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Pagina 104 - Compared with this, how poor religion's pride, In all the pomp of method, and of art, When men display to congregations wide Devotion's every grace, except the heart!
Pagina 88 - Bears thwart the lake the scattered pine. Yet even this nakedness has power, And aids the feeling of the hour : Nor thicket, dell, nor copse you spy, Where living thing concealed might lie ; Nor point, retiring, hides a dell, Where swain, or woodman lone, might dwell ; There's nothing left to fancy's guess.
Pagina 87 - Whispering a mingled sentiment, 'Twixt resignation and content. Oft in my mind such thoughts awake, By lone St. Mary's silent lake ;:'' Thou know'st it well, — nor fen, nor sedge, Pollute the pure lake's crystal edge ; Abrupt and sheer, the mountains sink At once upon the level brink ; nnd just a trace of silver sand Marks where the water meets the land. Far in the mirror, bright and blue, Each hill's huge outline you may view...
Pagina 88 - Oft thrilled his heart at close of even, To see the dappled vales of heaven, With many a mountain, moor, and tree, Asleep upon the Saint Mary...
Pagina 181 - And a' the warld might ken right weel, They were twa lovers dear. But bye and rade the Black Douglas, And wow but he was rough ! For he pull'd up the bonny brier, And flang'd in St.
Pagina 181 - And they twa met, and they twa plat, And fain they wad be near; And a' the warld might ken right weel They were twa lovers dear.
Pagina 4 - ... successfully taken during a dull day and sharp breeze, approaching near to the edges of the loch, and swimming in a direction contrary to the wind. They spawn about the commencement of November, and at this time congregate in large shoals, frequently rising to the surface of the water, in the manner of the common Herring, and making a similar noise by their rise and fall to and from the surface. The sound may be distinctly heard, and the direction of the shoal perceived, during a calm and clear...
Pagina 151 - How glad were we, when after sunny showers Its voice came to us issuing from the school ! How fled the vacant, solitary hours, By dancing rivulet, or silent pool ! And still our souls retain in manhood's prime The love of joys our childish years that...
Pagina 151 - And first, I shall tell you what some have observed, and I have found it to be a real truth, that the very sitting by the river's side is not only the quietest and fittest place for contemplation, but will invite an Angler to it...