Literary Amusements: In Verse and ProseJ. Dodsley, 1787 - 76 Seiten |
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... eye fuppofed to fee better with the other ? This is miferable reafoning , I con- fefs ; but though it cannot produce convic- tion , it may raife a laugh ; and your only way of efcaping out of a foolith dilemma , is by an an impertinent ...
... eye fuppofed to fee better with the other ? This is miferable reafoning , I con- fefs ; but though it cannot produce convic- tion , it may raife a laugh ; and your only way of efcaping out of a foolith dilemma , is by an an impertinent ...
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... eyes full of tears for thy friends , whom the mist of the hill had concealed ! Thee I would comfort , my love , and bring thee to thy father's houfe . BUT is it fhe that there appears , like a beam of light on the heath ? bright as រ ...
... eyes full of tears for thy friends , whom the mist of the hill had concealed ! Thee I would comfort , my love , and bring thee to thy father's houfe . BUT is it fhe that there appears , like a beam of light on the heath ? bright as រ ...
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... eye over my tomb , and beat thy breast of fighs . Though fair thou art , my love , as the light ; more pleasant than the gale of the hill ; yet I will not stay . Raise my tomb , Crimora . CRIMORA . THEN give me those arms of light ...
... eye over my tomb , and beat thy breast of fighs . Though fair thou art , my love , as the light ; more pleasant than the gale of the hill ; yet I will not stay . Raise my tomb , Crimora . CRIMORA . THEN give me those arms of light ...
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... eyes , a furnace of fire . Louder than a ftorm was thy voice , when thou confoundedft the field . Warriors fell by thy fword , as the thistle by the staff of a boy . DARGO the mighty came on , like a cloud of thunder . contracted and ...
... eyes , a furnace of fire . Louder than a ftorm was thy voice , when thou confoundedft the field . Warriors fell by thy fword , as the thistle by the staff of a boy . DARGO the mighty came on , like a cloud of thunder . contracted and ...
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... eye : but forrow was big in her heart . FINGAL renowned in war ! fhe cries , fons of the king , preferve me ! Speak fecure , replies the king , daughter of beauty , fpeak : our ear is open to all our fwords redrefs the injured . I fly ...
... eye : but forrow was big in her heart . FINGAL renowned in war ! fhe cries , fons of the king , preferve me ! Speak fecure , replies the king , daughter of beauty , fpeak : our ear is open to all our fwords redrefs the injured . I fly ...
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abfolute Adieu againſt almoſt anſwer auffi becauſe beſt bien breaft c'eft called cauſe CHER confequence confiderable Connal courfe CRIMORA Dargo daughter Daura deferves defire Dermid diſtinguiſh Engliſh eſtabliſhed étui expreffion faid fair fait fame faut Fear-comhraic fenfe feven fhall fhield fhould filks Fingal firſt flain Florus fnow fome foon foul fpeak friends ftones ftorm ftream fubject fucceeded fuch fure fword good-breeding Goths greateſt happineſs heath hill himſelf Hippomenes homme Houſe King laft Lamderg language laſt learning leaſt LETTER DEAR BOY maid Maittaire Manners moft MORNA moſt muft Muirnin muſt myſelf neceffary obferve Ofcian Ofcur paffion Perfia perfon pleafing pleaſe pleaſure praiſe prefent profe qu'il raiſe reft rife rock Romans Ronnan Seventeen Provinces ſhall ſhe Shilric Spain ſpeak ſtyle thee thefe themſelves theſe thing thofe thoſe thou thought thouſand tomb tout uſe verfes voice wind yourſelf
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Seite 16 - Of law there can be no less acknowledged, than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world ; all things in heaven and earth do her homage, the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power...
Seite 53 - RYNO The wind and the rain are past: calm is the noon of day. The clouds are divided in heaven. Over the green hills flies the inconstant sun. Red through the stony vale comes down the stream of the hill. Sweet are thy murmurs, O stream! but more sweet is the voice I hear. It is the voice of Alpin, the son of song, mourning for the dead!
Seite 51 - ALONE, on the sea-beat rock, my daughter was heard to complain. Frequent and loud were her cries. What could her father do? All night I stood on the shore. I saw her by the faint beam of the moon.
Seite v - Epifodes of a greater Work which related to the Wars of Fingal, Concerning this Hero innumerable Traditions remain, to this Day, in the Highlands of Scotland. The...
Seite 55 - A tree with scarce a leaf, long grass which whistles in the wind, mark to the hunter's eye the grave of the mighty Morar.
Seite 21 - Connal ? and who recount thy fathers ? Thy family grew like an oak on the mountain, which meeteth the wind with its lofty head. But now it is torn from the earth.
Seite 8 - This is robbery. The second by commerce, which is generally cheating. The third by agriculture, the only honest way, wherein man receives a real increase of the seed thrown into the ground, in a kind of continual miracle...
Seite vii - It is believed, that, by a careful inquiry, many more remains of ancient genius, no lefs valuable than thofe now given to the world, might .be found in the fame country where thefe have been collected.
Seite 47 - Close it not till Colma come. My life flies away like a dream! why should I stay behind?
Seite 24 - Oscian, prince of men! what tears run down the cheeks of age? what shades thy mighty soul? Memory, son of Alpin, memory wounds the aged. Of former times are my thoughts; my thoughts are of the noble Fingal.