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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Strana 51
... of unintelligible en- thusiastic bombast . ( 2 ) Vide Mr. Arbuckle's Poem on Snuff . ( 3 ) Having been in his native Ireland , visiting his friends . And frae pure dulness are malicious , Terming ilk turn TO MR . JAMES ARBUCKLE . 51.
... of unintelligible en- thusiastic bombast . ( 2 ) Vide Mr. Arbuckle's Poem on Snuff . ( 3 ) Having been in his native Ireland , visiting his friends . And frae pure dulness are malicious , Terming ilk turn TO MR . JAMES ARBUCKLE . 51.
Strana 59
... native flow'ry green and crystal strands , Appear the labours of ingenious hands . Most happy he who can these sweets enjoy With taste refin'd , which does not easy cloy . Not so plebeian souls , whom sporting fate Thrusts into life ...
... native flow'ry green and crystal strands , Appear the labours of ingenious hands . Most happy he who can these sweets enjoy With taste refin'd , which does not easy cloy . Not so plebeian souls , whom sporting fate Thrusts into life ...
Strana 61
... meal ; But let your resolution still prevail : Return , before your pleasure grow a toil , To longing friends , and your own native soil : Preserve your health , your virtue still improve , Hence F 3 TO A FRIEND AT FLORENCE . 61.
... meal ; But let your resolution still prevail : Return , before your pleasure grow a toil , To longing friends , and your own native soil : Preserve your health , your virtue still improve , Hence F 3 TO A FRIEND AT FLORENCE . 61.
Strana 64
... native trusty friend of mine Sae brawly ' mang our bleezing billies shine . Yes , wherefore no , shaw them the frozen north Can tow'ring minds with heav'nly heat bring forth : Minds that can mount with an uncommon wing , And frae black ...
... native trusty friend of mine Sae brawly ' mang our bleezing billies shine . Yes , wherefore no , shaw them the frozen north Can tow'ring minds with heav'nly heat bring forth : Minds that can mount with an uncommon wing , And frae black ...
Strana 91
... native lustre and intrinsic worth . To follow nature is by rules to write , She led the way and taught the Stagyrite : From her the critic's taste , the poet's fire , Both drudge in vain till she from heav'n inspire . By the same guide ...
... native lustre and intrinsic worth . To follow nature is by rules to write , She led the way and taught the Stagyrite : From her the critic's taste , the poet's fire , Both drudge in vain till she from heav'n inspire . By the same guide ...
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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.