hoary hawthorn, that I view and hang over with particular delight.
Page 148 - Bagdat in order to pass the rest of the day in meditation and prayer. As I was here airing myself on the tops of the mountains, I fell into a profound contemplation on the vanity of human life; and, passing from one thought to another, surely, said I, man is but a shadow and life a dream.
Page 259 - As cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country.
Page 215 - But to conclude my silly rhyme, (I'm scant o' verse, and scant o' time,) To make a happy fire-side clime To weans and wife, That's the true pathos and sublime Of human life.
Page 222 - Mary! dear departed shade! Where is thy place of blissful rest? Seest thou thy lover lowly laid? Hear'st thou the groans that rend his breast?
Page 105 - The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and Nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the war of elements, The wreck of matter, and the crush of worlds.