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... poems , in which he shews how well he could imitate all the Roman poets , in their several ways of writing , that he who compares them , will be often tempt- ed to prefer the copy to the original , ) that he is justly reckoned the ...
... poems , in which he shews how well he could imitate all the Roman poets , in their several ways of writing , that he who compares them , will be often tempt- ed to prefer the copy to the original , ) that he is justly reckoned the ...
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... poems of Dr. Pitcairne , " he eagerly embraced an opportunity of asserting the honour of his native land ; and the same topics were yet fresh in his recollection when he resumed his long labours at the venerable age of eighty - one ...
... poems of Dr. Pitcairne , " he eagerly embraced an opportunity of asserting the honour of his native land ; and the same topics were yet fresh in his recollection when he resumed his long labours at the venerable age of eighty - one ...
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... poems ascrib- ed to Buchanan , occur among the Cotton MSS . preserved in the British Museum ; but some of them have been mutilated by the unfortunate conflagration of 1731 . excipias , nullus ostendi posset , qui toties præla ...
... poems ascrib- ed to Buchanan , occur among the Cotton MSS . preserved in the British Museum ; but some of them have been mutilated by the unfortunate conflagration of 1731 . excipias , nullus ostendi posset , qui toties præla ...
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... poem which ren- dered him extremely obnoxious to the ecclesias- tics , an order of men whom it is generally hazard- ous to provoke . In ... Poems , p . 25. Edinb . 1770 , 12mo . fathers , when they became acquainted with this specimen of 16.
... poem which ren- dered him extremely obnoxious to the ecclesias- tics , an order of men whom it is generally hazard- ous to provoke . In ... Poems , p . 25. Edinb . 1770 , 12mo . fathers , when they became acquainted with this specimen of 16.
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... poems . Notwithstanding the complexion of his religious sentiments , he was admitted to the hos- pitable and elegant table of Gavin Dunbar , arch- bishop of Glasgow ; who probably was not aware that his inviting Buchanan to a banquet ...
... poems . Notwithstanding the complexion of his religious sentiments , he was admitted to the hos- pitable and elegant table of Gavin Dunbar , arch- bishop of Glasgow ; who probably was not aware that his inviting Buchanan to a banquet ...
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Page 257 - Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks : methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam...
Page xi - Buchanan ; and he, too, seems to have been the first scholar who caught from the ancients the noble flame of republican enthusiasm. This praise is merited by his neglected though incomparable tract, ' De Jure Regni,' in which the principles of popular politics, and the maxims of a free government, are delivered with a precision, and enforced with an energy, which no former age had equalled, and no succeeding has surpassed.
Page 293 - Latin poesy,' says this mild contemporary, 'much honoured in other countries, pleasant in conversation, rehearsing at all occasions moralities short and instructive, whereof he had abundance, inventing where he wanted. He was also religious, but was easily abused, and so facile, that he was led by every company that he haunted, which made him factious in his old days, for he spoke and wrote as those who were about him informed him; for he was become careless, following in many things the vulgar opinion;...
Page 235 - ... if there be found in his book one sentence of a venturous edge, uttered in the height of zeal, and who knows whether it might not be the dictate of a divine spirit, yet not suiting with every low decrepit humor of their own, though it were Knox himself, the reformer of a kingdom...
Page 161 - ANE DETECTIOUN OF THE DUINGES OF MARIE QUENE OF SCOTTES, touchand the murder of hir husband, and hir conspiracie, adulterie, and pretensed mariage with the Erie Bothwell, And ane defence of the trew Lordis, mainteineris of the Kingis graces actioun and authoritie. Translatit out of the Latine quhilke was written by GB With oval portrait of Mary Queen of Scots by G.
Page 170 - ... the cat. His venerable preceptor, who might have pardoned the remark, was perhaps offended with the mode in which it was uttered : he threw aside his book with indignation, and bestowed upon the delinquent that species of scholastic discipline which is deemed most ignominious. The Countess of Mar, being attracted by the wailing which ensued, hastened to the scene of his disgrace ; and, taking the precious deposit in her arms, she demanded of Buchanan, how he presumed to lay his hand on the Lord's...
Page 308 - Turnebus, who was associated with him in the same college, and whose decisions will not be rashly controverted, has characterized him as a man of consummate erudition. Most of the ancient writers had limited their aspiring hopes to one department of literature; and even to excel in one demands the happy perseverance of a cultivated genius.
Page 235 - Yet if these things be not resented seriously and timely by them who have the remedy in their power, but that such...
Page 246 - Although the bounty of nature and the instruction of your governors may at present secure you against this error, yet am I compelled to entertain some slight degree of suspicion, lest evil communication — the alluring nurse of the vices — should lend an unhappy impulse to your still tender mind, especially as I am not ignorant with what facility the external
Page 168 - My Lady Mar was wise and sharp, and held the king in great awe, and so did Mr. George Buchanan. Mr. Peter Young was more gentle, and was...