My lov'd, my honour'd, much respected friend! No mercenary bard his homage pays; With honest pride, I scorn each selfish end, My dearest meed, a friend's esteem and praise: To you I sing, in simple Scottish lays, The lowly train in life's sequester'd... Specimens of the British poets - Página 316de British poets - 1809Visualização completa - Sobre este livro
| Robert Burns - 1856 - 728 páginas
...friend ! No mercenary bard his homage pays ; With honest pride, I scorn each selfish end : My clearest meed, a friend's esteem and praise. To you I sing,...in simple Scottish lays, The lowly train in life's sequestered scene ; The native feelings strong, the guileless ways ; What Aiken in a cottage would... | |
| Joseph William Jenks - 1856 - 574 páginas
...BURNS'S " COTTER'S SATURDAY NIGHT." Mr loved, my honored, much respected friend ! No mercenary bard bis 1 1`h 1 yon I sing, in simple Scottish lays, The lowly train in life's sequestered scene, The native feelings... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1848 - 786 páginas
...Xithside.1 THE COTTER'S SATURDAY NIGHT. Inscribed to Robert Aiken, Esq. My loved, my honor'd, much respected friend ! No mercenary bard his homage pays...Ah ! though his worth unknown, far happier there, I ween November chill blaws loud wi' angry sugh ; The shortening winter-day is near a close ; The miry... | |
| John Wilson - 1857 - 466 páginas
...friend Aiken, in the dedicatory stanza of the Cottar's Saturday Night, — " My loved, my honour'd, much respected friend ! No mercenary bard his homage pays...end, My dearest meed, a friend's esteem and praise." All that he hoped to make by the Kilmarnock edition was twenty pounds to carry him to the West Indies,... | |
| John Wilson - 1857 - 454 páginas
...friend Aiken, in the dedicatory stanza of the Cottar's Saturday Night, — " My loved, my honour'd, much respected friend ! No mercenary bard his homage pays...end, My dearest meed, a friend's esteem and praise." All that he hoped to make by the Kilmarnock edition was twenty pounds to carry him to the West Indies,... | |
| John Wilson - 1857 - 448 páginas
...friend Aiken, in the dedicatory stanza of the Cottar's Saturday Night, — " My loved, my honour'd, much respected friend ! No mercenary bard his homage pays...end, My dearest meed, a friend's esteem and praise." All that he hoped to make by the Kilmarnock edition was twenty pounds to carry him to the West Indies,... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1858 - 780 páginas
...COTTER'S SATURDAY NIGHT. Inscribed to Robert Jlikcn, Etq. My loved, my honor'd, much respected friend t No mercenary bard his homage pays; With honest pride...Ah ! though his worth unknown, far happier there, I ween November chill blaws loud wi' angry sugh ; The shortening winter-day is near a close ; The miry... | |
| James White - 1858 - 316 páginas
...companion to the fireside picture by Goldsmith of the Vicar of Wakefield. My lov'd, my honour'd, much respected friend ! No mercenary bard his homage pays...native feelings strong, the guileless ways ; What Aikin in a cottage would have been ; Ah ! tho' his worth unknown, far happier there, I ween ! November... | |
| 1858 - 460 páginas
...SATURDAY NIGHT. — Burn*. INSCRIBED TO ROBERT AIKSN, KSQ. MY loved, my honored, much respected friend I No mercenary bard his homage pays ; With honest pride...in simple Scottish lays, The lowly train in life's sequestered scene ; The native feelings strong, the guileless ways ; What Aiken in a cottage would... | |
| Robert Burns, James Currie - 1859 - 284 páginas
...with a disdainful smile, The short and simple annals of the poor.— Gray. MY loved, my honor'd, much respected friend ! No mercenary bard his homage pays...ways ; "What Aiken in a cottage would have been ; Ah ! tho' his worth unknown, far happier there, I ween. November chill blaws loud wi' angry sugh ;* The... | |
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