The modern Scottish minstrel; or, The songs of Scotland of the past half century, with memoirs of the poets, and specimens in English verse of modern Gaelic bards, by C. Rogers, Volume 3Charles Rogers 1856 |
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Pagina xv
... pleasures ; and we have several good songs suitable for singing at the close of an evening pleasantly spent , but almost none which express the feelings that naturally well - up when one sees his friends around him , becomes exhilarated ...
... pleasures ; and we have several good songs suitable for singing at the close of an evening pleasantly spent , but almost none which express the feelings that naturally well - up when one sees his friends around him , becomes exhilarated ...
Pagina xvi
... pleasures to God . The words , for instance , which Allan Cunningham puts into the mouth of a Covenanter , " I hae sworn by my God , my Jeanie " ( p . 17 of this volume ) , would still be regarded by many people as profane . The case ...
... pleasures to God . The words , for instance , which Allan Cunningham puts into the mouth of a Covenanter , " I hae sworn by my God , my Jeanie " ( p . 17 of this volume ) , would still be regarded by many people as profane . The case ...
Pagina xx
... pleasure in the contemplation of the actual things around us , is not nearly so great in modern cultivated minds . We are continually trying to get out of our- selves , to transport ourselves to other times , and to throw ourselves into ...
... pleasure in the contemplation of the actual things around us , is not nearly so great in modern cultivated minds . We are continually trying to get out of our- selves , to transport ourselves to other times , and to throw ourselves into ...
Pagina xxii
... pleasure ; but his descriptions are not nicely shaded , minute , or calculated to bring the landscape before the ... pleasures , pursuits , and hopes - than in all the insentient things on the face of the earth ; and conse- quently he ...
... pleasure ; but his descriptions are not nicely shaded , minute , or calculated to bring the landscape before the ... pleasures , pursuits , and hopes - than in all the insentient things on the face of the earth ; and conse- quently he ...
Pagina 21
... pleasure roamin ' , And found the world a wilderness , Without thee , lovely woman ! The farmer reaps his golden fields , The merchant sweeps the ocean ; The soldier's steed , gore - fetlock'd , snorts Through war - field's wild ...
... pleasure roamin ' , And found the world a wilderness , Without thee , lovely woman ! The farmer reaps his golden fields , The merchant sweeps the ocean ; The soldier's steed , gore - fetlock'd , snorts Through war - field's wild ...
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