A Literary History of ScotlandScribner's Sons, 1903 - 703 Seiten |
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... moral , that it is meant for an allegory of the salvation of the human soul . Henryson was , indeed , prone to moralising - one of the literary vices of his time . The contrast between youth and age : - " O yowth , be glaid into thy ...
... moral , that it is meant for an allegory of the salvation of the human soul . Henryson was , indeed , prone to moralising - one of the literary vices of his time . The contrast between youth and age : - " O yowth , be glaid into thy ...
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... moral and reflective poems the most im- pressive and beautiful is his celebrated Lament for the Makaris quhen he was seik.2 The text is no new one , but rarely has a better sermon been preached upon it . The poet begins by telling us ...
... moral and reflective poems the most im- pressive and beautiful is his celebrated Lament for the Makaris quhen he was seik.2 The text is no new one , but rarely has a better sermon been preached upon it . The poet begins by telling us ...
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... moral of his experience . The latter - a reply to a poem which has perished -is an outspoken remonstrance with the King on his irregular life . Live more carefully , or you will ruin your health and vigour , is its very sensible burden ...
... moral of his experience . The latter - a reply to a poem which has perished -is an outspoken remonstrance with the King on his irregular life . Live more carefully , or you will ruin your health and vigour , is its very sensible burden ...
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... moral of the piece is , that preferment in the Church should be bestowed upon suitable and deserving people . As much trouble should be taken by kings in the selection of bishops and priests , as they take in the choice of their chefs ...
... moral of the piece is , that preferment in the Church should be bestowed upon suitable and deserving people . As much trouble should be taken by kings in the selection of bishops and priests , as they take in the choice of their chefs ...
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... moral cast ; and , though it may not be of surpassing merit , some passages , like the concluding sentences which we here quote , are not without a fine feeling and worthy expression of their own : - " He suld als forgyf al kynd of man ...
... moral cast ; and , though it may not be of surpassing merit , some passages , like the concluding sentences which we here quote , are not without a fine feeling and worthy expression of their own : - " He suld als forgyf al kynd of man ...
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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.