'Christopher North': A Memoir of John Wilson, Late Professor of Moral Philosophy in the University of Edinburgh ; Compiled from Family Papers and Other Sources, المجلد 2Edmonston and Douglas, 1862 |
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الصفحة 245 - And all their echoes mourn. The willows and the hazel copses green Shall now no more be seen Fanning their joyous leaves to thy soft lays. As killing as the canker to the rose...
الصفحة 263 - If God will be with me, and keep me in the way that I go, and will give me bread to eat and raiment to put on, so that I may reach my father's house in peace...
الصفحة 13 - Come one, come all! this rock shall fly From its firm base as soon as I." Sir Roderick marked, — and in his eyes Respect was mingled with surprise, And the stern joy which warriors feel In foemen worthy of their steel.
الصفحة 272 - There it was, on a little river island, that once, whether sleeping or waking we know not, we saw celebrated a Fairy's Funeral. First we heard small pipes playing, as if no bigger than hollow rushes that whisper to the night winds; and more piteous than aught that trills from earthly instrument was the scarce audible dirge ! It seemed to float over the stream, every foam-bell emitting a plaintive note, till the airy anthem came floating over our couch, and then alighted without footsteps among the...
الصفحة 272 - Fairy, lying with uncovered face, pale as the lily, and motionless as the snow. The dirge grew fainter and fainter, and then died quite away ; when two of the creatures came from the circle, and took their station, one at the head and the other at the foot of the bier. They sang alternate measures, not louder than the twittering of the awakened wood-lark before it goes up the dewy air, but dolorous and full of the desolation of death. The flower-bier stirred ; for the spot on which it lay sank...
الصفحة 93 - The three bards of the Lakes led the cheers that hailed Scott and Canning ; and music and sunshine, flags, streamers and gay dresses, the merry hum of voices, and the rapid splashing of innumerable oars made up a dazzling mixture of sensations as the flotilla wound its way among the richlyfoliaged islands and along bays and promontories peopled with enthusiastic spectators.
الصفحة 176 - To CHRISTOPHER NORTH. You did late review my lays, Crusty Christopher; You did mingle blame and praise Rusty Christopher. When I learnt from whom it came I forgave you all the blame, Musty Christopher; I could not forgive the praise, Fusty Christopher.
الصفحة 150 - ... conveyed hither. There is a mail-coach nightly to Dumfries, and two stage-coaches every alternate day to Thornhill ; from each of which places we are but fifteen miles distant, with a fair road, and plenty of vehicles from both. Could we have warning, we would send you down two horses ; of wheel carriages (except carts and barrows) we are still unhappily destitute. Nay, in any case, the distance, for a stout Scottish man, is but a morning walk, and this is the loveliest December weather I can...
الصفحة 220 - Noctes,' for all that I write on any subject seems to be popular far above its deserts ; and considering the great number of
الصفحة 278 - Poets too, are somewhat weakly ; he is strong. The Young Poets are rather ignorant ; his knowledge is great. The Young Poets mumble books; he devours them. The Young Poets dally with their subject ; he strikes its heart. The Young Poets...