Rural Poems, Illustrative of the Husbandry, Scenery, and Manners of Scotland: Or, British GeorgicsOgle, Duncan, 1821 - 312 стор. |
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Сторінка 305 - Scrubbed till it shone the day to grace, Bore then upon its massive board No mark to part the squire and lord. Then was brought in the lusty brawn, By old blue-coated serving-man ; Then the grim boar's head frowned on high, Crested with bays and rosemary.
Сторінка 220 - Hannibal gave my young ideas such a turn that I used to strut in raptures up and down after the recruiting drum and bagpipe, and wish myself tall enough to be a soldier, while the story of Wallace poured a Scottish prejudice into my veins, which will boil along there till the floodgates of life shut in eternal rest.
Сторінка 221 - Scotland will serve to convince an unprejudiced observer, that they possess a degree of intelligence not generally found among the same class of men in the other countries of Europe. In the very humblest condition of the Scottish peasants, every one can read, and most persons are more or less skilled in writing and arithmetic ; and, under the disguise of their uncouth appearance, and of their peculiar manners and dialect, a stranger will discover that they possess a curiosity, and have obtained a...
Сторінка 24 - ... Success alternately, from side to side. Changes ; and quick the hours un-noted fly, Till light begins to fail, and deep below, The player, as he stoops to lift his coit, Sees, half incredulous, the rising moon. But now the final, the decisive spell Begins ; near and more near the sounding stones...
Сторінка 19 - By lonely river side is heard at times To break the silence deep, for now the stream Is mute, or faintly gurgles far below Its frozen ceiling. Silent stands the mill, The wheel immoveable and shod with ice.
Сторінка 274 - Benumb'd with cold, and listless of their gain. Soft whispers then, and broken sounds, are heard, As when the woods by gentle winds are stirr'd; 380 Such stifled noise as the close furnace hides, Or dying murmurs of departing tides.
Сторінка 219 - I'll ha'e a' things made ready to his will; In winter, when he toils through wind and rain, A bleezing ingle, and a clean hearthstane ; And soon as he flings by his plaid and staff, The seething pat's be ready to tak aff; Clean hag-a-bag I'll spread upon his board, And serve him wi...
Сторінка 263 - And press the plants with shards of potters' clay. This fence against immoderate rain they found, Or when the dog-star cleaves the thirsty ground. Be mindful, when thou hast entombed the shoot ; With store of earth around to feed the root ; With iron teeth of rakes and prongs, to move The crusted earth, and loosen it above. Then exercise thy sturdy steers to plough Betwixt thy vines, and teach the feeble row To mount on reeds, and wands, and, upward led, On ashen poles to raise their forky head.
Сторінка 279 - O'ertops the ridges of the furrow'd plain ; And drains the standing waters, when they yield Too large a beverage to the drunken field : But most in autumn, and the showery spring. When dubious months uncertain weather bring ; When fountains open, when impetuous rain Swells hasty brooks, and pours upon the plain ; When earth with slime and mud is cover'd o'er, Or hollow places spew their watery store.
Сторінка 64 - Now blooms the lily by the bank, The primrose down the brae ; The hawthorn's budding in the glen, And milk-white is the slae ; The meanest hind in fair Scotland May rove their sweets amang ; But I, the Queen of a...