The Leading Poets of Scotland: From Early TimesSimpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Company, 1891 - 314 sider |
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... Dumfries , April 25th , 1876. Educated at the Parish School of Bowden , Aird early evinced a striking love for literature . In 1816 his tutors considered him sufficiently advanced to proceed to the University at Edinburgh . There he ...
... Dumfries , April 25th , 1876. Educated at the Parish School of Bowden , Aird early evinced a striking love for literature . In 1816 his tutors considered him sufficiently advanced to proceed to the University at Edinburgh . There he ...
Side 22
... Dumfries by the Burns Club , and in 1859 took an active part in organising the celebration of Burns ' centenary . In 1871 he presided at Dumfries at the banquet given in honour of the centenary of Sir W. Scott . In 1878 Aird's poems ...
... Dumfries by the Burns Club , and in 1859 took an active part in organising the celebration of Burns ' centenary . In 1871 he presided at Dumfries at the banquet given in honour of the centenary of Sir W. Scott . In 1878 Aird's poems ...
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... latter days , when the Dumfries gentry held aloof from the poet . Lockhart's Life of Burns . 3. - A heap of grain enclosed or bordered off , See JOANNA BAILLIE , 1762-1851 . BY GEORGE BARNETT SMITH , 42 THE POETS OF SCOTLAND .
... latter days , when the Dumfries gentry held aloof from the poet . Lockhart's Life of Burns . 3. - A heap of grain enclosed or bordered off , See JOANNA BAILLIE , 1762-1851 . BY GEORGE BARNETT SMITH , 42 THE POETS OF SCOTLAND .
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... Dumfries- shire , on the 25th of June , 1812. At the age of sixteen he left his birthplace and went to London , where he was employed in one of the mercantile houses in the City . When he was twenty - five , he entered into partnership ...
... Dumfries- shire , on the 25th of June , 1812. At the age of sixteen he left his birthplace and went to London , where he was employed in one of the mercantile houses in the City . When he was twenty - five , he entered into partnership ...
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... Dumfries , and lived with a Mr. McMurdo , who had married his sister ; he afterwards returned to Edinburgh to study at the university . In 1746 he had published an octavo volume of poems . A second edition of these was published in the ...
... Dumfries , and lived with a Mr. McMurdo , who had married his sister ; he afterwards returned to Edinburgh to study at the university . In 1746 he had published an octavo volume of poems . A second edition of these was published in the ...
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Side 117 - On Linden, when the sun was low, All bloodless lay the untrodden snow ; And dark as winter was the flow Of Iser, rolling rapidly. But Linden saw another sight, When the drum beat at dead of night, Commanding fires of death to light The darkness of her scenery.
Side 271 - So stately his form, and so lovely her face, That never a hall such a galliard did grace; While her mother did fret, and her father did fume, And the bridegroom stood dangling his bonnet and plume; And the bride-maidens whispered, " Twere better by far To have matched our fair cousin with young Lochinvar.
Side 105 - They chant their artless notes in simple guise; They tune their hearts, by far the noblest aim : Perhaps ' Dundee's ' wild warbling measures rise, Or plaintive *• Martyrs...
Side 103 - But hark ! a rap comes gently to the door ; Jenny, wha kens the meaning o' the same, Tells how a neebor lad cam' o'er the moor, To do some errands, and convoy her hame. The wily mother sees the conscious flame Sparkle in Jenny's e'e, and flush her cheek...
Side 107 - ... bosom sunward spread, Thou lifts thy unassuming head In humble guise ; But now the share uptears thy bed, And low thou lies ! Such is the fate of artless maid, Sweet flow'ret of the rural shade ! By love's simplicity betray'd, And guileless trust, Till she, like thee, all soil'd is laid Low i
Side 271 - mong Graemes of the Netherby clan ; Forsters, Fenwicks, and Musgraves, they rode and they ran : There was racing and chasing on Cannobie Lee, But the lost bride of Netherby ne'er did they see.
Side 275 - But, present, still though now unseen, When brightly shines the prosperous day! Be thoughts of Thee a cloudy screen, To temper the deceitful ray. And O, when stoops on Judah's path In shade and storm the frequent night. Be Thou, long-suffering, slow to wrath, A burning and a shining light!
Side 270 - O, young Lochinvar is come out of the west, Through all the wide Border his steed was the best ; And save his good broad-sword he weapons had none, He rode all unarm'd, and he rode all alone.
Side 104 - The sire turns o'er, wi' patriarchal grace, The big ha' Bible, ance his father's pride. His bonnet rev'rently is laid aside, His lyart haffets wearing thin an' bare ; Those strains that once did sweet in Zion glide, He wales a portion with judicious care ; And " Let us worship God !
Side 115 - I'm the chief of Ulva's isle, And this Lord Ullin's daughter. — And fast before her father's men Three days we've fled together, For should he find us in the glen, My blood would stain the heather. His horsemen hard behind us ride ; Should they our steps discover...