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)

The deeps of the sky are mottled with singing wings of every tone and color; clouds of brilliant chrysididae dancing and swirling in exquisite rhythm, golden-barred vespidae, dragon-flies, butterflies, grating cicadas, and jolly, rattling grasshoppers, fairly enameling the light.

Bruce was beforehand with her and barred the way, standing with his arms outstretched and his back to the door.

This van was bolted and barred, and accompanied by a squad of Persian police, whose orders seemed to be not to lose sight of it.

They crossed the Apennines with great labour and difficulty, to find their passage barred by the confederates on the Emilian plain near the village of Fornovo.

Dawn broke, a watery glimmer through the high barred window.

And yet these commercial peoples barred their gates to him!

" The two young men pulled up their horses, and looked down at the wide-spreading building in all the beauty of its dazzling whiteness, and at the lovely grounds, dotted with fountain and with statue, and barred with hedge and with walk, stretching away to the dense woods which clustered round them.

Shuffling along, they made their way down three successive corridors and through three doors, each of which was locked and barred behind them.

To most any return to their native country is completely barred, and they do not therefore nurse the hope, so inveterately cherished by the Italians, for instance, that they may some day be able to go back.

The road to the front-door was barred, and with a final yelp that set her employer's teeth on edge she dashed into the yard and went home via the back-fences.

In the second half of the eighteenth century this region had come to be occupied in scattered homesteads by migrants moving overland from Pennsylvania, Maryland and Virginia, extending their régime of frontier farms until the stubborn Creek and Cherokee Indian tribes barred further progress.

The scouts had parted on their search, The castle gates were barred; Above the gloomy portal arch, Timing his footsteps to a march, The warden kept his guard; Low humming, as he passed along, Some ancient border-gathering song.

Its front was barred by tumbled masonry, but a well-placed shell had widely breached its side wall.

The learning was exclusively scholastic, and from any share in that women were barred.

The enemy had not followed up its advantages, and the Belgian troops, aided by French marines and other French troops who now arrived in greater numbers, thrust them back and barred the way to Dunkirk.

Scraps of paper were pasted on the barred-up fronts.

In spite of obstacles, Charlotte Brontë's took hold of every man and woman that crossed and barred its path, and ultimately it avenged itself on Monsieur and on Madame Héger.

The doors had been found barred and locked as usual; but no sign of any thing of the sort was discernible.

The descendants of imperial slaves, free-born Moslems, but barred from the glory and profits of their fathers' function, had gradually become a very numerous class of country gentlemen distributed over all parts of the empire, and a very malcontent one.

It was barred and closed.

This was plainly the night encampment of a traveling party, and two French hunters and their attendant Abenaquis recognized that, as it barred their trail to the river.

All of these forces have held the ground for diversity and barred the way to universality.

The door of one of them was of heavy oak, bound in iron, with a barred opening at the top.

I had left nothing open behind me, and the outer doors of the house were always locked and barred.

Angry sunsets barred by lines of purple cirrus stratus; sweeps of desolate heath bounded by jagged peaks; steep mountain passes crimson with faded ferns and half-obscured by rain-clouds; strange studies of weeds, and rivers, and lonely reaches of desolate sea-shore ...