Doesn't the himmortal bard observe how sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child?

"Then up rose our bard, like a prophet in drink, Craigdoroch, thou'lt soar when creation shall sink.

I did so, and found them pretty exact, George, speaking of the dead Ossian, exclaimeth, "Dark are the poet's eyes," I humbly represented to him that his own eyes were dark, and many a living bard's besides, and recommended "Clos'd are the poet's eyes."

Now, as Joseph Cottle, a Bard of Nature, sings, going up Malvern Hills, "How steep, how painful the ascent!

I begged to know the reason of his ejaculation, thinking that time had by this time softened down any calamities which the bard might have endured.

Company is not play, but many times bard work.

Our bard, exalted in a freeborn flame, To every nation would transfer this claim: He to no state, no climate, bounds his page, But bids the moral beam through every age.

As erst the bard by Mulla's silver stream, Oft, as he told of deadly dolorous plight, Sighed as he sung, and did in tears indite.

* * Yet nursed with skill, what dazzling fruits appear! Even now sagacious foresight points to show A little bench of heedless bishops here, And there a chancellor in embryo, Or bard sublime, if bard may e'er be so, As Milton, Shakespeare, names that ne'er shall die!

* * Yet nursed with skill, what dazzling fruits appear! Even now sagacious foresight points to show A little bench of heedless bishops here, And there a chancellor in embryo, Or bard sublime, if bard may e'er be so, As Milton, Shakespeare, names that ne'er shall die!

Where is the bard whose soul can now Its high presuming hopes avow?

While cloistered Piety displays Her mouldering roll, the piercing eye explores New manners, and the pomp of elder days, Whence culls the pensive bard his pictured stores.

THE BARD I. 1 'Ruin seize thee, ruthless king!

Soon shall he lie in the narrow house, and no bard shall raise his fame!

The qualities that go to make up an epic poem are all to be found in this work of the Persian bard.

In referring to sums of money due him he had ever been wont to chant them with a bard-like inflation that recognized only sums of a vague but immense rotundity.

I pass each day where Dante's bones are laid; A little cupola, more neat than solemn, Protects his dust; but reverence here is paid To the bard's tomb and not the warrior's column.

Thee the harass'd brain And aching heart with fond orisons greet; The respite thou of toil; the balm of pain; To thoughtful mind the hour for musing meet, 'Tis then the sage from forth his lone retreat, The rolling universe around espies; 'Tis then the bard may hold communion sweet With lovely shapes unkenned by grosser eyes, And quick perception comes of finer mysteries.

'They said that a great family had a bard and a senachi, who were the poet and historian of the house; and an old gentleman told me that he remembered one of each.

Another conversation informed me that the same man was both bard and senachi.

Soon after I was told by a gentleman, who is generally acknowledged the greatest master of Hebridian antiquities, that there had, indeed, once been both bards and senachies; and that senachi signified the man of talk, or of conversation; but that neither bard nor senachi had existed for some centuries.'

In the small compass of a grave; In endless night they sleep, unwept, unknown, No bard had they to make all time their own.' FRANCIS.

These legends are only exaggerations of real occurrences, and every literature contains these high compliments to the art of the orator and the bard, from the Hebrew and the Greek down to the Scottish Glenkindie, who "harpit a fish out o' saut water, Or water out of a stone, Or milk out of a maiden's breast Who bairn had never none.

See Eighteenth-century literature Aurora Leigh ([a:]-r[=o]'rä l[=e]) Austen, Jane; life; novels; Scott's criticism of Bacon, Francis; life; works; place and influence Bacon, Roger Ballad, the Ballads and Sonnets Barchester Towers Bard, The Bard of the Dimbovitza (dim-bo-vitz'ä), Roumanian folk songs Battle of Agincourt (English, [)a]j'in-k[=o]rt)

See Eighteenth-century literature Aurora Leigh ([a:]-r[=o]'rä l[=e]) Austen, Jane; life; novels; Scott's criticism of Bacon, Francis; life; works; place and influence Bacon, Roger Ballad, the Ballads and Sonnets Barchester Towers Bard, The Bard of the Dimbovitza (dim-bo-vitz'ä), Roumanian folk songs Battle of Agincourt (English, [)a]j'in-k[=o]rt)