 | George Finlay - 1844 - 592 pages
...language." — The Timtt. " Professor Aytoun's * Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers ' — a volume of verse which shows that Scotland -has yet a poet. Full of the true fire, it now stirs and swells like a trumpet-note — now sinks in cadences sad and wild as the wail of a Highland dirge." — Quarterly... | |
 | 1849 - 496 pages
...these, we are bold to iay, arc not to be found in the language."— THE TIMES. • • A volume of verse which shows that Scotland has yet a poet. Full of the true fire, it now stirs and swells like a trumpet-note, now sinks in cadences sad and wild as the wail of a Highland dirge."— QUARTERLY REVIEW.... | |
 | James Grant - 1850 - 372 pages
...QUARTERLY REVIEW, June 1849. " Professor Aytoun's ' Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers'—a volume of verse which shows that Scotland has yet a poet. Full of the true fire, it now stirs and swells like a trumpet-note—now sinks in cadences sad and wild as the wail of a Highland dirge." MORNING CHRONICLE.... | |
 | John Galt - 1850 - 442 pages
...language."— Time*. ' ' Professor A ytoun's ' Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers '—a Tolnme of verse which shews that Scotland has yet a poet. Full of the true fire, it now stirs and swells like a trumpet-note — now sinks in cadences sad and wild as the wail of a Highland dirge."— quarterly... | |
 | James Grant, Sir John HEPBURN - 1851 - 316 pages
...cloth, price 7s. 6d. " Professor Aytoun's ' Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers ' — a volume of verse which shows that Scotland has yet a poet. Full of the true fire, it now stirs and swells like a trumpet-note — now Kinks in cadences sad and wild as the wail of a Highland dirge." — Quarterly... | |
 | David Macbeth Moir - 1851 - 398 pages
...gilt cloth, price 9s. ** Professor A.vtoun's ' Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers '—a volume of verse which shows that Scotland has yet a poet. Full of the true fire, it now stirs and swells like a trumpet-note — now sinks in cadences sad and wild as the wail of a Highland dirge."— Quarterly... | |
 | sir Henry Yule - 1851 - 282 pages
...gilt cloth, price 9s. " Professor Aytoun's ' Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers ' — a volume of verse which shows that Scotland has yet a poet. Full of the true tire, it now stirs and swells like a trumpet-note — now sinks in cadences sad and wild as the wail... | |
 | Herbert Mayo - 1851 - 228 pages
...OPINIONS OF THE PRESS. '' Professor Aytoun's ' Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers' — a volume of verse which shows that Scotland has yet a poet. Full of the true tire, it now stirs and swells like a trumpetnote — now sinks in cadences sad and wild as the wail... | |
 | David Macbeth Moir - 1852 - 414 pages
...gilt cloth, price 7s. 6d. " Professor Aytoun's ' Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers '—a volume of verse which shows that Scotland has yet a poet. Full of the true fire, it now stirs and swells like a trumpet-note — now sinks in cadences sad and wild as the wail of a Highland dirge." — Quarterly... | |
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Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers" — a volume of verse which shows that Scotland has yet a poet. Full of the true fire, it now stirs and swells like a trumpet-note — now sinks in cadences sad and wild as the wail of a Highland dirge.— Quarterly Review. 
