Christopher North: A Memoir of John Wilson, Late Professor of Moral Philosophy in the University of Edinburgh, Volúmenes1-2Edmonston and Douglas, 1862 - 499 páginas |
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Página 273 - CAPTAIN PATON'S LAMENT. By JAMES SCOTT, Esq. " Touch once more a sober measure, and let punch and tears be shed, For a prince of good old fellows, that, alack-a-day ! is dead ; For a prince of worthy fellows, and a pretty man also, That has left the Saltmarket in sorrow, grief, and wo. Oh ! we ne'er shall see the like of Captain Paton no mo ! II.
Página 24 - Wilson. — A MEMOIR OF GEORGE WILSON, MD, FRSE, Regius Professor of Technology in the University of Edinburgh. By his SISTER. New Edition. Crown 8vo. 6s. "An exquisite and touching portrait of a rare and beautiful spirit.
Página 98 - Yet it shall be: thou shalt lower to his level day by day, What is fine within thee growing coarse to sympathize with clay. As the husband is, the wife is: thou art mated with a clown, And the grossness of his nature will have weight to drag thee down.
Página 275 - Join all in chorus, jolly boys, and let punch and tears be shed, For this prince of good old fellows, that alack-a-day ! is dead ; , For this prince of worthy fellows, and a pretty man also, That has left the Saltmarket, in sorrow, grief, and woe ! For it ne'er shall see the like of Captain Paton no mo ! /. G.
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Página 57 - ... imagination and memory, with their cairns and kirks, their low-chimneyed huts and their high-turreted halls, their free-flowing rivers and lochs dashing like seas — we were all at once buried not in the Cimmerian gloom, but the cerulean glitter, of Oxford's ancient academic groves. The genius of the place fell upon us. Yes ! we hear now, in the renewed delight of the awe of our youthful spirit, the pealing organ in that chapel called the Beautiful ; we see the saints on the stained windows...
Página 146 - At last, yan o' them gat him round t' neck as he popped up at teal o' t' boat, an' Wilson taad him to kep a good hod, for he mud happen slip him agean. But what, it was nowt but yan ov his bit o' pranks, he was snurkin' an' laughin' all t' time. Wilson was a fine, gay, girt-hearted fellow, as strang as a lion, an' as lish as a trout, an' he hed sic antics as niwer man hed.
Página 274 - Which his maid dressed very fine ; There was also a little Malmsey, And a bottle of Bordeaux, Which between me and the Captain Passed nimbly to and fro. Oh ! I ne'er shall take pot-luck with Captain Paton no mo ! 7.
Página 261 - Oxford collegian, wi' a pale face and a black toozy head, but an e'e like an eagle's; and a sort o" lauch about the screwed-up mouth o' him that fules ca'ed no canny, for they couldna
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