Aberdeen University Review, Volumes 15-16Aberdeen University Press, 1928 - World War, 1914-1918 Includes provisional roll of service of the university in the European war, 1914-June 30, 1915 (2 p. l., 84 p.) appended to v. 2. |
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Page 27 - EPITAPH. ON THE COUNTESS OF PEMBROKE. UNDERNEATH this sable hearse Lies the subject of all verse, Sidney's sister, Pembroke's mother : Death, ere thou hast slain another, Fair, and learned, and good as she, Time shall throw a dart at thee.
Page 213 - O'er all there hung a shadow and a fear, A sense of mystery the spirit daunted, And said, as plain as whisper in the ear, The place is haunted...
Page 42 - GOD bless the king, I mean the faith's defender; God bless — no harm in blessing — the pretender; But who pretender is, or who is king, God bless us all — that's quite another thing.
Page 193 - O wad some pow'r the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us ! It wad frae monie a blunder free us And foolish notion : What airs in dress an' gait wad lea'e us, And ev'n Devotion ! ADDRESS TO EDINBURGH.
Page 5 - In summe, the world went with me. But nowe, this (something) kinde, but greatly curst woman, with whome I must now make an ill chaunge to take her for my mother; when I would crie A little drinke, Some bread and butter, I would go to bed : Peace, you little whore, would she say; learne to lie in the strawe, you are like : tarrie and be hanged, is meate so good cheape \ I will make you grate on a crust, ha, you monkie, you shall have butter with a birchen rod : then if I cried, take me up, clap, clap,...
Page 14 - SAY — what is worse than blank despair, 'Tis that sick hope too weak for flying, That plays at fast and loose with care, And wastes a weary life in dying. Though promise be a welcome guest, Yet may it be too late a comer, 'Tis but a cuckoo voice at best, The joy of spring, scarce heard in summer.
Page 210 - Ascanius: or, The Young Adventurer: a True History. Translated from a Manuscript privately handed about at the Court of Versailles. Containing a particular Account of all that happen'd to a certain Person during his Wanderings in the North, from his first Arrival there, in August 1745, to his final Escape September 19, in the following Year.
Page 7 - Forbes, with the number of thirty horse, or thereabout, and fifty or sixty foot. This was very observable, that as they came without any advertisement from us, so did they come in the most seasonable time, when we were well near spent, having been pursued very sharply from nine hours until then. After we had beat them several times off, and killed one of them, at last they were driving through the wall, at a place where we could get no sight of them ; and when they were almost gotten fully through,...
Page 216 - Stewart, late Lord Provost of Edinburgh before the High Court of Justiciary in Scotland, for Neglect of Duty and Misbehaviour in the Execution of his Office as Lord Provost of Edinburgh before and at the Time the Rebels got possession of that City in Sept., 1745, with the Proceedings in the Second Trial.
Page 114 - ... because he must ; that his poem is wrung from him by the subject which excites him, and that he possesses the imaginative experience embodied in his words just in so far as he has spoken them. In no sense is the poem the translation of his state of mind, for he does not know till he has said it, either what he wants to say or how he shall say it — two things which are admittedly one.