The College Album [afterw.] The Glasgow University Album. 1828,36,54,69,74. [the Issues for 1869 and 1874 are Separately Entitled The Old College, and New College].various publishers, 1836 |
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... own inexperience , or to disarm the severity of criticism , by allusions to circumstances certainly not the most favourable to pursuits of this nature . They are aware that by the intrinsic merits of the work they must stand or fall.
... own inexperience , or to disarm the severity of criticism , by allusions to circumstances certainly not the most favourable to pursuits of this nature . They are aware that by the intrinsic merits of the work they must stand or fall.
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University of Glasgow. intrinsic merits of the work they must stand or fall , independently of every adventitious consideration ; and that they are only warranted in obtruding themselves upon public attention , by a reasonable prospect ...
University of Glasgow. intrinsic merits of the work they must stand or fall , independently of every adventitious consideration ; and that they are only warranted in obtruding themselves upon public attention , by a reasonable prospect ...
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... HEARING OF COLERIDGE ' S DEATH , THE THEBAN SACRED BAND , . SONNET , . . THE BRIDE OF GLENGARE , GLENGARE , . . . . LINES SENT TO A LADY WITH A CUP AND BALL , THE FALL OF THE ROSSBERG , THE PRIME CIGAR , . . Page 78 A NIGHT SCENE , . . . .
... HEARING OF COLERIDGE ' S DEATH , THE THEBAN SACRED BAND , . SONNET , . . THE BRIDE OF GLENGARE , GLENGARE , . . . . LINES SENT TO A LADY WITH A CUP AND BALL , THE FALL OF THE ROSSBERG , THE PRIME CIGAR , . . Page 78 A NIGHT SCENE , . . . .
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... ropes by which the piles are bound to the waggon , the piles will forthwith fall , and to shut the gate will be impossible . A select band led on by me will instantly rush in at the gate , and fight face to face with the South ' ron . 22.
... ropes by which the piles are bound to the waggon , the piles will forthwith fall , and to shut the gate will be impossible . A select band led on by me will instantly rush in at the gate , and fight face to face with the South ' ron . 22.
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... falling piles is the signal for Douglas to advance . Firmly and silently the gallant men move onward , and ere they are yet within the gate , Ridgley with his axe has slain the porter before he can sound the alarm ; still the besiegers ...
... falling piles is the signal for Douglas to advance . Firmly and silently the gallant men move onward , and ere they are yet within the gate , Ridgley with his axe has slain the porter before he can sound the alarm ; still the besiegers ...
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Page 125 - Risest from forth thy silent sea of pines, How silently! Around thee and above Deep is the air and dark, substantial, black, An ebon mass: methinks thou piercest it, As with a wedge! But when I look again, It is thine own calm home, thy crystal shrine, Thy habitation from eternity! 0 dread and silent Mount! I gazed upon thee, Till thou, still present to the bodily sense, Didst vanish from my thought : entranced in prayer 1 worshipped the Invisible alone.
Page 106 - Above me are the Alps, The palaces of Nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled in clouds their snowy scalps, And throned Eternity in icy halls Of cold sublimity, where forms and falls The avalanche — the thunderbolt of snow ! All that expands the spirit, yet appals, Gather around these summits, as to show How Earth may pierce to Heaven, yet leave vain man below, LXIII.
Page 122 - The sky is changed ! — and such a change ! Oh night, And storm, and darkness, ye are wondrous strong, Yet lovely in your strength, as is the light Of a dark eye in woman ! Far along, From peak to peak, the rattling crags among Leaps the live thunder ! Not from one lone cloud, But every mountain now hath found a tongue, And Jura answers, through her misty shroud, Back to the joyous Alps, who call to her aloud!
Page 103 - Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds; pleasant the sun, When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, Glistering with dew; fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers; and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening
Page 4 - Time rolls his ceaseless course. The race of yore, Who danced our infancy upon their knee, And told our marvelling boyhood legends store, Of their strange ventures happ'd by land or sea, How are they blotted from the things that be...
Page 93 - They crown'd him long ago On a throne of rocks, in a robe of clouds, With a diadem of snow.
Page 119 - What water) of the still unfrozen spring, In the loose marsh or solitary lake, Where the fresh fountain from the bottom boils. These check his fearful steps; and down he sinks Beneath the shelter of the shapeless drift, Thinking o'er all the bitterness of death, Mix'd with the tender anguish Nature shoots Thro' the wrung bosom of the dying Man, His wife, his children, and his friends unseen. In vain for him th...
Page 2 - Caesar, and Denmark, and Rome, and the world. When kings of the nations in council assemble, The frown of my brow makes their proud hearts to quake ; The flash of mine eye makes the bravest to tremble, The sound of my war song makes armies to shake.
Page 122 - The unconquerable lightning struggles through, Ragged and fierce, or in red whirling balls, And fires the mountains with redoubled rage. Black from the stroke, above, the...
Page 129 - BO revered should die—- Calm Resignation clasps a Saviour's cross, And mourns, but does not murmur at the loss. 'Twas there her meek and lowly soul was taught To seek the heavenly crown his blood had bought 'Twas thence, in mercy, beamed the welcome ray, Which cheered with hope the aged pilgrim's way. This mouldering dust shall here repoee in peace, Till that great day, when time itself shall cease.