The Poetical Works of Dr. John LeydenW.P. Nimmo, 1875 - 304 pages |
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... deep in company with the godlike Ulysses . The simplicity and valour of primeval times had always a peculiar fascination for him , and in many ways he sought to burst the trammels which fastidious and whimsical minds had imposed and ...
... deep in company with the godlike Ulysses . The simplicity and valour of primeval times had always a peculiar fascination for him , and in many ways he sought to burst the trammels which fastidious and whimsical minds had imposed and ...
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... deep into the stores of knowledge that were now laid open to him in the University Library . He had now ample scope for gratifying his eager appetite for books , and no one plucked the golden fruits with greater relish and greater ...
... deep into the stores of knowledge that were now laid open to him in the University Library . He had now ample scope for gratifying his eager appetite for books , and no one plucked the golden fruits with greater relish and greater ...
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... deep . The fear of a watery grave already held the small company in its chill grasp , when our hero , to the utter con- sternation of all , began to sing , as he says , his death - song , and to shout , " Lochaber no more . " But fate ...
... deep . The fear of a watery grave already held the small company in its chill grasp , when our hero , to the utter con- sternation of all , began to sing , as he says , his death - song , and to shout , " Lochaber no more . " But fate ...
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... deep , congealed to lead , now heaves again , While foamy surges furrow all the main ; Broad shallows whiten in tremendous row ; Deep gurgling murmurs echo from below ; And , o'er each coral reef , the billows come and go . Oft have I ...
... deep , congealed to lead , now heaves again , While foamy surges furrow all the main ; Broad shallows whiten in tremendous row ; Deep gurgling murmurs echo from below ; And , o'er each coral reef , the billows come and go . Oft have I ...
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... deep , congealed to lead , now heaves again , While foamy surges furrow all the main ; Broad shallows whiten in tremendous row ; Deep gurgling murmurs echo from below ; And , o'er each coral reef , the billows come and go . Oft have I ...
... deep , congealed to lead , now heaves again , While foamy surges furrow all the main ; Broad shallows whiten in tremendous row ; Deep gurgling murmurs echo from below ; And , o'er each coral reef , the billows come and go . Oft have I ...
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Page 44 - Chieftain's woe, Far from the maid he loved so dear, The song arose, so soft and slow, He seem'd her parting sigh to hear. The lonely deck he paces o'er, Impatient for the rising day, And still, from Crinan's moonlight shore, He turns his eyes to Colonsay.
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Page 153 - The gentleman hereat wondered, and forthwith, in English, saluted the woman, who joyfully answered him ; and said she was right glad there to see a gentleman of our isle : and told him that she was a Scottish woman, and came first from Scotland to Venice...
Page 35 - In Keeldar's plume the holly green, And rowan leaves, nod on, And vain Lord Soulis's sword was seen, Though the hilt was adderstone. Then up the Wee Brown Man he rose, By Soulis of Liddesdale ; " In vain," he said, " a thousand blows Assail the charmed mail.