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... leave this scene , and study the Scottish character with some shepherd boy on the hills , as he reads God's word upon the green - sward , and meditates on things divine , while tending his flocks far from the house of God , on the ...
... leave this scene , and study the Scottish character with some shepherd boy on the hills , as he reads God's word upon the green - sward , and meditates on things divine , while tending his flocks far from the house of God , on the ...
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... leave this region , the only unpleasant one in the whole of this magnificent city , and ascend to the old Castle , where we shall see the Regalia of Scotland , preserved in a little room at the top of the Castle . These regalia consist ...
... leave this region , the only unpleasant one in the whole of this magnificent city , and ascend to the old Castle , where we shall see the Regalia of Scotland , preserved in a little room at the top of the Castle . These regalia consist ...
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... leaving Oxford , in the very heyday of youth , with an amazing exu- berance of animal spirits , and the command of an ample fortune , he must have run a somewhat ex- travagant career . He purchased a beautiful estate on the banks of ...
... leaving Oxford , in the very heyday of youth , with an amazing exu- berance of animal spirits , and the command of an ample fortune , he must have run a somewhat ex- travagant career . He purchased a beautiful estate on the banks of ...
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... leave this earthly scene ? Have I so found it full of pleasing charms ? Some drops of joy , with draughts of ill between ; Some gleams of sunshine ' mid renewing storms ; Is it departing pangs my soul alarms ? Or death's 84 GENIUS OF ...
... leave this earthly scene ? Have I so found it full of pleasing charms ? Some drops of joy , with draughts of ill between ; Some gleams of sunshine ' mid renewing storms ; Is it departing pangs my soul alarms ? Or death's 84 GENIUS OF ...
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... their prayers . His scep- tical doubts no longer troubled him ; they had never been more than shadows ; and he had at last the faith of a confiding Christian . " Leaving Burns's Monument , we ascend the hil , in GENIUS OF SCOTLAND . 93.
... their prayers . His scep- tical doubts no longer troubled him ; they had never been more than shadows ; and he had at last the faith of a confiding Christian . " Leaving Burns's Monument , we ascend the hil , in GENIUS OF SCOTLAND . 93.
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Page 14 - O Caledonia! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic child! Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain and the flood, Land of my sires!
Page 143 - Like a poet hidden In the light of thought, Singing hymns unbidden, Till the world is wrought To sympathy with hopes and fears it heeded not...
Page 143 - What thou art we know not : What is most like thee ? From rainbow clouds there flow not Drops so bright to see As from thy presence showers a rain of melody.
Page 144 - Yet if we could scorn Hate and pride and fear; If we were things born Not to shed a tear, I know not how thy joy we ever should come near. Better than all measures Of delightful sound, Better than all treasures That in books are found, Thy skill to poet were, thou scorner of the ground ! Teach me half the gladness That thy brain must know, Such harmonious madness From my lips would flow, The world should listen then — as I am listening now.
Page 319 - Delicious is the lay that sings The haunts of happy lovers — The path that leads them to the grove, The leafy grove that covers ; And pity sanctifies the verse That paints, by strength of sorrow, The unconquerable strength of love : Bear witness, rueful Yarrow ! But thou, that didst appear so fair To fond imagination, Dost rival in the light of day Her delicate creation. Meek loveliness is round thee spread — A softness still and holy, The grace of forest charms decayed, And pastoral melancholy.
Page 142 - Hail to thee, blithe Spirit! Bird thou never wert, That from Heaven, or near it, Pourest thy full heart In profuse strains of unpremeditated art. Higher still and higher From the earth thou springest Like a cloud of fire; The blue deep thou wingest, And singing still dost soar, and soaring ever singest.
Page 30 - O ! may Heaven their simple lives prevent From Luxury's contagion, weak and vile! Then, howe'er crowns and coronets be rent, A virtuous populace may rise the while, And stand a wall of fire around their much-lov'd Isle. O Thou ! who pour'd the patriotic tide, That stream'd thro...
Page 180 - Clair. There are twenty of Roslin's barons bold Lie buried within that proud chapelle; Each one the holy vault doth hold— But the sea holds lovely Rosabelle. And each St Clair was buried there, With candle, with book, and with knell ; But the sea-caves rung, and the wild winds sung, The dirge of lovely Rosabelle ! XXIV.
Page 213 - Thus saith the Lord, A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation, and bitter weeping; Rachel weeping' for her children, refused to be comforted for her children, because they were not.
Page 87 - They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more; neither shall the sun light on them, nor any heat. 17 For the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters: and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes.