The Poems of William Dunbar, Now First Collected: With Notes, and a Memoir of His Life, Band 1

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Laing and Forbes, 1834 - 325 Seiten
 

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Seite ix - The Evergreen. Being a Collection of Scots Poems, Wrote by the Ingenious before 1600.
Seite ix - Chronicle of Scottish Poetry ; from the 13th Century to the Union of the Crowns.
Seite 184 - Or fum hes done him confort kyth : Lord God, how fall I governe me ! 10 Gife I be forrowfull and fad, Than will thay fay that I am mad, I do...
Seite 253 - I walk, I turne, sleip may I nocht, I vexit am with havie thocht; This warld all ouir I cast about, And ay the mair I am in dout, The mair that I remeid have socht.
Seite 49 - Muses has been justly raised to a level with Chaucer by every judge of poetry, to whom his obsolete language has not rendered him unintelligible. In brilliancy of fancy, in force of description, in the power of conveying moral precepts with terseness, and marking lessons of life with conciseness and energy, in quickness of satire, and in poignancy of humour, the Northern Maker may boldly aspire to rival the Bard of Woodstock. In the pathetic, Dunbar is Chaucer's inferior, and accordingly in most...
Seite 219 - In to thair myndis it makis thame to vary ; In fals vane glory thai so drunkin ar, Thair wit is went, of wo thai ar nocht war, Quhill that all wirchip away be fro thame gone, Fame, guddis, and strenth ; quhairfoir weill say I dar, 9 5 All luve is lost bot upone God allone.
Seite 3 - Amang the tendir odouris reid and quhyt, Quhois armony to heir it wes delyt ; In bed at morrow, sleiping as I lay, Me thocht Aurora, with hir cristall ene, In at the window lukit by the day...
Seite 11 - Hir cristall teris I saw hyng on the flouris Quhilk he for lufe all drank up with his hete.
Seite 65 - Quhen that the sound of his saw sinkis in my eris, 115 Than ay renewis my noy, or he be neir cumand: Quhen I heir nemmyt his name, than mak I nyne crocis, To keip me fra the cummerans of that carll mangit, That full of eldnyng is and anger and all evill thewis.
Seite 3 - Slugird, scho said, awalk annone for schame, And in my honour sum thing thow go wryt ; The lark hes done the mirry day proclame, To raise up luvaris with confort and delyt Yit nocht incressis thy curage to indyt ; Quhois hairt sum tyme hes glaid and blisfull bene, Sangis to mak undir the levis grene. Quhairto...

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