Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volume 2Carey and Hart, 1842 |
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... fancy suddenly expands into a power of umbrage impene- trable to the sun in Scorpio . Lo ! a sudden burst of sunshine , bringing back the pen- sive spirit from the past to the present , and kindling it , till it dances like light ...
... fancy suddenly expands into a power of umbrage impene- trable to the sun in Scorpio . Lo ! a sudden burst of sunshine , bringing back the pen- sive spirit from the past to the present , and kindling it , till it dances like light ...
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... fancy to the mur- mur of some single waterfall . But a truce to antithesis - a deceptive style of criticism - and see how Thomson sings of snow . Why - in the following lines , almost - though not quite as well as Christopher North in ...
... fancy to the mur- mur of some single waterfall . But a truce to antithesis - a deceptive style of criticism - and see how Thomson sings of snow . Why - in the following lines , almost - though not quite as well as Christopher North in ...
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... Fancy feign'd His tufted cottage rising through the snow , He meets the roughness of the middle waste , Far from the track and blest abode of man ; While round him night resistless closes fast , And every tempest howling o'er his head ...
... Fancy feign'd His tufted cottage rising through the snow , He meets the roughness of the middle waste , Far from the track and blest abode of man ; While round him night resistless closes fast , And every tempest howling o'er his head ...
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... fancy and imagina- tion fade , and " The still sad music of humanity " is heard by the heart amidst the roar of the merciless hur- ricane . We remember the words of Burns - the peerless peasant and simple as they are , with what ...
... fancy and imagina- tion fade , and " The still sad music of humanity " is heard by the heart amidst the roar of the merciless hur- ricane . We remember the words of Burns - the peerless peasant and simple as they are , with what ...
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... or shut up from the view of the wide Atlantic , I experienced none of those pleasures most congenial to my mind . None but aerial companions suited my fancy . that formed of the dense foliage 112 WILSON'S MISCELLANEOUS WRITINGS .
... or shut up from the view of the wide Atlantic , I experienced none of those pleasures most congenial to my mind . None but aerial companions suited my fancy . that formed of the dense foliage 112 WILSON'S MISCELLANEOUS WRITINGS .
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Page 10 - Where through the long-drawn aisle and fretted vault The pealing anthem swells the note of praise.
Page 21 - The Lord giveth, and the Lord ' taketh away ; blessed be the name of the Lord.
Page 356 - MARY YE banks and braes and streams around The castle o' Montgomery, Green be your woods, and fair your flowers, Your waters never drumlie! There simmer first unfauld her robes, And there the langest tarry; For there I took the last fareweel O
Page 357 - O pale, pale now, those rosy lips, I aft hae kiss'd sae fondly ! And closed for aye the sparkling glance That dwelt on me sae kindly : And mouldering now in silent dust That heart that lo'ed me dearly ! But still within my bosom's core Shall live my Highland Mary.
Page 352 - Let him follow me! By Oppression's woes and pains! By your sons in servile chains! We will drain our dearest veins, But they shall be free! •Lay the proud usurpers low ! Tyrants fall in every foe ! Liberty's in every blow! Let us do or die...
Page 133 - Blessings be with them — and eternal praise, Who gave us nobler loves, and nobler cares, The Poets, who on earth have made us Heirs Of truth and pure delight by heavenly lays ! Oh ! might my name be numbered among theirs, Then gladly would I end my mortal days.
Page 25 - Let down the flood, and half dissolved by day, Rustles no more; but to the sedgy bank Fast grows, or gathers round the pointed stone, A crystal pavement, by the breath of Heaven Cemented firm ; till, seized from shore to shore, The whole imprison'd river growls below.
Page 354 - For a' that, and a' that, Their dignities, and a' that, The pith o' sense and pride o' worth Are higher ranks than a' that. Then let us pray that come it may — As come it will for a' that — That sense and worth, o'er a' the earth. May bear the gree, and a' that. For a' that, and a' that, It's comin' yet, for a' that, — That man to man, the warld o'er.
Page 29 - Beneath the formless wild; but wanders on From hill to dale, still more and more astray : Impatient flouncing through the drifted heaps, Stung with the thoughts of home; the thoughts of home Rush on his nerves> and call their vigour forth In many a vain attempt.
Page 355 - THEIR groves o' sweet myrtle let foreign lands reckon, Where bright-beaming summers exalt the perfume ; Far dearer to me yon lone glen o' green breckan, Wi' the burn stealing under the lang yellow broom. Far dearer to me are yon humble broom bowers, Where the blue-bell and gowan lurk lowly unseen : For there, lightly tripping amang the wild flowers, A listening the linnet, aft wanders my Jean. Tho...