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... fame , and I wish and expect it may tower still higher by the new publication . But , as a friend , I warn you to prepare to meet with your share of detraction and envy - a train that always **** always accompany great men . For your ...
... fame , and I wish and expect it may tower still higher by the new publication . But , as a friend , I warn you to prepare to meet with your share of detraction and envy - a train that always **** always accompany great men . For your ...
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... fame and character , and I am one of the sons of little men . " To write him . a mere matter - of - fact affair , like a merchant's order , would be disgracing the little character I have ; and to write the author of The View of Society ...
... fame and character , and I am one of the sons of little men . " To write him . a mere matter - of - fact affair , like a merchant's order , would be disgracing the little character I have ; and to write the author of The View of Society ...
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... fame was at the highest , I stood , unintoxi- cated , with the inebriating cup in my hand , looking forward with rueful resolve to the has- tening time when the blow of Calumny should dash it to the ground , with all the eagerness of ...
... fame was at the highest , I stood , unintoxi- cated , with the inebriating cup in my hand , looking forward with rueful resolve to the has- tening time when the blow of Calumny should dash it to the ground , with all the eagerness of ...
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... - where Thomson and Beattie have painted the landscape , and Little- ton and Collins described the heart , I am not vain enough to hope for distinguished poetic fame . No. No. XIII . From DR . MOORE , Clifford - 1 43.
... - where Thomson and Beattie have painted the landscape , and Little- ton and Collins described the heart , I am not vain enough to hope for distinguished poetic fame . No. No. XIII . From DR . MOORE , Clifford - 1 43.
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... the cloud of adverse fortune burst Indignant , and in light unborrow'd blazed . Scotia ! from rude affliction shield thy bard , His heaven - taught numbers Fame herself will guard . E. No. XIV . TO THE Reverend G. LOWRIE , of 46.
... the cloud of adverse fortune burst Indignant , and in light unborrow'd blazed . Scotia ! from rude affliction shield thy bard , His heaven - taught numbers Fame herself will guard . E. No. XIV . TO THE Reverend G. LOWRIE , of 46.
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Page 241 - Still o'er these scenes my memory wakes, And fondly broods with miser care ; Time but the impression stronger makes, As streams their channels deeper wear.
Page 142 - An' fill it in a silver tassie, That I may drink before I go, A service to my bonnie lassie: The boat rocks at the pier o...
Page 59 - No sculptured marble here, nor pompous lay, 'No storied urn nor animated bust;' This simple stone directs pale Scotia's way To pour her sorrows o'er her poet's dust.
Page 149 - ... in an autumnal morning, without feeling an elevation of soul like the enthusiasm of devotion or poetry. Tell me, my dear friend, to what can this be owing! Are we a piece of machinery, which, like the ./Eolian harp, passive, takes the impression of the passing accident; or do these workings argue something within us above the trodden clod...
Page 149 - I have some favourite flowers in spring, among which are the mountain-daisy, the hare-bell, the fox-glove, the wild-brier rose, the budding birch, and the hoary hawthorn, that I view and hang over with particular delight.
Page 148 - Bagdat in order to pass the rest of the day in meditation and prayer. As I was here airing myself on the tops of the mountains, I fell into a profound contemplation on the vanity of human life; and, passing from one thought to another, surely, said I, man is but a shadow and life a dream.
Page 259 - As cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country.
Page 215 - But to conclude my silly rhyme, (I'm scant o' verse, and scant o' time,) To make a happy fire-side clime To weans and wife, That's the true pathos and sublime Of human life.
Page 222 - Mary! dear departed shade! Where is thy place of blissful rest? Seest thou thy lover lowly laid? Hear'st thou the groans that rend his breast?
Page 105 - The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and Nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the war of elements, The wreck of matter, and the crush of worlds.