A Literary History of ScotlandScribner's Sons, 1903 - 703 Seiten |
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... memoirs - Prose of King James VI . PAGE CHAPTER IV . THE VERSE OF THE REFORMATION : THE BALLADS : THE LAST OF THE " MAKARIS ... Memoir - Writers- - 224 Gilbert Burnet - Patrick Walker - Robert Wodrow- Scottish savants xii CONTENTS.
... memoirs - Prose of King James VI . PAGE CHAPTER IV . THE VERSE OF THE REFORMATION : THE BALLADS : THE LAST OF THE " MAKARIS ... Memoir - Writers- - 224 Gilbert Burnet - Patrick Walker - Robert Wodrow- Scottish savants xii CONTENTS.
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... memoir - writers as regards style are in some respects not essentially dissimilar from those which the reader will have observed in the controversial- ists and divines whom we have been considering . Most of the historians were ...
... memoir - writers as regards style are in some respects not essentially dissimilar from those which the reader will have observed in the controversial- ists and divines whom we have been considering . Most of the historians were ...
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... memoir writers . John Row ( 1568-1646 ) , minister of Carnock , was yet another of those who chose the Kirk for their subject.3 His History of that institution contains a short and useful account of the proceedings of the General ...
... memoir writers . John Row ( 1568-1646 ) , minister of Carnock , was yet another of those who chose the Kirk for their subject.3 His History of that institution contains a short and useful account of the proceedings of the General ...
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... Memoirs of the Affairs of Scotland from the Restoration , which are of considerable utility to the historian ... Memoir , by E. J. G. Mackay , Edin . , 1873 . and of those in high places was not marked off 306 LITERARY HISTORY OF ...
... Memoirs of the Affairs of Scotland from the Restoration , which are of considerable utility to the historian ... Memoir , by E. J. G. Mackay , Edin . , 1873 . and of those in high places was not marked off 306 LITERARY HISTORY OF ...
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... , vol . ix . p . 696 . 3 Carlyle , Autob . , p . 70 . 4 Memoir of Robertson , p . 4 . 5 Autobiographical fragment , apud Lockhart , Life , p . 12 . " His voice was harsh , and stammering . His X THE AUGUSTAN AGE : PROSE 321.
... , vol . ix . p . 696 . 3 Carlyle , Autob . , p . 70 . 4 Memoir of Robertson , p . 4 . 5 Autobiographical fragment , apud Lockhart , Life , p . 12 . " His voice was harsh , and stammering . His X THE AUGUSTAN AGE : PROSE 321.
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Seite 447 - Proud Maisie is in the wood, Walking so early; Sweet Robin sits on the bush, Singing so rarely. '"Tell me, thou bonny bird. When shall I marry me?' 'When six braw gentlemen Kirkward shall carry ye.' '"Who makes the bridal bed, Birdie, say truly?' — 'The grey-headed sexton, That delves the grave duly. "The glow-worm o'er grave and stone Shall light thee steady; The owl from the steeple sing, 'Welcome, proud lady.
Seite 426 - SEE ! the smoking bowl before us, Mark our jovial ragged ring ; Round and round take up the chorus, And in raptures let us sing : CHORUS. A fig for those by law protected ! Liberty's a glorious feast ! Courts for cowards were erected, Churches built to please the priest.
Seite 194 - I wish I were where Helen lies ! Night and day on me she cries ; And I am weary of the skies, For her sake that died for me.
Seite 469 - The Laird made no answer, but continued to look at the figure which was thus perched above his path. " Ride your ways," said the gipsy, " ride your ways, Laird of Ellangowan — ride your ways, Godfrey Bertram ! — This day have ye quenched seven smoking hearths — see if the fire in your ain parlour burn the blither for that. Ye have riven the thack off seven cottar houses — look if your ain roof-tree stand the faster.
Seite 445 - tis at peep of light; His blast is heard at merry morn, And mine at dead of night.
Seite 417 - The warly race may riches chase, An' riches still may fly them, O ; An' tho' at last they catch them fast, Their hearts can ne'er enjoy them, O.
Seite 110 - Cherbury gives an interesting account of the education of a highly-born youth at the end of the sixteenth and the beginning of the seventeenth century.
Seite 326 - Upon the whole, I have always considered him, both in his lifetime and since his death, as approaching as nearly to the idea of a perfectly wise and virtuous man as perhaps the nature of human frailty will permit.
Seite 444 - I'm with my comrades met, Beneath the greenwood bough, What once we were we all forget, Nor think what we are now. CHORUS. " Yet Brignall banks are fresh and fair, And Greta woods are green, And you may gather garlands there Would grace a summer queen.
Seite 446 - Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife ! To all the sensual world proclaim, One crowded hour of glorious life Is worth an age without a name.