 | James Gibson - 1881 - 366 sayfa
...RECREATIONS OF LEISURE HOURS, a collection of Pieces in Prose and Verse, by Archibald M'Kay. [12-mo.] " At lucre or renown let others aim, I only wish to...gentle mind, Whom Nature's charms inspire, and love of human kind." BEATTIE'S MINSTREL. Kilmarnock: H. CRAWFORD & SON. 1844. Verses, "On seeing a fine Portrait... | |
 | René Louis Huchon - 1907 - 330 sayfa
...continued in all the editions. That blank, with your permission, shall now 1 Life of Beattie^ i., 337. be filled up ; and then the stanza will run thus:...gentle mind, Whom nature's charms inspire, and love of human kind. " It would give me no little pleasure to see in the same poem the names of Mrs Montagu... | |
 | Chauncey Brewster Tinker - 1915 - 332 sayfa
...The leisure hour is all that thou canst claim. But on this verse if Montagu should smile, New strains ere long shall animate thy frame. And her applause to me is more than fame ; 1 M. Forbes, p. 120. * Beattie, always nervous about bis Scotticisms, was flutteringly pleased, and... | |
 | 1879 - 652 sayfa
...pamphlet with the following title-page : — " Opuscules PoStiques, par 1'auteur de 1'Epitre i mon Pere. ' I only wish to please the gentle mind, Whom Nature's charms inspire and love of human kind.' DR. BEATTIE. A Chelsea : de I'imprimerie de Jaques et Thomas, at the Neat Houses, et se... | |
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Montagu should smile, New strains ere long shall animate thy frame. And her applause to me is more than fame ; For still with truth accords her taste refined. At lucre or renown let others aim, I only wish to please the gentle mind, Whom Nature's charms... 
