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... three guineas for the copyright ! The other three seasons followed before the author was thirty years of age . ROBERT FERGUSSON ( 1750-1774 ) was born in Edinburgh , and was a delicate child . He was educated in 28 YOUNG POETS .
... three guineas for the copyright ! The other three seasons followed before the author was thirty years of age . ROBERT FERGUSSON ( 1750-1774 ) was born in Edinburgh , and was a delicate child . He was educated in 28 YOUNG POETS .
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... followed the classical models , then high in esteem in England , but did not succeed well . It was when he turned his attention to Scotch social life that he took up the place left vacant by Allan Ramsay , and prepared the way for Burns ...
... followed the classical models , then high in esteem in England , but did not succeed well . It was when he turned his attention to Scotch social life that he took up the place left vacant by Allan Ramsay , and prepared the way for Burns ...
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... followed these erratic steps , and his children were taken from him by law . Burning under a sense of injury , he quitted England in 1819 , and resided in Italy till his melancholy death in the Bay of Spezia in 1822 . His poetical works ...
... followed these erratic steps , and his children were taken from him by law . Burning under a sense of injury , he quitted England in 1819 , and resided in Italy till his melancholy death in the Bay of Spezia in 1822 . His poetical works ...
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... followed " Endymion " fully justified this calm and balanced judgment of Jeffrey . Mrs. Oliphant says that " few men have stood with firmer self- possession yet humility to receive the often maddening sharpness of those critical spears ...
... followed " Endymion " fully justified this calm and balanced judgment of Jeffrey . Mrs. Oliphant says that " few men have stood with firmer self- possession yet humility to receive the often maddening sharpness of those critical spears ...
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... followed , and then a volume of " Miscellanies . ' He got into trouble by his dis- sipation , and killed a man in one of his frolics . actually condemned to be hanged , and his mother was anx- ious that the sentence should be carried ...
... followed , and then a volume of " Miscellanies . ' He got into trouble by his dis- sipation , and killed a man in one of his frolics . actually condemned to be hanged , and his mother was anx- ious that the sentence should be carried ...
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Page 19 - Yet, be it less or more, or soon or slow, It shall be still in strictest measure even 10 To that same lot, however mean or high, Toward which Time leads me, and the will of Heaven ; All is, if I have grace to use it so, As ever in my great Task-Master's eye.
Page 126 - I were to pray for a taste which should stand me in stead under every variety of circumstances, and be a source of happiness and cheerfulness to me through life, and a shield against its ills, however things might go amiss, and the world frown upon me, it would be a taste for reading.
Page 179 - I shall leave a name sometimes remembered with expressions of goodwill in the abodes of those whose lot it is to labour and to earn their daily bread by the sweat of their brow, when they shall recruit their exhausted strength with abundant and untaxed food, the sweeter because it is no longer leavened by a sense of injustice.
Page 175 - ... has with such spirit and decency charged upon me I shall neither attempt to palliate nor deny, but content myself with wishing that I may be one of those whose follies may cease with their youth, and not of that number who are ignorant in spite of experience. Whether youth can be imputed to any man as a reproach I will not, Sir, assume the province of determining; but surely age may become justly contemptible if the opportunities which it brings have passed away without improvement, and vice...
Page 25 - And wi' the lave ilk merry morn Could rank my rig and lass, Still shearing, and clearing The tither stocked raw, Wi' claivers, an' haivers, Wearing the day awa : Ev'n then a wish, (I mind its power,) A wish that to my latest hour Shall strongly heave my breast ; That I for poor auld Scotland's sake, Some usefu' plan, or beuk could make, Or sing a sang at least.
Page 126 - Give a man this taste, and the means of gratifying it, and you can hardly fail of making him a happy man, unless, indeed, you put into his hands a most perverse selection of books.
Page 163 - The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await alike the inevitable hour: The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
Page 25 - When ranting round in pleasure's ring, Religion may be blinded ; Or if she gie a random sting, It may be little minded ; But when on life we're tempest-driv'n, A conscience but a canker — A correspondence fix'd wi' Heav'n Is sure a noble anchor!
Page 129 - When on board HMS Beagle, as naturalist, I was much struck with certain facts in the distribution of the organic beings inhabiting South America, and in the geological relations of the present to the past inhabitants of that continent. These facts, as will be seen in the latter chapters of this volume, seemed to throw some light on the origin of species— that mystery of mysteries, as it has been called by one of our greatest philosophers.
Page 175 - ... or contempt, and deserves not that his gray hairs should secure him from insult. Much more, Sir, is he to be abhorred, who, as he has advanced in age, has receded from virtue, and becomes more wicked with less temptation ; — who prostitutes himself for money which he cannot enjoy, and spends the remains of his life in the ruin of his country.