The Contemporaries of Burns, and the More Recent Poets of Ayrshire: With Selections from Their WritingsJames Paterson H. Paton, 1840 - 440 Seiten |
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Seite 66 - Her moors red-brown wi' heather bells, Her banks an' braes, her dens an' dells, Where glorious Wallace Aft bure the gree, as story tells, Frae Southron billies. At Wallace' name, what Scottish blood But boils up in a spring-tide flood ! Oft have our fearless fathers strode By Wallace' side, Still pressing onward, red-wat-shod, Or glorious died.
Seite 368 - No more to sigh, or shed the bitter tear, Together hymning their Creator's praise, In such society, yet still more dear ; While circling Time moves round in an eternal sphere. Compared with this, how poor Religion's pride, In all the pomp of method, and of art, When men display to congregations wide Devotion's ev'ry grace, except the heart...
Seite 170 - Delightful task ! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot, . To pour the fresh instruction o'er the mind, To breathe th' enlivening spirit and to fix The generous purpose in the glowing breast.
Seite 173 - O my soul, come not thou into their secret; unto their assembly, mine honour, be not thou united! For in their anger they slew a man, and in their self-will they digged down a wall. Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce, and their wrath, for it was cruel. I will divide them in Jacob and scatter them in Israel.
Seite 113 - I was bred up at nae sic school, My shepherd lad, to play the fool, And a' the day to sit in dool, And naebody to see me.
Seite 24 - But only gie us change o' bliss. Hae I a wish ? it's a' for thee ; I ken thy wish is me to please ; Our moments pass sae smooth away, That numbers on us look and gaze. Weel pleased they see our happy days, Nor envy's sel' finds aught to blame ; And aye when weary cares arise, Thy bosom still shall be my hame.
Seite 113 - Ca' the yowes to the knowes, Ca' them where the heather grows, Ca' them where the burnie rows, My bonie dearie.
Seite 40 - I recollect hearing his neighbours observe, he had a great deal to say for himself, and that they suspected his principles. He wore the only tied hair in the parish ; and in the church, his plaid, which was of a particular colour, I think fillemot, he wrapped in a particular manner round his shoulders.
Seite 306 - This did not prevent his being a terribly proud aristocrat ; and great was the contempt he entertained and expressed for his son James, for the nature of his friendships and the character of the personages of whom he was engoue one after another. " There's nae hope for Jamie, mon,
Seite 262 - That while a lassie she had worn, In longitude tho' sorely scanty, It was her best, and she was vauntie. — Ah...