A Literary History of ScotlandScribner's Sons, 1903 - 703 Seiten |
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... scarcely , however , be said that for the opinions hereinafter expressed these gentle- men are as little responsible as they are for any blunders in fact or any slips of the press which may be detected in the course of perusal . As ...
... scarcely , however , be said that for the opinions hereinafter expressed these gentle- men are as little responsible as they are for any blunders in fact or any slips of the press which may be detected in the course of perusal . As ...
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... scarcely be said , was infinitely more accomplished than such persons . But , when alliteration is the trick of the craft , the craftsman becomes even more tied down than in dealing with rhyme to formulæ , to strings of epithets , to ...
... scarcely be said , was infinitely more accomplished than such persons . But , when alliteration is the trick of the craft , the craftsman becomes even more tied down than in dealing with rhyme to formulæ , to strings of epithets , to ...
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... scarcely be conceived than that presented by those of his contemporary and contemporary and fellow - auditor of Exchequer , John Barbour ( 1316-96 ) , Archdeacon of Aberdeen . Mr. Neilson , indeed , finds traces in Barbour's work of the ...
... scarcely be conceived than that presented by those of his contemporary and contemporary and fellow - auditor of Exchequer , John Barbour ( 1316-96 ) , Archdeacon of Aberdeen . Mr. Neilson , indeed , finds traces in Barbour's work of the ...
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... scarcely possible to doubt , is Peblis to the Play . The style and tone of that amusing piece are , indeed , vastly different from those of The Kingis Quair . Hence many competent 1 The Kingis Quair , stt . 189-93 . 2 The opening line ...
... scarcely possible to doubt , is Peblis to the Play . The style and tone of that amusing piece are , indeed , vastly different from those of The Kingis Quair . Hence many competent 1 The Kingis Quair , stt . 189-93 . 2 The opening line ...
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... Scarcely inferior to this excellent fable are the Wolf and the Lamb , Schir Chantecleir and the Foxe , and The Tod's Confession to Freir Wolf , a little masterpiece of trenchant , but not bad- tempered , satire . The fox is bidden by ...
... Scarcely inferior to this excellent fable are the Wolf and the Lamb , Schir Chantecleir and the Foxe , and The Tod's Confession to Freir Wolf , a little masterpiece of trenchant , but not bad- tempered , satire . The fox is bidden by ...
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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.