The Lives of the Scotish Poets: With Preliminary Dissertations on the Literary History of Scotland, and the Early Scotish Drama, Volume 2Alex. Lawrie and Company, 1804 - 506 pages |
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... poetry . The dormant energies of the human mind are at first awakened by external objects . As early at least as the year 1509 he was , on the recommendation of his sovereign , nominated Provost of the Collegiate Church of St Giles in ...
... poetry . The dormant energies of the human mind are at first awakened by external objects . As early at least as the year 1509 he was , on the recommendation of his sovereign , nominated Provost of the Collegiate Church of St Giles in ...
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... Poetry , vol . i . p . 423. ) f Hume's Hist . of the House of Douglas , p . 235 . 5 Buchanan . Rerum Scotic . Hist . p . 255. edit . Ruddiman . which had been secretly concluded without the concurrence of the A 2 3 unquiet by the ...
... Poetry , vol . i . p . 423. ) f Hume's Hist . of the House of Douglas , p . 235 . 5 Buchanan . Rerum Scotic . Hist . p . 255. edit . Ruddiman . which had been secretly concluded without the concurrence of the A 2 3 unquiet by the ...
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... poets . The intimacy of his acquaintance with ancient literature was in that age rarely parallel- ed . His favourites among the heathen poets were apparently Virgil and Ovid : and among the Christian fathers his favourite was St ...
... poets . The intimacy of his acquaintance with ancient literature was in that age rarely parallel- ed . His favourites among the heathen poets were apparently Virgil and Ovid : and among the Christian fathers his favourite was St ...
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... poets . But he has imported many exo- tic terms from another quarter ; his familiarity with the Latin authors betrays itself in almost every page of his writings . His verses , though less smooth and elegant than those of Dunbar , are ...
... poets . But he has imported many exo- tic terms from another quarter ; his familiarity with the Latin authors betrays itself in almost every page of his writings . His verses , though less smooth and elegant than those of Dunbar , are ...
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... poet now betakes himself to a thick co- vert , from which he discovers Actæon pursued by his own dogs , and the court of Diana following at a small distance . The goddess herself is mounted on an elephant , and only attended by the pure ...
... poet now betakes himself to a thick co- vert , from which he discovers Actæon pursued by his own dogs , and the court of Diana following at a small distance . The goddess herself is mounted on an elephant , and only attended by the pure ...
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