The works of Allen Ramsay. With life of the author by G. Chalmers; an essay on his genius and writings by lord Woodhouselee, and appendix, Zväzok 31851 |
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... merit meets reward , And thus they share the pleasure of another ; While little minds , who only self regard , Will sicken at the success of a brother . Hence I am pleas'd to find myself right class'd , Even by this mark , that's worthy ...
... merit meets reward , And thus they share the pleasure of another ; While little minds , who only self regard , Will sicken at the success of a brother . Hence I am pleas'd to find myself right class'd , Even by this mark , that's worthy ...
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... merit of Ramsay , we think the superiority may be justly awarded to the Ayrshire poet . His verses are characterised by an easy flow of composition , not possessed by those of Auld Reekie's much - famed bard . In 1722 , Lieut . Hamilton ...
... merit of Ramsay , we think the superiority may be justly awarded to the Ayrshire poet . His verses are characterised by an easy flow of composition , not possessed by those of Auld Reekie's much - famed bard . In 1722 , Lieut . Hamilton ...
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... merit , Be to my friend auspicious soon , And cherish ay sae fine a spirit . ( 2 ) [ * " Who can fail to trace in these lines , " says the writer of the article on Hamilton of Gilbertfield , in The Scottish Journal of Topogra- phy ...
... merit , Be to my friend auspicious soon , And cherish ay sae fine a spirit . ( 2 ) [ * " Who can fail to trace in these lines , " says the writer of the article on Hamilton of Gilbertfield , in The Scottish Journal of Topogra- phy ...
Strana 52
... merit conscious , He's in the wrang , when prais'd , that glunshes . Thirdly , not tether'd to connection , But rattling by inspir'd direction , Whenever fame , with voice like thunder , Sets up a chield a warld's wonder Either for ...
... merit conscious , He's in the wrang , when prais'd , that glunshes . Thirdly , not tether'd to connection , But rattling by inspir'd direction , Whenever fame , with voice like thunder , Sets up a chield a warld's wonder Either for ...
Strana 57
... , Sir , pains may be spar'd Your merit to set forth , When there's sae few wha claim regard , That disna ken your worth . Yet poets give immortal fame To mortals that excel , III . F TO MR . AIKMAN . 57 To Mr Aikman,
... , Sir , pains may be spar'd Your merit to set forth , When there's sae few wha claim regard , That disna ken your worth . Yet poets give immortal fame To mortals that excel , III . F TO MR . AIKMAN . 57 To Mr Aikman,
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The works of Allen Ramsay. With life of the author by G. Chalmers ..., Zväzok 1 Allan Ramsay Úplné zobrazenie - 1851 |
The works of Allen Ramsay. With life of the author by G. Chalmers ..., Zväzok 2 Allan Ramsay Úplné zobrazenie - 1851 |
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Strana 221 - The water fa's, and maks a singand din : A pool breast-deep, beneath as clear as glass, Kisses with easy whirles the bord'ring grass. We'll end our washing while the morning's cool ; And when the day grows het, we'll to the pool, There wash oursells ; 'tis healthfu' now in May, And sweetly cauler on sae warm a day.
Strana 221 - Or this other, a perfect domestic picture ? — " While Peggy laces up her bosom fair, Wi' a blue snood Jenny binds up her hair ; Glaud by a morning ingle takes a beek, The rising sun shines motty through the reek ; .A pipe his mouth, the lasses please his een, And now and then a joke maun intervene.
Strana 203 - ... and closes on each side of the way, wherein are gentlemen's houses, much fairer than the buildings in the High Street, for in the High Street...
Strana 78 - I own for me I never heard a better jest. Pope well describ'd an ombre game, And king revenging captive queen ; He merits, but had won more fame, If author of your
Strana 328 - Bards wrote, we had not yet made Use of imported Trimming upon our Cloaths, nor of foreign Embroidery in our Writings. Their Poetry is the Product of their own Country, not pilfered and spoiled in the Transportation from abroad : Their Images are native, and their Landskips domestick ; copied from those Fields and Meadows we every Day behold.
Strana 327 - When these good old Bards wrote, we had not yet made use of imported trimming upon our cloaths, nor of foreign embroidery in our writings.
Strana 328 - The morning rises (in the Poet's description) as she does in the Scottish horizon. We are not carried to Greece or Italy for a shade, a stream, or a breeze. The groves rise in our own valleys; the rivers flow from our own fountains, and the winds blow upon our own hills.
Strana 328 - Description) as she does in the Scottish Horizon. We are not carried to Greece or Italy for a Shade, a Stream or a Breeze. The Groves rise in our own Valleys; the Rivers flow from our own Fountains, and the Winds blow upon our own Hills. I find not Fault with those Things, as they are in Greece or Italy. But with a Northern Poet for fetching his Materials from these Places, in a Poem, of which his own Country is the Scene; as our Hymners to the Spring and Makers of Pastorals frequently do.
Strana 328 - There is nothing can be heard more silly than one's expressing his Ignorance of his native Language ; yet such there are, who can vaunt of acquiring a tolerable Perfection in the French or Italian Tongues, if they have been a Forthnight in Paris or a Month in Rome: But shew them the most elegant Thoughts in a Scots Dress, they as disdainfully as stupidly condemn it as barbarous.
Strana 193 - Gae spread my fame, And fix me an immortal name ; Ages to come shall thee revive, And gar thee with new honours live. The future critics, I foresee. Shall have their notes on notes on thee ; The wits unborn shall beauties find, That never entered in my mind.