Poems, Band 2Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1807 |
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... close to the ground , With hawklike pinion , of a leaden blue . Poor wanderer ! from hedge to hedge she flies , And trusts her offspring to another's care : The sooty - plum'd hedge - sparrow frequent acts The THE ...
... close to the ground , With hawklike pinion , of a leaden blue . Poor wanderer ! from hedge to hedge she flies , And trusts her offspring to another's care : The sooty - plum'd hedge - sparrow frequent acts The THE ...
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... trusts , Trusts to the power of man : fearful , herself She never trusts ; free , the long summer morn , She , at his window , hails the rising sun.- Twice seven days she broods ; then on the wing , From morn to dewy eve , unceasing ...
... trusts , Trusts to the power of man : fearful , herself She never trusts ; free , the long summer morn , She , at his window , hails the rising sun.- Twice seven days she broods ; then on the wing , From morn to dewy eve , unceasing ...
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... trust in heaven , Who moved , inspired the combination grand Of virtues , talents , ranged on mercy's side , Who shuns applause , whose actions are his name . On distant waves , the raven of the sea , The CORMORANT , devours her carrion ...
... trust in heaven , Who moved , inspired the combination grand Of virtues , talents , ranged on mercy's side , Who shuns applause , whose actions are his name . On distant waves , the raven of the sea , The CORMORANT , devours her carrion ...
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... fluttering stoop to try their timorous wings . Mont . I fear her words have nestled in thy heart . Doug . ' Tis even so ; my thoughts are all of her . 6 Montgomery , I will trust thee : --- Oft for SCENE II . 77 QUEEN OF SCOTS .
... fluttering stoop to try their timorous wings . Mont . I fear her words have nestled in thy heart . Doug . ' Tis even so ; my thoughts are all of her . 6 Montgomery , I will trust thee : --- Oft for SCENE II . 77 QUEEN OF SCOTS .
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... Trust me , you but contrive your own dispeace . Beware , while yet ' tis time ; for , though she's humble , The heiress of the noble Count Verneuil , So near allied to the royal house of France , She would disdain a nameless gentleman ...
... Trust me , you but contrive your own dispeace . Beware , while yet ' tis time ; for , though she's humble , The heiress of the noble Count Verneuil , So near allied to the royal house of France , She would disdain a nameless gentleman ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Adel amid arms art thou beauteous behold beneath Bern birds of prey BIRDS OF SCOTLAND boughs breast breath brood castle Cecil Chaffinch clouds CORMORANT crime death Doug Douglas dreadful Eliz Elizabeth Enter Exeunt Exit fair fear feel flies flower fluttering Fran friends Gard Grace Gypsy hand Haste hawthorn hear heard heart Highness hill light Lincluden Lochleven look Lord Hamilton MARY and ADELAIDE Mary Stewart Mont morn ne'er neath nest never night o'er perch Perhaps plumes poor prey prison Queen of Scots rock Rosa round scarce SCENE seen Shep shore sing Sir George Mackenzie smile song soon soul sound speak Stew stream sweet tears tell thee thou thou'rt thought trees trust Tutbury Twas Twill voice Ward Warder waves Wing WINGFIELD wish woods words wretch
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 234 - Doth the eagle mount up at thy command, And make her nest on high ? She dwelleth and abideth on the rock, Upon the crag of the rock, and the strong place. From thence she seeketh the prey, And her eyes behold afar off. Her young ones also suck up blood : And where the slain are, there is she.
Seite 37 - Sometimes in closest thickets 'tis concealed ; Sometimes in hedge luxuriant, where the brier, The bramble, and the plumtree branch, Warp through the thorn, surmounted by the flowers Of climbing vetch, and honeysuckle wild, All undefaced by art's deforming hand.
Seite 240 - During a lingering illness, he discovered the utmost fortitude, and met the approach of death with a magnanimity inseparable from his character. He was constantly employed in acts of devotion, and comforted himself with those prospects of immortality, which not only preserve good men from desponding, but fill them with exultation in their last moments.
Seite 209 - The unfeeling school-boy. Hence, around the head, Of wandering swain, the white-winged plover wheels Her sounding flight, and then directly on In long excursion skims the level lawn, To tempt him from her nest.
Seite 5 - The daisied lea he loves, where tufts of grass Luxuriant crown the ridge ; there, with his mate, He founds their lowly house, of withered bents, And coarsest speargrass ; next, the inner work With finer and still finer fibres lays, Rounding it curious with his speckled breast.
Seite 27 - Her thirsty bill, dipt in the babbling brook, Then silently, on tip-toe raised, look in, Admire : five cupless acorns, darkly specked, Delight the eye, warm to the cautious touch. In seven days more expect the fledgeless young, . • • Five gaping bills. With busy wing, and eye Quick-darting, all alert, the parent pair , Gather the sustenance which heaven bestows. But music ceases, save at dewy fall Of eve, when, nestling o'er her brood, the dam Has stilled them all to rest ; or at the hour Of...
Seite 239 - He was acquainted too with the learning cultivated among divines in that age, and excelled in that species of eloquence which is calculated to rouse and to inflame. His maxims, however, were often too severe, and the impetuosity of his temper excessive. Rigid and uncomplying himself, he shewed no indulgence to the infirmities of others.
Seite 237 - The beauties of her person and graces of her air combined to make her the most amiable of women, and the charms of her address and conversation aided the impression which her lovely figure made on the hearts of all beholders.
Seite 4 - Thou, simple bird, Of all the vocal quire, dwell'st in a home The humblest ; yet thy morning song ascends Nearest to heaven,— sweet emblem of his song,* Who sung thee wakening by the daisy's side ! With earliest spring, while yet the wheaten blade...
Seite 241 - Ballanden, his servant, holding up the other oxter (armpit) from the abbey to the parish kirk, and, by the said Richard and another servant, lifted up to the pulpit where he behoved to lean at his first entry ; but ere he had done with his sermon, he was so active and vigorous that he was like to ding the pulpit in blads (splinters) and fly out of it.