Essays on the Lives and Writings of Fletcher of Saltoun and the Poet Thomson: Biographical, Critical, and Political. With Some Pieces of Thomson's Never Before PublishedJ. Debrett, 1792 - 280 頁 |
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adminiſtration againſt ANDREW FLETCHER becauſe beſt Britain buſineſs cafe cauſe commiffioner conditions of government confent confideration conftitution court crown deceaſe declared defire Earl of Buchan Ednam England Engliſh eſtabliſhed eſtate faid fame fecurity feffion fent fentiment fhall fhew fince firſt flaves Fletcher of Saltoun fome foon ftate ftill fubject fucceffor fuch fufficient genius greateſt happineſs himſelf honour houfe houſe intereft James JAMES THOMSON juſt king kingdom laft laſt laws leaſt liberty limitations LORD CHANCELLOR Lord Stair majefty meaſures ment miniſters moft Monmouth moſt muft muſt myſelf nation neceffary occafion ourſelves paffed parliament of Scotland perfon places and penfions pleaſe pleaſure poet political prefent prerogative prince Prince of Orange reaſon refuſe reſpect royal affent ſay Scotland Scots ſhall ſhould ſpeak ſtand ſtate ſuch thefe themſelves theſe thing thofe Thomſon thoſe thou tion unleſs uſed Whig whoſe wiſh
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第 179 頁 - As a writer he is entitled to one praise of the highest kind: his mode of thinking, and of expressing his thoughts, is original. His blank verse is no more the blank verse of Milton, or of any other poet, than the rhymes of Prior are the rhymes of Cowley.
第 180 頁 - He thinks in a peculiar train, and he thinks always as a man of genius; he looks round on Nature and on Life with the eye which Nature bestows only on a poet; the eye that distinguishes, in...
第 193 頁 - For ever, Fortune, wilt thou prove An unrelenting foe to Love, And when we meet a mutual heart Come in between, and bid us part ? Bid us sigh on from day to day, And wish and wish the soul away ; Till youth and genial years are flown, And all the life of life...
第 236 頁 - mid the varied landscape weep. But thou, who own'st that earthy bed, Ah what will every dirge avail ; Or tears, which love and pity shed, That mourn beneath the gliding sail...
第 199 頁 - ... and if you can conveniently advance to them twelve pounds on my account, it will be a particular favour. That will set them agoing, and I design from time to time to send them goods from hence ; my whole account I will pay you when you come up here, not in poetical paper credit, but in the solid money of this dirty world. I will not draw upon you in case you be not prepared to defend yourself: but if your purse be valiant, please to inquire for Jean or Elizabeth Thomson, at the Rev.
第 193 頁 - As those we love decay, we die in part, String after string is sever'd from the heart ; Till loosen'd life at last — but breathing clay, Without one pang, is glad to fall away. Unhappy he who latest feels the blow, Whose eyes have wept o'er every friend laid low, Dragg'd lingering on from partial death to death, Till dying, all he can resign is breath.
第 207 頁 - MADE to engage all hearts, and charm all eyes; Tho' meek, magnanimous ; tho' witty, wife '• Polite, as all her life in courts had been ; Yet good, as fhe the world had never feen ; The -noble fire of an exalted mind, With gentle female tendernefs combin'd.
第 77 頁 - ... by the advice of English ministers, and the principal offices of the kingdom filled with such men, as the court of England knew would be subservient to their designs : by which means they have had so visible an influence upon our whole administration, that we have from that time appeared to the rest of the world more like a conquered province than a free independent people.
第 276 頁 - By thee adult'rous luft was driv'n from men Among the beftial herds to range; by thee Founded in reafon, loyal, juft, and pure, 755 Relations dear, and all the charities Of father, fon, and brother firft were known. Far be...
第 221 頁 - The two fields next to me, from the first of which I have walled — no, no— paled in about as much as my garden consisted of before, so that the walk runs round the hedge, where you may figure me walking any time of the day, and sometimes of the night.