The Lives of the Scotish Poets: With Preliminary Dissertations on the Literary History of Scotland, and the Early Scotish Drama, Том 2Alex. Lawrie and Company, 1804 - 506 страница |
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... Thay grym monstures my spreits abhorrit and doutit . Not throw the soyl but muskane treis sproutit Combust , barrant , unblomit and unleifit , Auld rottin runtis quhairin na sap was leifit , Moch , all waist , widderit , with granis ...
... Thay grym monstures my spreits abhorrit and doutit . Not throw the soyl but muskane treis sproutit Combust , barrant , unblomit and unleifit , Auld rottin runtis quhairin na sap was leifit , Moch , all waist , widderit , with granis ...
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... thay wald mene , Quhilks sang and playit , but neuer a wreist yeid wrang . They now roam through a great variety of re- gions : but the poet's account of their flight savours strongly of the incoherence of a dream . They at length reach ...
... thay wald mene , Quhilks sang and playit , but neuer a wreist yeid wrang . They now roam through a great variety of re- gions : but the poet's account of their flight savours strongly of the incoherence of a dream . They at length reach ...
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... thay yeid by . Martial was cuik , till roist , seith , farce , and fry . And Poggius stude with mony girne and grone , On Laurence Valla spittand , and cryand fy ! With mirthis thus and meitis delicate Thir ladyis feistit according ...
... thay yeid by . Martial was cuik , till roist , seith , farce , and fry . And Poggius stude with mony girne and grone , On Laurence Valla spittand , and cryand fy ! With mirthis thus and meitis delicate Thir ladyis feistit according ...
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... thay ar heir , Misknawis God and followis thair pleseir ; Quhairfoir thay sall in endlis fire be brint . Yone lustie schip yow seis pereist and tint , In quhome yon pepill maid ane perrelous race , Scho hecht The Carvell of the State of ...
... thay ar heir , Misknawis God and followis thair pleseir ; Quhairfoir thay sall in endlis fire be brint . Yone lustie schip yow seis pereist and tint , In quhome yon pepill maid ane perrelous race , Scho hecht The Carvell of the State of ...
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... thay war present . " In it he beholds an adumbration of every remark- able action recorded in history . Among other personages of a like description , he sees Greit Gowmacmorne and Fyn Mac Cowl , and how Thay suld be goddis in Ireland , as ...
... thay war present . " In it he beholds an adumbration of every remark- able action recorded in history . Among other personages of a like description , he sees Greit Gowmacmorne and Fyn Mac Cowl , and how Thay suld be goddis in Ireland , as ...
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