The Grampians Desolate: A PoemJohn Moir, 1804 - 316 sider |
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Side 28
... give birth , Disgrace the comeliness of manly worth ! These are degenerate days : Our alter'd GAËL Have breath'd infectious air , -and nature frail Yields to those wiles that oft waylay the soul , Whilst sinking virtue loses all ...
... give birth , Disgrace the comeliness of manly worth ! These are degenerate days : Our alter'd GAËL Have breath'd infectious air , -and nature frail Yields to those wiles that oft waylay the soul , Whilst sinking virtue loses all ...
Side 53
... gives , but still retains his post . Headlong a daring foe rush'd on his steel At once transfixt - in agony did reel ; — Nor groan escap'd him - as he gnaw'd the ground Life's purple stream gush'd from the mortal wound , He rais'd his ...
... gives , but still retains his post . Headlong a daring foe rush'd on his steel At once transfixt - in agony did reel ; — Nor groan escap'd him - as he gnaw'd the ground Life's purple stream gush'd from the mortal wound , He rais'd his ...
Side 58
... give her broken heart relief : Relief alas ! -to her no joy returns ! — 1 Oft thro ' the livelong dreary night she mourns ; And craz'd she often rends the troubled air , And smites her heaving breast and tears her hair : Oft wildly ...
... give her broken heart relief : Relief alas ! -to her no joy returns ! — 1 Oft thro ' the livelong dreary night she mourns ; And craz'd she often rends the troubled air , And smites her heaving breast and tears her hair : Oft wildly ...
Side 59
... give others place , Those sordid aliens , who for greed of gain Forsook the ranges of the southern plain . Among the mournful many left to roam , Our pair and little ones bereft of home , As humble cottagers erect a shed , And toil from ...
... give others place , Those sordid aliens , who for greed of gain Forsook the ranges of the southern plain . Among the mournful many left to roam , Our pair and little ones bereft of home , As humble cottagers erect a shed , And toil from ...
Side 82
... gives the word - and up all spring ! And to their holla mountain - echoes ring- The game is up again - full speed they fly- Ere night - fall , hunted down , more prowlers die Triumphant home returning from the chace , The hunters pass ...
... gives the word - and up all spring ! And to their holla mountain - echoes ring- The game is up again - full speed they fly- Ere night - fall , hunted down , more prowlers die Triumphant home returning from the chace , The hunters pass ...
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agus alien breed ancient Argyleshire arms ascends bagpipe bard beam brave braxy Britain Caledonian Canal called chace chief chieftains circumstances cottars Crait crofters cultivated dance dawn deep distant districts dread emigration farmers farms fleecy flocks Gael Gaelic gale glen gloom Grampian hills Grampian mountains Grampians and Western GRAMPIANS DESOLATE hand heath heaves Hebrides Hebridian hence herds highland hoary industry inhabitants Ireland joys keen labour lease live-stock Lochaber Malcolm means mild mountains native breed o'er OSSIAN pasture peace Perthshire plough poor possessions race rack-rent rage reigns rent respecting roam roar rocks roe i loe round rural economy says Scot Scotland Scottish serene sheep Sheep-store shepherd shore smiles song soon soul sound spread store-farm storm swains sweep sweet tenants thro tion toil vale Vide Waste Lands Western Islands Western Isles wild wind winter
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Side 258 - And it came to pass as they came, when David was returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, that the women came out of all the cities of Israel, singing and dancing, to meet king Saul, with tabrets, with joy, and with instruments of music. And the women answered one another as they played, and said, Saul hath slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands.
Side 259 - The head of John the Baptist. 25 And she came in straightway with haste unto the king, and asked, saying, I will that thou give me by and by in a charger the head of John the Baptist.
Side 296 - I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill ; but time and chance happeneth to them all.
Side 296 - VANITY of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity. What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun ? One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh : but the earth abideth for ever.
Side 259 - And when the daughter of the said Herodias came in, and danced, and pleased Herod and them that sat with him, the king said unto the damsel, Ask of me whatsoever thou wilt, and I will give it thee.
Side 296 - A few years ago, the herring fishery employed all Grub Street; it was the topic in every coffee-house, and the burden of every ballad. We were to drag up oceans of gold from the bottom of the sea; we were to supply all Europe with herrings upon our own terms.
Side 1 - Thus every good his native wilds impart, Imprints the patriot passion on his heart; And e'en those ills, that round his mansion rise, Enhance the bliss his scanty fund supplies. Dear is that shed to which his soul conforms, And dear that hill which lifts him to the storms; And as a child, when scaring sounds molest, Clings close and closer to the mother's breast, So the loud torrent, and the whirlwind's roar, But bind him to his native mountains more.
Side 259 - Then David returned to bless his household. And Michal the daughter of Saul came out to meet David, and said, How glorious was the king of Israel to-day, who uncovered himself to-day in the eyes of the handmaids of his servants, as one of the vain fellows shamelessly uncovereth himself!
Side 284 - But he shall not multiply horses to himself, nor cause the people to return to Egypt, to the end that he should multiply horses : forasmuch as the Lord hath said unto you, ye shall henceforth return no more that way.