The History of Scotish PoetryEdmonston and Douglas, 1861 - 619 pages |
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Aberdeen afterwards Alexander ancient Andrews appears Bishop Bishop Percy century church Complaynt of Scotland composition court curious David Irving doth Douglas Drummond Duke of Albany Dunbar Earl Edinb Edinburgh edit English Poetry entitled French Freyr greit gude haue Hist honour Irving John King James king's Kirk lady Langholm language Latin learned likewise Lindsay Lindsay's Lond Lord maid mair maist mentioned minstrels mony nocht original Parliaments of Scotland passage Peerage of Scotland period Picts Pinkerton's poem poet poetical prince printed Psalms published Queen quha quhair Quhat Quhen quhilk quod remarks rhyme Robert Robert Henryson romance sall scho Scot Scotish Scotish poets Scotland Scotorum Sir David Lindsay song specimen stanzas suld supposed thair thame thay thee thocht Thomas thou thow tion translation Tristrem tyme verses versification wald Wallace weill William writer written
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Page 350 - So on he fares, and to the border comes Of Eden, where delicious Paradise, Now nearer, crowns with her enclosure green, As with a rural mound, the champain head Of a steep wilderness, whose hairy sides With thicket overgrown, grotesque and wild, Access denied...
Page xvi - IRVING (DAVID). The lives of the Scotish poets, with preliminary dissertations on the literary history of Scotland, and the early Scotish drama.
Page 545 - With swifter speed declines than erst it spread, And, blasted, scarce now shows what it hath been.
Page 350 - Which to our general sire gave prospect large Into his nether empire neighbouring round : And higher than that wall a circling row Of goodliest trees, loaden with fairest fruit, Blossoms and fruits at once of golden hue...
Page 214 - I mend the fyre and beikit me about, Than tuik ane drink, my spreitis to comfort, And armit me weill fra the cauld thairout. To cut the winter nicht and mak it schort I tuik ane quair - and left all uther sport Writtin be worthie Chaucer glorious Of fair Creisseid and worthie Troylus.
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Page 565 - I'd weep the world to such a strain As it should deluge once again ; But since thy loud-tongued blood demands supplies More from Briareus' hands than Argus' eyes, I'll sing thy obsequies with trumpet sounds, And write thy epitaph with blood and wounds.
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Page 557 - 11 neither grieve nor yet rejoice, To see him gain what I have lost; The height of my disdain shall be, To laugh at him, to blush for thee; To love thee still, but go no more A begging to a beggar's door.