The Complete Poetical Works of Thomas Campbell: With an Original Biography, and NotesPhillips, Sampson, 1854 - 479 pages |
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... true I slept on a bed of chaff , and my fare , as may be supposed , was not sumptuous ; but life was young within me . Pollock Shaws was at that time rural and delightful . The stocking - weaver's house was on a flat piece of ground ...
... true I slept on a bed of chaff , and my fare , as may be supposed , was not sumptuous ; but life was young within me . Pollock Shaws was at that time rural and delightful . The stocking - weaver's house was on a flat piece of ground ...
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... true that I carried away all the prizes , for I was idle in some of the classes , and , being obliged by my necessities to give elementary instruction to younger lads , my powers of attention were exhausted in teaching when I ought to ...
... true that I carried away all the prizes , for I was idle in some of the classes , and , being obliged by my necessities to give elementary instruction to younger lads , my powers of attention were exhausted in teaching when I ought to ...
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... true that we had promising spirits among us , and , in particular , could boast of Gregory Watt , son of the immortal Watt , a youth unparalleled in his early talent for eloquence . With me- lodious elocution , great acuteness in ...
... true that we had promising spirits among us , and , in particular , could boast of Gregory Watt , son of the immortal Watt , a youth unparalleled in his early talent for eloquence . With me- lodious elocution , great acuteness in ...
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... true , " he adds , " there are many emoluments ; but I declare to God that I can hardly spend , with a safe conscience , the little sum I made during my residence in Edinburgh ! " With these feelings , we may well suppose that the world ...
... true , " he adds , " there are many emoluments ; but I declare to God that I can hardly spend , with a safe conscience , the little sum I made during my residence in Edinburgh ! " With these feelings , we may well suppose that the world ...
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... true picture of my present situation and future prospects . " At Pimlico their first boy was born , and was christened Thomas Telford , after Campbell's old friend , who stood sponsor on the occa- sion . The young father's introduction ...
... true picture of my present situation and future prospects . " At Pimlico their first boy was born , and was christened Thomas Telford , after Campbell's old friend , who stood sponsor on the occa- sion . The young father's introduction ...
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Page 186 - Tis morn, but scarce yon level sun Can pierce the war-clouds, rolling dun, Where furious Frank, and fiery Hun, Shout in their sulphurous canopy. The combat deepens. On, ye brave, Who rush to glory, or the grave ! Wave, Munich ! all thy banners wave, And charge with all thy chivalry ! Few, few shall part where many meet ! The snow shall be their winding-sheet, And every turf beneath their feet Shall be a soldier's sepulchre.
Page 470 - There runs not a drop of my blood in the veins of any living creature. This called on me for revenge. I have sought it; I have killed many; I have fully glutted my vengeance. For my country, I rejoice at the beams of peace; but do not harbor a thought that mine is the joy of fear.
Page 178 - They are true to the last of their blood and their breath, And like reapers descend to the harvest of death. Then welcome be Cumberland's steed to the shock ! Let him dash his proud foam like a wave on the rock!
Page 196 - Twas autumn — and sunshine arose on the way To the home of my fathers, that welcomed me back. I flew to the pleasant fields traversed so oft In life's morning march, when my bosom was young ; I heard my own mountain-goats bleating aloft, And knew the sweet strain that the corn-reapers sung.
Page 185 - ON Linden, when the sun was low, All bloodless lay the untrodden snow, And dark as winter was the flow Of Iser, rolling rapidly. \ But Linden saw another sight, When the drum beat, at dead of night, Commanding fires of death to light The darkness of her scenery.
Page 188 - But the day-star attracted his eye's sad devotion, For it rose o'er his own native isle of the ocean, Where once, in the fire of his youthful emotion, He sang the bold anthem of Erin go bragh. Sad is my fate...
Page 181 - Our song and feast shall flow To the fame of your name, When the storm has ceased to blow, — When the fiery fight is heard no more, And the storm has ceased to blow.
Page 177 - LOCHIEL, Lochiel ! beware of the day When the Lowlands shall meet thee in battle array ! For a field of the dead' rushes red on my sight, And the clans of Culloden are scattered in fight. They rally, they bleed, for their kingdom and crown ; Woe, woe to the riders that trample them down ! Proud Cumberland prances, insulting the slain, And their hoof-beaten bosoms are trod to the plain.
Page 197 - And yet, fair bow, no fabling dreams, But words of the Most High, Have told why first thy robe of beams Was woven in the sky.
Page 115 - Departed spirits of the mighty dead! Ye that at Marathon and Leuctra bled! Friends of the world! restore your swords to man, Fight in his sacred cause, and lead the van! Yet for Sarmatia's tears of blood atone, And make her arm puissant as your own! Oh! once again to Freedom's cause return The patriot TELL — the BRUCE OF BANNOCKBURN!