The Works of Professor Wilson of the University of Edinburgh: Essays critical and imaginativeW. Blackwood, 1857 |
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... Thou's met me in an evil hour ; For I maun crush amang the stoure Thy slender stem : Το spare thee now is past my pow'r Thou bonny gem . " Alas ! it's no thy neibor sweet , The bonny lark , companion meet , Bending thee ' mang the dewy ...
... Thou's met me in an evil hour ; For I maun crush amang the stoure Thy slender stem : Το spare thee now is past my pow'r Thou bonny gem . " Alas ! it's no thy neibor sweet , The bonny lark , companion meet , Bending thee ' mang the dewy ...
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... Thou ling'ring star , with less'ning ray , That lov'st to greet the early morn , Again thou usher'st in the day My Mary from my soul was torn . O Mary ! dear departed shade ! Where is thy place of blissful rest ? See'st thou thy lover ...
... Thou ling'ring star , with less'ning ray , That lov'st to greet the early morn , Again thou usher'st in the day My Mary from my soul was torn . O Mary ! dear departed shade ! Where is thy place of blissful rest ? See'st thou thy lover ...
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... thou this ' - she solemn said , And bound the holly round my head : The polish'd leaves , and berries red , Did rustling play ; And , like a passing thought , she fled In light away . " " To reconcile to our imagination the entrance of ...
... thou this ' - she solemn said , And bound the holly round my head : The polish'd leaves , and berries red , Did rustling play ; And , like a passing thought , she fled In light away . " " To reconcile to our imagination the entrance of ...
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... thou labour and do all that thou hast to do . But the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God . In it thou shalt do no manner of work . " O ! that man should ever find it in his heart to see in that law a stern obligation - not a ...
... thou labour and do all that thou hast to do . But the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God . In it thou shalt do no manner of work . " O ! that man should ever find it in his heart to see in that law a stern obligation - not a ...
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... Thou ! who pour'd the patriotic tide That stream'd through Wallace's undaunted heart ; Who dared to nobly stem tyrannic pride , Or nobly die , the second glorious part , ( The patriot's God peculiarly thou art , His friend , inspirer ...
... Thou ! who pour'd the patriotic tide That stream'd through Wallace's undaunted heart ; Who dared to nobly stem tyrannic pride , Or nobly die , the second glorious part , ( The patriot's God peculiarly thou art , His friend , inspirer ...
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