The Book of Scottish Poems: Ancient and ModernJohn Ross Edinburgh Publishing Company, 1878 - 760 من الصفحات |
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... Poetical merit has been the leading consideration , but the space given to each author is not to be taken as our estimate of their relative merits , for in the cases of Burns , Scott , and Campbell , their unmutilated popularity is our ...
... Poetical merit has been the leading consideration , but the space given to each author is not to be taken as our estimate of their relative merits , for in the cases of Burns , Scott , and Campbell , their unmutilated popularity is our ...
الصفحة 5
... poetical point of view , it is the poorest literature known . " This consideration may lessen our regret that Scotland has no specimens to offer ; indeed , Anglo - Saxon proper has no connection with Scotland . The earliest poets of ...
... poetical point of view , it is the poorest literature known . " This consideration may lessen our regret that Scotland has no specimens to offer ; indeed , Anglo - Saxon proper has no connection with Scotland . The earliest poets of ...
الصفحة 7
... poetical , and is styled by Mr Ellis the most elegant poem produced during the early part of the fifteenth century . Neither Barbour nor Wyntoun makes any reference to Chaucer or any other English writer ; and although James I ...
... poetical , and is styled by Mr Ellis the most elegant poem produced during the early part of the fifteenth century . Neither Barbour nor Wyntoun makes any reference to Chaucer or any other English writer ; and although James I ...
الصفحة 8
... poetical interregnum afforded more scope for originality , and which the political and ecclesiastical changes that took place made more dependent on the muse herself . In England , Pope had made what was then con- sidered a fortune by ...
... poetical interregnum afforded more scope for originality , and which the political and ecclesiastical changes that took place made more dependent on the muse herself . In England , Pope had made what was then con- sidered a fortune by ...
الصفحة 9
... poetical chief , without being dwarfed by his colossal proportions . The chief characteristic of this school of poetry , as repre- sented by Scott's , is difficult summarily to define . As regards nation- ality , it cannot be said to be ...
... poetical chief , without being dwarfed by his colossal proportions . The chief characteristic of this school of poetry , as repre- sented by Scott's , is difficult summarily to define . As regards nation- ality , it cannot be said to be ...
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الصفحة 441 - From seeming evil still educing good, And better thence again, and better still, In infinite progression.
الصفحة 689 - A wet sheet and a flowing sea, A wind that follows fast, And fills the white and rustling sail, And bends the gallant mast; And bends the gallant mast, my boys, While, like the eagle free, Away the good ship flies, and leaves Old England on the lee. O for a soft and gentle wind!
الصفحة 440 - The impetuous song, and say from whom you rage. His praise, ye brooks, attune, ye trembling rills ; And let me catch it as I muse along. Ye headlong torrents, rapid and profound ; Ye softer floods, that lead the humid maze Along the vale ; and thou, majestic main, A secret world of wonders in thyself, Sound his stupendous praise whose greater voice Or bids you roar, or bids your roarings fall.
الصفحة 440 - Great Source of day, best image here below Of thy Creator, ever pouring wide, From world to world, the vital ocean round, On Nature write with every beam his praise.
الصفحة 606 - How pleasant thy banks and green valleys below, Where wild in the woodlands the primroses blow; There oft as mild Evening weeps over the lea, The sweet-scented birk shades my Mary and me.
الصفحة 519 - AH ! who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar; Ah! who can tell how many a soul sublime Has felt the influence of malignant star, And waged with Fortune an eternal war; Check'd by the scoff of Pride, by Envy's frown, And Poverty's unconquerable bar, In life's low vale remote has pined alone, Then dropt into the grave, unpitied and unknown...
الصفحة 366 - The Evergreen. Being a Collection of Scots Poems, Wrote by the Ingenious before 1600.
الصفحة 441 - There let the shepherd's flute, the virgin's lay, The prompting seraph, and the poet's lyre, Still sing the God of Seasons, as they roll.
الصفحة 439 - And every sense, and every heart, is joy. Then comes thy glory in the Summer months, With light and heat refulgent. Then thy sun Shoots full perfection through the swelling year...
الصفحة 446 - A pleasing land of drowsy-head it was, Of dreams that wave before the half-shut eye ; And of gay castles in the clouds that pass, For ever flushing round a summer sky...