The Book of Scottish Poems: Ancient and ModernJohn Ross Edinburgh Publishing Company, 1878 - 760 من الصفحات |
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... Scotland was announced . To exhibit Scottish poetry as an exponent of the breadth and depth of the national character , was laid down as the leading aim of the work . But while holding that its influence as a purifying , con- solidating ...
... Scotland was announced . To exhibit Scottish poetry as an exponent of the breadth and depth of the national character , was laid down as the leading aim of the work . But while holding that its influence as a purifying , con- solidating ...
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... Scotland , it may be held as unquestionable that the Scots , from whom the country took its name , had their original seat in Ireland , from whence they emigrated to Scotland ; and that a line of Scottish kings ruled in this country ...
... Scotland , it may be held as unquestionable that the Scots , from whom the country took its name , had their original seat in Ireland , from whence they emigrated to Scotland ; and that a line of Scottish kings ruled in this country ...
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... Scotland . Hume argued , from the similarity of the languages of England and Scotland at an early period , that Scotland must have had a similiar series of Saxon invasions to that of England , although they are not recorded by the ...
... Scotland . Hume argued , from the similarity of the languages of England and Scotland at an early period , that Scotland must have had a similiar series of Saxon invasions to that of England , although they are not recorded by the ...
الصفحة 4
... Scotland , north of the Firths of Forth and Clyde , he considers to have been peopled by two Celtic races , the ... Scotland , and the changes made had the effect of welding the different races that since David's reign have formed a ...
... Scotland , north of the Firths of Forth and Clyde , he considers to have been peopled by two Celtic races , the ... Scotland , and the changes made had the effect of welding the different races that since David's reign have formed a ...
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... Scotland has no specimens to offer ; indeed , Anglo - Saxon proper has no connection with Scotland . The earliest poets of both countries appear to have made their first attempts in Norman - French , or Romance language . The first Scot ...
... Scotland has no specimens to offer ; indeed , Anglo - Saxon proper has no connection with Scotland . The earliest poets of both countries appear to have made their first attempts in Norman - French , or Romance language . The first Scot ...
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Æsop Allan Ramsay appeared auld baith beauty blaw bonnie braes braw busk cauld Colonsay court Dame dear death e'er Edinburgh edition fair fame father fear Fife flower frae friar Gavin Douglas grace green gude hame hand hast hear heard heart heaven hill honour Huchowne ilka James John king lady Laird land lassie literary Lord lordis mair maist maun meikle mind mony morning Muse nane ne'er never night nought o'er ower poem poet poetical poetry queen quoth Robin Gray Saint Serf Scotland Scots Scottish Scottish literature sing song soon sorrow soul sweet Syne thee thing thir thou thought Timor mortis conturbat tion took Tristrem trow unto weel Whilk wife wind wonder young youth
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الصفحة 455 - From seeming evil still educing good, And better thence again, and better still, In infinite progression.
الصفحة 729 - 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 696 - There is a spot of earth supremely blest, A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest, Where man, creation's tyrant, casts aside His sword and sceptre, pageantry and pride, While, in his softened looks, benignly blend The sire, the son, the husband, brother, friend.
الصفحة 541 - Ah ! who can tell how many a soul sublime Has felt the influence of malignant star, And waged with Fortune an eternal war ! Checked 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 ! ii.
الصفحة 455 - Ye woodlands all, awake : a boundless song Burst from the groves ! and when the restless day, Expiring, lays the warbling world asleep, Sweetest of birds, sweet Philomela, charm The listening shades, and teach the night His praise.
الصفحة 455 - As home he goes beneath the joyous moon. Ye that keep watch in heaven, as earth asleep Unconscious lies, effuse your mildest beams, Ye constellations, while your angels strike, Amid the spangled sky, the silver lyre.
الصفحة 459 - In lowly dale, fast by a river's side, With woody hill o'er hill encompassed round, A most enchanting wizard did abide, Than whom a fiend more fell is nowhere found.
الصفحة 388 - The Evergreen. Being a Collection of Scots Poems, Wrote by the Ingenious before 1600.
الصفحة 455 - With light and heat refulgent. Then thy sun Shoots full perfection through the swelling year ; And oft thy voice in dreadful thunder speaks, And oft at dawn, deep noon, or falling eve, By brooks and groves in hollow-whispering gales. Thy bounty shines in autumn unconfined, And spreads a common feast for all that lives.
الصفحة 455 - Th' 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...