Imagination and Fancy: Or, Selections from the English Poets, Illustrative of Those First Requisites of Their Art; with Markings of the Best Passages, Critical Notices of the Writers, and an Essay in Answer to the Question, "What is Poetry?" |
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... bonnie , sweet , sonsie lass . In short , she altogether , unwittingly to herself , initiated me in that delicious passion , which , in spite of acid disappoint- ment , gin - horse prudence , and bookworm philosophy , I hold to be the ...
... bonnie , sweet , sonsie lass . In short , she altogether , unwittingly to herself , initiated me in that delicious passion , which , in spite of acid disappoint- ment , gin - horse prudence , and bookworm philosophy , I hold to be the ...
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... bonnie gem . ' Alas ! it's no thy neebor sweet , The bonnie Lark , companion meet , Bending thee ' mang the dewy weet ! Wi ' speckled breast , When upward - springing , blythe to greet The purpling east . " Thus far the life of this ...
... bonnie gem . ' Alas ! it's no thy neebor sweet , The bonnie Lark , companion meet , Bending thee ' mang the dewy weet ! Wi ' speckled breast , When upward - springing , blythe to greet The purpling east . " Thus far the life of this ...
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... bonnie Jean Could only peer it ; Sae straught , sae taper , tight , and clean , Nane else could near it . " You observe Burns knew not yet who stood before him — woman , or angel , or fairy - but the Vision reminded him of her whom best ...
... bonnie Jean Could only peer it ; Sae straught , sae taper , tight , and clean , Nane else could near it . " You observe Burns knew not yet who stood before him — woman , or angel , or fairy - but the Vision reminded him of her whom best ...
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... bonnie winding banks , Where Doon rins , wimpling clear , Where Bruce ance rul'd the martial ranks And shook his Carrick spear . " - Then instantly he collects the company - the business of the evening is set a - going - each stanza has ...
... bonnie winding banks , Where Doon rins , wimpling clear , Where Bruce ance rul'd the martial ranks And shook his Carrick spear . " - Then instantly he collects the company - the business of the evening is set a - going - each stanza has ...
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... bonnie lassie lives , The lassie I lo'e best : There wild woods grow , and rivers row , And mony a hill between ; But day and night my fancy's flight Is ever wi ' my Jean . " I see her in the dewy flowers , I see her sweet and fair : I ...
... bonnie lassie lives , The lassie I lo'e best : There wild woods grow , and rivers row , And mony a hill between ; But day and night my fancy's flight Is ever wi ' my Jean . " I see her in the dewy flowers , I see her sweet and fair : I ...
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auld bard Beaumont and Fletcher beauty Ben Jonson bless bonnie breath Burns's called character charm Chaucer dear death delight divine doth dream Dumfries earth Ellisland eyes Faerie Queene fair fairy fancy fear feeling felt flowers frae gauger genius hand happy hath head hear heard heart heaven Hector Macneil hour human imagination inspired knew labor lady light live look Lycidas Macbeth Mauchline melancholy Milton mind mirth moral morning Mossgiel muse nature never noble o'er passage passion perhaps pity pleasure poem poet poet's poetical poetry poor pride rhyme Robert Burns round Scotland Scottish Shakspeare Shanter sing sleep song soul Spenser spirit stanza sugh sweet Sycorax Tamburlaine tears tell thee things Thomson thou art thought tion TITANIA truth verse voice Whyles wife William Burnes wind witch wood words young youth