The poetical works of Robert Fergusson, with biogr intr., notes and glossary by R. Ford1773 |
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... playing Yesterday Forenoon , prior to Brown's and Wilson's Execution , on the Deacons being presented to Council , On Seeing a Lady Paint Herself , Extempore on seeing Stanzas addressed to Mrs. Hartley , the Actress , wherein she is ...
... playing Yesterday Forenoon , prior to Brown's and Wilson's Execution , on the Deacons being presented to Council , On Seeing a Lady Paint Herself , Extempore on seeing Stanzas addressed to Mrs. Hartley , the Actress , wherein she is ...
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... play- ing tricks with his pious mother . His High School master , Mr. John Gilchrist , is described by Henry Mackenzie , " The Man of Feeling , " as " a good- humoured person with a good deal of comedy about him . " FERGUSSON , no doubt ...
... play- ing tricks with his pious mother . His High School master , Mr. John Gilchrist , is described by Henry Mackenzie , " The Man of Feeling , " as " a good- humoured person with a good deal of comedy about him . " FERGUSSON , no doubt ...
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... play which he meditated writing . To the extent of two acts , he had written besides a tragedy founded on the achievements and fate of Sir William Wallace , but abandoned the scheme on learning of another play on the same subject ...
... play which he meditated writing . To the extent of two acts , he had written besides a tragedy founded on the achievements and fate of Sir William Wallace , but abandoned the scheme on learning of another play on the same subject ...
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... play , and lambies sport , On gowany braes ; Where peerless Fancy hauds her court , And tunes her lays . THE DAFT DAYS . * Now mirk December's dowie face Glowers owre the rigs wi ' sour grimace , While , through his minimum o ' space ...
... play , and lambies sport , On gowany braes ; Where peerless Fancy hauds her court , And tunes her lays . THE DAFT DAYS . * Now mirk December's dowie face Glowers owre the rigs wi ' sour grimace , While , through his minimum o ' space ...
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... plays , Her e'enin ' stent reels she as weel's the lave . On some feast - day , the wee things buskit braw , Shall heeze her heart up wi ' a silent joy , Fu ' cadgie that her head was up and saw Her ain spun cleedin ' on a darling oye ...
... plays , Her e'enin ' stent reels she as weel's the lave . On some feast - day , the wee things buskit braw , Shall heeze her heart up wi ' a silent joy , Fu ' cadgie that her head was up and saw Her ain spun cleedin ' on a darling oye ...
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Página 151 - O ! who can hold a fire in his hand By thinking on the frosty Caucasus? Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite By bare imagination of a feast?
Página 213 - Where be your gibes now ? your gambols ? your songs ? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table in a roar ? Not one now, to mock your own grinning?
Página 14 - The spinsters and the knitters in the sun, And the free maids that weave their thread with bones, Do use to chant it ; it is silly sooth, And dallies with the innocence of love, Like the old age.
Página 12 - Gude faith, he mauna fa' that! For a' that, an' a' that, Their dignities an' a' that, The pith o' sense, an' pride o' worth. Are higher rank 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. Shall bear the gree, an' a' that. For a
Página xi - CURSE on ungrateful man, that can be pleas'd, And yet can starve the author of the pleasure ! O thou, my elder brother in misfortune, By far my elder brother in the Muses...
Página 191 - When you censure the age, Be cautious and sage, Lest the courtiers offended, should be ; If you mention vice or bribe, 'Tis so pat to all the tribe, Each cries — That was levelld at me.
Página 9 - HAPPY the man who, void of cares and strife, In silken or in leathern purse retains A Splendid Shilling.
Página 13 - While he draws breath, Till his four quarters are bedeckit Wi' gude Braid Claith. On Sabbath-days the barber spark, Whan he has done wi...
Página xlix - No sculptured marble here, nor pompous lay, ' No storied urn nor animated bust ;' This simple stone directs pale Scotia's way To pour her sorrows o'er her poet's dust.
Página 59 - Had met wi' sic respect frae me. Mind ye what Sam,' the lying loun ! Has in his Dictionar laid down ? That aits in England are a feast To cow an' horse, an' sican beast, While in Scots ground this growth was common To gust the gab o