Censura Literaria: Containing Titles, Abstracts, and Opinions of Old English Books, with Original Disquisitions, Articles of Biography, and Other Literary Antiquities, Nide 2

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Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1806
 

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Sivu 56 - Or like the snow-falls in the river, A moment white—then melts for ever; Or like the borealis race, That flit ere you can point their place; Or like the rainbow's lovely form, Evanishing amid the storm : Nae man can tether time or tide; The hour approaches Tam maun ride.
Sivu 49 - to a word of three syllables: " On the fifth day of the moon, which, according to the custom of my forefathers, I always keep holy, after having washed myself, and offered up my morning devotions, I ascended the high hill of Bagdat, in order to pass the rest of the day in meditation and prayer."
Sivu 52 - this sublunary sphere, until he can be silent no longer, and bursts out into the glorious enthusiasm of Thomson, ' These, as they change, Almighty Father, these Are but the varied God —The rolling year Is full of thee.
Sivu 56 - bis queerest stories; The landlord's laugh was ready chorus: The storm without might rair and rustle, Tarn did na mind the storm a whistle. Care, mad to see a man sae happy, E'en drown'd himself amang the nappy, AS bees flee hame wi' lades o' treasure, The minutes wing'd their way wi' pleasure: Kings may be blest, but
Sivu 348 - Earth's universal face, deep-hid, and chill, Is all one dazzling waste. The labourer-ox Stands cover'd o'er with snow, and then demands The fruit of all his toil. The fowls of Heaven, Tam'd by the cruel season, croud around The winnowing store, and claim the little boon That Providence allows.
Sivu 49 - Eolian harp, passive, takes the impression of the passing accident ? Or do these workings argue something within us above the trodden clod? I own myself partial to such proofs of those awful and important realities—a God that made all things — man's immaterial and immortal nature—and a world of weal and woe beyond death and the grave.
Sivu 242 - thou Good Supreme! O! teach me what is good! teach me thyself! Save me from folly, vanity, and vice, From every low pursuit! and feed my soul With knowledge, conscious peace, and virtue pure, Sacred, substantial, never-fading bliss! [To
Sivu 56 - and rustle, Tarn did na mind the storm a whistle. Care, mad to see a man sae happy, E'en drown'd himself amang the nappy, AS bees flee hame wi' lades o' treasure, The minutes wing'd their way wi' pleasure: Kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious, O'er a' the ills o' life victorious. But pleasures are like poppies spread;
Sivu 240 - thro' rocks abrupt, and sounding far: Then o'er the sanded valley, floating, spreads, Calm, sluggish, silent: till again constrain'd Betwixt two meeting hills, it bursts away, Where rocks and woods o'erhang the turbid stream. There gathering triple force, rapid and deep, It boils, and wheels, and foams, and thunders thro'. Nature! great parent! whose
Sivu 89 - 1726. * See WINTER comes to rule the varied year, Sullen and sad ; with all his rising train Vapours, and clouds, and storms: Be these my theme, These, that exalt the soul to solemn thought, And heavenly musing. Welcome, kindred glooms

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