Excerpts from the Book 'The Modern Scottish Minstrel Volume Iv':

... real successors of Burns, it is thus manifest, were not Tannahill or Macneil, but Sir Walter Scott, Campbell, Aird, Delta, Galt, Allan Cunningham, ...
... 77. Heard ye the bagpipe. 78. Bruce's address, ...
... family of hawks, and owls, and ravens was too large not to cost us much toil, anxiety, and even sorrow. We fished in the Ettrick and the lesser streams. ...
... appreciated and improved. Any one who ever met the late essor in the midst of his own happy family, constituted as it was when I had this pleasure, ...
... merely express immediate thoughts and feelings of a more personal nature, but remarked with vigorous frankness upon many standard affairs of this scene ...
... of this life. In other words, they were acquainted with doctrines and principles whose application and use, whether in regard to thought, or ...
... lies,. And Coila's minstrel sang. For I've nae skill o' lands, my lads,. That ken nae to be free. Then Scotland's right, and Scotland's ...
... oft her household plays wad try,. To hide her illness frae our eye,. Lest she should grieve us farther. But ilka thing we said or ...
... dispositions, Jamieson was deeply regretted by his friends. He left a widow, who died lately in Dunfermline. His songs, of which two specimens are adduced, ...
... established himself as a coffee-roaster in the capital. He died in 1827. Of amiable dispositions, he was an agreeable and unassuming member of society. ...
... a poem of more matured power, was announced in 1824. At the recommendation of friends, having proceeded to Edinburgh to seek the counsel of men ...
... the sea,. Are but ashes in the shower. Still the jocund summer hour,. From his cloud will weave a bower. Over thee. When the voice of ...
... a' there's joy in confessing,. For my lips could repeat it a thousand times over,. And the tale still seem new to thy fond-hearted lover. WHEN ...
... reputation from the many commissions in which he served in France. (See L'Histoire Gnalogique et Chronologique des Chanceliers de France, tom. vi. ...
... hail to his comrades. the faithful and brave,. They fear'd not for falling, they knew no appalling,. But fought like their fathers, ...
... moisture of the leaves. In frolic flight from wing to wing,. Fretting the spider as he weaves. His airy web from bough to bough. In vain ...
... ours there cou'dna be,. Beside the bonnie rowan bush. In yon lane glen. Now my auld wife's gane awa'. Frae yon lane glen,. An' though ...
... comely cheek laid on my knee,. I plaited thy gowden hair. Oh. then I felt the holiest thocht. That e'er enter'd my mind-. It, Mary, was ...
... here, sporting there,. All the balmy sunny air. Is full of song. The harvest evening falls,. While each flower round the bower,. Breathing ...
... of the fleece, Defy the landward tempest's roar, and defy the seaward breeze. The streams they drink are waters of the ever-gushing well, Those streams, ...