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...ging by Tobias Smollett. This was the Weekly Poetry project for November 21st, 2010. Tobias George Smollett (19 March 1721 – 17 September 1771) was a Scottish poet and author. He was best known for his picaresque novels, such as The Adventures of Roderick Random (1748) and The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle (1751), which influenced later novelists such as Charles Dickens....

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Literature, Music, Poetry, Romance

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... legs, and, ascending above the calf, left the knees bare, like those of a Scottish Highlander. T o make the jacket sit yet more close to the body, it... ...ell whether the Saxon war-cry was not heard as far within the ranks of the Scottish host as the cri de guerre of the boldest Norman baron. To the memo... ... riders. As the procession entered the lists, the sound of a wild Barbaric music was heard from behind the tents of the challengers, where the perform... ... lances! stand forth gallant knights, fair eyes look upon your deeds!” The music also of the challengers breathed from time to time wild bursts expres... ... over- thrown two knights, and foiled a third. At length, as the Saracenic music of the challengers con- cluded one of those long and high flourishes ... ...ter, sometimes broken by screams, and sometimes by wild strains of distant music. All these sounds, intimating the disorderly state of the town, crowd... ...ce of Godfrey’s quali- ties should not be bound by the ordinary rules. The Scottish Nisbet, and the same Ferne, insist that the chiefs of the Cru- sad... ...ecclesiastics, but in lay impropriators of the church revenues, or, as the Scottish law- yers called them, titulars of the temporalities of the benefi... ...uld be devised to give an appearance of novelty to subsequent productions. Scottish manners, Scottish dialect, and Scottish characters of note, being ...

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...tionately Welcomed by a Sister, 28 -- A Mathematical Problem, 29 -- Honour, 32 -- On Imitation, 34 -- Inside the Coach, 35 -- Devonshire Roads, 36 -- Music, 37 -- Sonnet: On Quitting School for College, 38 -- Absence: A Farewell Ode on Quitting School for Jesus College, Cambridge, 39 -- Happiness, 40 -- A Wish: Written in Jesus Wood, Feb. 10, 1792, 43 -- An Ode in the Mann...

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... . . . . . . 36 Devonshire Roads . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Music . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Sonnet: On Quitting School for College ... ... II . . . . . . . . . 222 Lines to W. L. while he sang a Song to Purcell’s Music . . . . . . . . . . . 223 Fire, Famine, and Slaughter A War Eclogu... ... healthful breeze, All Nature charm, and gay was every hour: — But ah! not Music’s self, nor fragrant bower Can glad the trembling sense of wan Dis... ...g, Alight upon thee, damnØd Bog! - 36 - Devonshire Roads Coleridge: Poems Music 1791 Hence, soul-dissolving Harmony That lead’st th’ oblivio... ...d while old Otter’s steeple rings, Clappest hoarse thy raven wings! - 37 - Music Coleridge: Poems Sonnet: On Quitting School for College 1791... ...cian, blind and grey, (Whom stretching from my nurse’s arms I kissed,) His Scottish tunes and warlike marches play, By moonshine, on the balmy summ...

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...g in the land of Nod. T ry as I like to find the way, I never can get back by day, Nor can remember plain and clear The curious music that I hear. XVI... ... at home, When children are happy and playing alone. He lies in the laurels, he runs on the grass, He sings when you tinkle the musical glass; Whene’e... .... We, so much older, Taller and stronger, We shall look down on the Birdies no longer. They shall go flying With musical speeches High ... ...nd screens, The gods and sacred bells, And the load-humming, twisted shells! The level of the parlour floor Was honest, homely, Scottish shore; But wh...

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...........................................................37 TABLE OF COMMON SCOTTISH VOWEL SOUNDS ........................................................ ...rth from thy dreamland thou, a dreamer, cam’st And in thine ears the olden music rang, And in thy mind the doings of the dead, And those heroic ages l... ...leep Toss gaping on the pillows. But O thou! Uprise and take thy pipe. Bid music flow, Strains by good thoughts attended, like the spring The swallows... ...ing, a being Trod the flowery April blithely for a while, Took his fill of music, joy of thought and seeing, Came and stayed and went, nor ever ceased... ...d the fire addressed its eveing hours. BOOK II. – In Scots TABLE OF COMMON SCOTTISH VOWEL SOUNDS ae } ae } = open A as in rare. a’ } au } = AW as in l...

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... you 23 recordings of A Wet Sheet and a Flowing Sea by Allan Cunningham. This was the Weekly Poetry project for March 4, 2012. Allan Cunningham was a Scottish poet and author. Cunningham was apprenticed to a stonemason, but gave his leisure to reading and writing imitations of old Scottish ballads. His prose is often spoiled by its misplaced and too ambitious rhetoric; his...

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Adventure, Music, Nature, Sea stories, Travel, Poetry

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...oad Till morning in the land of Nod.   Try as I like to find the way, I never can get back by day, Nor can remember plain and clear The curious music that I hear....

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...I say...” XXXVII. “My body which my dungeon is...” XXXVIII. “Say not of me that weakly I declined...” UNDERWOODS: II (In Scots) Table of Common Scottish Vowel Sounds I. The Maker to Posterity II. Ille Terrarum III. “When aince Aprile has fairly come...” IV. A Mile an’ a Bittock V. A Lowden Sabbath Morn VI. The Spaewife VII. The Blast—1875 VIII. The Counterbla...

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...Our music, our culture, our science, and our economic welfare all depend on a delicate balance between those ideas that are controlled and those that are free, between intellectual property and the public domain. In The Public Do...

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...a brilliant composer, not only educated me in composition and the history of musical borrowing but co-taught a class on musical borrowing that dramati... ...s, and Carol Rose. Kembrew McLeod and Siva Vaidhyanathan inspired my work on music and sampling. Peter Jaszi was named in my last book as the person w... ...to many of its members. Whitney Brous- sard told me the dirty secrets of the music industry. Daphne Keller—a former student and later a colleague—help... ...s a lowering of copying costs hurt every industry equally. Digital copies of music were a threat to the traditional music business, but digital copies... ... 8/28/08 11:04 AM Page 36 als had been nurtured on the philosophy of the Scottish Enlightenment and the history of the struggle against royal mono... ...temporaries, the underlying issue would have been familiar. The free- trade, Scottish Enlightenment thinkers of the eighteenth and nineteenth cen- tur... ...s a new turn, something that neither Jeffer- son nor the philosophers of the Scottish Enlightenment had thought of, something that goes beyond their c... ...The main thrust of the argument here is still firmly within the Jeffersonian, Scottish Enlightenment tradition. Jefferson does not wish to give the pat... ...ere is very good reason to believe that this attitude was dominant among the Scottish Enlightenment thinkers whose writings were so influential to the ...

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...for his Excellency, who being thus roused from his dreamy enjoyment of the music, carried young Ribaumont off with him to his cabinet, and there made ... ... de- tained the whole English party by an invitation to Walsingham to hear music in the Queen-mother’s apart- ments; and Berenger, following in the wa... ...found himself in a spacious hall, with a raised gallery at one end for the musicians, the walls decorated with the glorious paintings collected by Fra... ...rounding their necks like fairy wings; their light laugh mingling with the music, as they sat, stood, or walked in graceful attitudes conversing with ... ...ill at the great door at the foot of the stairs she encountered a gigantic Scottish archer, armed to the teeth. She touched his arm, and standing with... ... and where could they be had? His grand- mother had been the daughter of a Scottish nobleman in the French service, and he had once seen a nephew of h... ...nger above mentioned, begged him to find out from Sir Robert Melville, the Scottish En- voy, all he could about the family whose designation he wrote ... ...rriage. This was Ambroise’s usual entrance, and it was merely guarded by a Scottish archer, who probably observed noth- ing. They then mounted the sto... ...eir ministry. There then was convoked the National Synod, answering to the Scottish General Assembly, excepting that the perse- cuted French Presbyter...