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共 69 题- SPARE HOURS
- BY JOHN BROWN, M. D.
- NOTE TO THE AMERICAN EDITION.
- CONTENTS.
- AUTHOR'S PREFACE.
- J. B.
- POST PREFACE.
- INDUCTION AND DEDUCTION.
- BOOKS REFERRED TO.
- SOUTHEY.
- TOBY
- WYLIE.
- RAB.
- WASP
- JOCK
- DUCHIE
- DICK
- You have ample time to linger there amid
- LETTER TO JOHN CAIRNS, D. D.
- 23 RUTLAND STREET, _15th August, 1860._
- And when she looked out on us clear and full, "Yes--
- And changing "though" into "if:"
- LINDSAY.
- But still--
- J. BROWN.
- DUNTRUNE, _April 1859._
- MY DEAREST MRS. GILLIES,
- MRS. RAMSAY SPELDIN.
- Here are at random some extracts from the others:--
- Here is a bit of Sir Walter--
- Then taking down _Chambers's Scottish Songs_, he read aloud:--
- MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING.
- And again in XIX.:--
- Here, too, it is, LXVI.:--
- Burns to "Mary in Heaven;" and two pieces of Vaughan--one beginning
- Our young author thus goes on:--
- We can more easily imagine him as one of those Sprites--
- The following lines conclude an invitation to a friend:--
- In "The Retreate," he thus expresses this passionate love of Nature--
- THE TIMBER.
- THE WORLD.
- MAN.
- COCK-CROWING.
- PROVIDENCE.
- THE DAWNING.
- THE LAW AND THE GOSPEL.
- HOLY SCRIPTURES.
- Referring to Nicodemus visiting our Lord:--
- THE NIGHT. (JOHN iii. 2.)
- At the end he has these striking words--
- DEATH.
- THE WATER-FALL.
- THE SHOWER.
- Here are some of "V.'s" Roses--
- THE GRAVE.
- We have only space for one more--verses entitled "Heart's-Ease."
- HEART'S-EASE.
- ODE TO PSYCHE.
- ODE TO PSYCHE.
- AN ARGUMENT IN RHYME.
- I.
- II.
- III.
- TENNYSON.
- KING JOHN.
- THE BROWNIE OF BLEDNOCH.
- BEAUTY, ABSOLUTE AND RELATIVE.
- THE END.
- CAMBRIDGE: PRINTED BY H. O. HOUGHTON.