The Works of the Late John Maclaurin ...editor, 1798 |
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Página 134 - Oft she rejects, but never once offends. Bright as the sun, her eyes the gazers strike, And, like the sun, they shine on all alike. Yet graceful ease, and sweetness void of pride, Might hide her faults, if belles had faults to hide: If to her share some female errors fall, Look on her face, and you'll forget them all.
Página vii - Charter-houfe in London. His exertions, however, were unavailing, for it happened that the former was too old, the latter too young, to be admitted. It was on this account refolved that our author mould be educated in Scotland ; and accordingly, at the ufual age, he was put to the high fchool of Edinburgh, to learn the rudiments of the Latin, language.
Página xxviii - ... Dreghorn. He died in 1796. As an author we have "An Essay on Literary Property ;" " A Collection of Criminal Cases ;" " An Essay on Patronage ;" and some poetical pieces, with three dramas, entitled " Hampden, " "The Public," and " The Philosopher's Opera." During the years 1792, 3, 4, and 5, lord Dreghorn kept a journal, or diary, in which he recorded the various events that happened in Europe during those years. From this journal he made a selection for publication : and in 1799 a selection...
Página 22 - Edinburgh : Infra situs est COLIN MACLAURIN, Mathes. olim in Acad. Edin. Prof. Electus ipso Newtono suadente. HLPF Non ut nomini paterno consulat, Nam tali auxilio nil eget ; Sed ut in hoc infelici campo, Ubi luctus regnant et pavor, Mortalibus prorsus non absit solatium : Hujus enim scripta evolve, Mentemque tantarum rerum capacem Corpori caduco superstitem crede.
Página 31 - Aonial hill Is not auriferous, nor fit to bear the farinaceous food, support of bards, Carnivorous but seldom ; yet the soil Which Hippocrene humectates, nothing yields But sterile laurels and aquatics sour. To dulcify th...
Página 154 - Let the brave chiefs their glorious toils divide ; And whose the conquest, mighty Jove decide : While we from interdicted fields retire, Nor tempt the wrath of heaven's avenging sire.
Página xxxi - By her perfuafions, it feems, he was inftigated to attack the author of Douglas; it is not probable he would have written this fatire from any other motive. Though a man may fometimes write to indulge his fancy without meaning to offend, Mr MacLaurin's liberal mind could never have fuffered him thus publicly to attack a man for his opinions, or...
Página xxxii - Editor is determined never to publifh it. Of the merit of either the poetical or profe works, the Editor inclines to fay nothing, for the critical reader will, no doubt, judge with impartiality and temper, of a pofthumous publication.
Página viii - Muses, and it may therefore be thought surprising that he did not exert his talents more than he has done, and that what he has written is chiefly upon local subjects, and such as probably in these times will not please the republic of letters.
Página vi - The former was indted a great one ; but, to our author and his brother, on account of their youth, of little avail : the latter yielded no more than a bare competence for the education and maintenance of the family. The attention and...