... important. Aye,” he would say, “when I used to lie in the shade, under that granite rock, to coquet with my pocket volume of poetry, or when 1 used to cross-fish for salmon with young Martin Doyle, the miller’s son, the banks of this pretty stream, little ...

... by image more true, more mournful, and more exquisitely finished, than any that we can recollect in the whole compass of poetry.”* Greece! fallen from her pristine greatness, her republican simplicity and power, is object of intense and melancholy interest ...

... love, liberty, and justice that would otherwise spring among the different nations of the world. The whole compass of English poetry does not furnish a more powerful passage than that of Lord Byron, where he describes the siege and sack of the city of Ismail ...

... about my new acquaintance, I assumed the freedom of submitting his sacred pages to a casual perusal. The volume abounded in poetry, and light, fanciful sketches, with an occasional treatise on popular and scientific.subjects, interspersed with oiiginal ...

... solitude of his prison, he first resolved to be the friend of his people if he regained his liberty and throne. Philosophy, poetry, and music were the solace of his cultivated mind during his lonely hours. It was in captivity that he first awakened the ...

... acknowledged author of many of our sweetest ancient Scottish tunes, and it is probable that he first composed them to his own poetry, and that for many years they were sung together by the peasantry of Scotland. But his Scotticisms became obsolete, and some ...

... popular—“ The Gaberlunzie Man,” and The Jolly Beggar’’—and are excellent specimens of his graphic, humourous, and descriptive poetry, and familiar to Scottish readers. We will here quote the first stanza of the Gaburlunzie Man:— The pauky auld carle cam’ ...

... of his age, and was the best preceptor of his early years, and to his moral influence we may ascribe the love of justice, poetry, music, and romance, that afterwards made him shine so brilliant, and attained for him the homely appellations of “The Gude ...

... something monastic and solemn, as the Monarch entered the northern gate of Holyrood. Holyrood, so full of history, so full of poetry—the brilliant court of the Fourth James—of the graceful and romantic knight of Snowdon—of the peerless Mary, the centre of ...

... lesson which men learn from history, that they are to better their condition by disturbing the State ? Does the reading of poetry train us to insurrection ? Does the diffusion of a sense of beauty through people incline them to tumult ? Arc not works of ...

... be read with pleasure and profit our Scottish Presbyterians, and should be placed the library of every lover of religious poetry. The Peasant’s Death” is pathetic, mournful, and devotional; and in The Plough exfolls the heroic virtues of the old Covenanters ...

... many excellent geological treatises, and is frequent contributor to the Liberal Glasgow press. occasionally composes sweet poetry, and many of his pretty songs have appeared in the Argus, He also writes for the Scottish Patriot, and we lately saw a letter ...