Miscellaneous poems, some of which are in the Cumberland dialectBorrowdale, 1805 - 237 strán (strany) |
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Strana 10
... cause belongs Yet fee the loyal fons of Britain go , Like native heroes to engage their foe , And dare the joint attacks of France and Spain , And treach'rous Holland ; on the billowing main . When Albion's navy o'er the roaring flood ...
... cause belongs Yet fee the loyal fons of Britain go , Like native heroes to engage their foe , And dare the joint attacks of France and Spain , And treach'rous Holland ; on the billowing main . When Albion's navy o'er the roaring flood ...
Strana 14
... cause ; ' The king and people happy fhall remain , And each fuftaining , equally fuftain . ས་ ས HABAKKUK . - Chap . 3 . HE Lord tremendous in the thunder calld ; THE I heard thy mighty voice and flood appall'd ; Thro ' the fucceffive ...
... cause ; ' The king and people happy fhall remain , And each fuftaining , equally fuftain . ས་ ས HABAKKUK . - Chap . 3 . HE Lord tremendous in the thunder calld ; THE I heard thy mighty voice and flood appall'd ; Thro ' the fucceffive ...
Strana 44
... cause of this alarm enquires ; Inform'd , the chieftain to his army flies , With rage and horror sparkling in his eyes ; Bids them to arm and for the march prepare , With him new toils and enterprise to share : So faid , he quickly ...
... cause of this alarm enquires ; Inform'd , the chieftain to his army flies , With rage and horror sparkling in his eyes ; Bids them to arm and for the march prepare , With him new toils and enterprise to share : So faid , he quickly ...
Strana 92
... can be tried ; The statesman , ' midft the nation's jars , When deeply funk in debts and wars , Rings loud his patriotic peal , The people's rights , the nations weal , Th ' occafion of the dudgeon fhews , The cause 92.
... can be tried ; The statesman , ' midft the nation's jars , When deeply funk in debts and wars , Rings loud his patriotic peal , The people's rights , the nations weal , Th ' occafion of the dudgeon fhews , The cause 92.
Strana 93
... cause , To guard the King , the church and laws ; That it becomes a free - born land , Like ours , to join with heart and hand , Each base affailant to repel , That fame in future times may tell , What glorious heroes Britons were , The ...
... cause , To guard the King , the church and laws ; That it becomes a free - born land , Like ours , to join with heart and hand , Each base affailant to repel , That fame in future times may tell , What glorious heroes Britons were , The ...
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Strana 200 - It was believed that his object was to penetrate either by the isthmus of Suez, or by the Red Sea, to the Indian Ocean, to embark his troops, and, by a co-operation with Tippoo sultan, to endeavour the overthrow of the British empire in the East.
Strana 126 - I've been at As hes but seldom been, Whar was sec wallopin' an' wark As varra few hev seen , By neeght or day. Bit furst I'll tell you how an' why This parlish bout begun, An' when an' whar, an' whea they war 'At meade a' this feyne fun. Furst, you mun ken, a youthfu...
Strana 125 - ... appear the fanciful embellishments of this pastoral. It is a fact well known to the inhabitants of this county, that when a youthful couple conceive a disposition to venture on the voyage of matrimony, with perhaps more of the assurances of the blind god, than the blind goddess, or in plain English, with more love than money, the bridegroom generally engages two or three of his companions to assist him in canvassing round ten or a dozen of the adjacent parishes; where they invite all, indiscriminately,...
Strana 143 - An' a' the lave, by sleep owrsped, War round us sitten. Someteymes i'th' winter-neeghts, when dark, We'd into th' Ladies' Di'rys yark, There, wi' charade or rebus stark, We'd hev a bout, An' monny a teyme we'd puzzlin' wark Someteymes we'd politics in han'— The king, the laws, the reeghts o' man, The parish clash, the empire's ban', Just as it chanc'd; Each art an' science now an
Strana 116 - He telt, reeght gleesomely, lang seyne. Scot yence got Criffell on his back, Some pedder-leyke, as stwories tell; But whow! his girtins gev* a crack, An' down his boozy burden fell. Auld Nick and Scot yence kempt, they say, Whea best a reape frae saun cud tweyne, Clouts begg'd some caff; quo' Mitchell,
Strana 67 - In vain the Tyrians on their arms rely, In vain attempt to fight, in vain to fly; All their endeavours and their hopes are vain ; Some die entangled in the winding train; Some are devour'd, or feel a loathsome death, Swoln up with blasts of pestilential breath.
Strana 125 - ... verity of such a narrative; but to those who are more intimately acquainted with the rural manners and simple customs of the county of Cumberland, I am confident of their acknowledging every circumstance that has been introduced; nay, even what may appear the fanciful embellishments of this pastoral. It is a fact well known to the inhabitants of this county, that when a youthful couple conceive a disposition to venture on the voyage of matrimony, with perhaps more of the assurances of the blind...
Strana 131 - Wheyle th' fiddlers they're at wark i'th' leathe, An' thrang they're the fiddle tuning ; Tom Trimmel, Tommy Baxter, Stagg, Nay, hauf-a-scowre they've led in, An' they're a' rozzlin' up their bows To streyke up Cuddy's Weddin' The breyde now on a coppy-stuol Sits down i'th...
Strana 125 - ... the blind goddess, or in plain English, with more love than money, the bridegroom generally engages two or three of his companions to assist him in canvassing round ten or a dozen of the adjacent parishes. where they invite all, indiscriminately, to assemble on such a day, to assist in solemnizing the nuptials of — On the day appointed, which is generally a week or fortnight after the day of invitation, the country people, for many miles round, repair to the house of the young couple, or place...