The Poetical Works of Sir Alexander Boswell: Now First Collected and Edited with Memoir by Robert Howie Smith |
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Page 184 - Fergusson, MP, of Raith, Fifeshire. He'll outdo, with sword and flame, Senna-cherib, Senna-cherib ! What that evening made him tame ? Michael's spare-rib, Michael's spare-rib Thus the social round they form In Privy-gardens, Privy-gardens; And they care about Reform Not three fardens, not three fardens. To yawn and vote let others stay, Who can bear it, who can bear it; They, much wiser, drink away Michael's claret, Michael's claret While ye thus in claret, sirs, Lose your reason, lose your reason,...
Page 33 - I gave him of our lordly fare, I gave him here a welcome hame. The auld will speak, the young maun hear ; Be...
Page 58 - The wisdom of a learned man cometh by opportunity of leisure; and he that hath little business shall become wise. — " How can he get wisdom that holdeth the plough, and that glorieth in the goad; that driveth oxen; and is occupied in their labours; and whose talk is of bullocks?
Page 33 - Good night, and joy be wi' ye a' ; Your harmless mirth has cheer'd my heart : May life's fell blasts out o'er ye blaw ; In sorrow may ye never part ! My spirit lives, but strength is gone ; The mountain-fires now blaze in vain : Remember, sons, the deeds I've done, And in your deeds I'll live again ! When on yon muir our gallant clan Frae boasting foes their banners tore, Wha show'd himself a better man, Or fiercer...
Page 17 - I thought her my own, ah ! too short secm'd the day For a jaunt to Downpatrick, or a trip on the sea ; To express what I felt then, all language were vain, 'Twas in truth what the poets have studied to feign. But, too...
Page xxxiii - I was constrained to purchase two small fonts of black letter, and to have punches cut for eighteen or twenty double letters and contractions. I was thus enlisted and articled into the service, and being infected with the type fever, the fits have periodically returned. In the year 1815, having viewed a portable press invented by Mr John Ruthven, an ingenious printer in Edinburgh, I purchased one, and commenced compositor. At this period, my brother having it in contemplation to present Bamfield...
Page 52 - Then the Assembly Close received the fair — Order and elegance presided there — Each gay Right Honourable had her place, To walk a minuet with becoming grace. No racing to the dance, with rival hurry — Such was thy sway, O famed Miss Nicky Murray...
Page lxvii - Ressoning which was betwixt the Abbote of Crosraguell and John Knox, in Mayboill, concerning the Masse, in the year of God, a thousand five hundred thre score and two yeires.
Page 185 - And folly, ye foplings, I leave her to you ! For Scotland, I mingled in bustle and strife ; For myself, I seek peace and an innocent life : I'll haste to the Highlands, and visit each scene, With Maggie, my love, in her rockley o...
Page lxv - Money. qucerenda pecunia primum est, Virtus post nummos. Horace. By Richard Barnfeild, Graduate in Oxford. LONDON, Printed by GS for lohn laggard, and are to be sold at his shoppe neere Temple-barre, at the Signe of the Hand and starre.