The Life and Land of BurnsJ & H.G. Langley, 1841 - 363 strán (strany) |
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Strana 3
... give us repeated ap- proximations . His former biographers have done something , no doubt , but by no means a great deal , to assist us . Dr. Currie and Mr. Walker , the principal of these writers , have both , we think , mistaken one ...
... give us repeated ap- proximations . His former biographers have done something , no doubt , but by no means a great deal , to assist us . Dr. Currie and Mr. Walker , the principal of these writers , have both , we think , mistaken one ...
Strana 4
... gives more insight , we think , into the true character of Burns , than any prior biography , though , being written on the very popular and condensed scheme of an article for Constable's Miscellany , it has less depth than we could ...
... gives more insight , we think , into the true character of Burns , than any prior biography , though , being written on the very popular and condensed scheme of an article for Constable's Miscellany , it has less depth than we could ...
Strana 12
... give heed to him . In culture , in extent of view , we may stand above the speaker , or below him ; but in either case , his words , if they are can ; earnest and sincere , will find some response within us 12 CRITICAL ESSAY .
... give heed to him . In culture , in extent of view , we may stand above the speaker , or below him ; but in either case , his words , if they are can ; earnest and sincere , will find some response within us 12 CRITICAL ESSAY .
Strana 21
... gives no sure indication of the higher endowments that may exist along with it . In all the three cases we have ... give a humble but the readiest proof . Who ever uttered sharper sayings than his ; words more memorable , now by ...
... gives no sure indication of the higher endowments that may exist along with it . In all the three cases we have ... give a humble but the readiest proof . Who ever uttered sharper sayings than his ; words more memorable , now by ...
Strana 37
... give to any man ; seeks for contentment , not within himself , in action and wise effort , but from without , in the kind- ness of circumstances , in love , friendship , honor , pecu- niary ease . He would be happy , not actively and in ...
... give to any man ; seeks for contentment , not within himself , in action and wise effort , but from without , in the kind- ness of circumstances , in love , friendship , honor , pecu- niary ease . He would be happy , not actively and in ...
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auld banks bard beauty Birks of Aberfeldy bonnie Brig brother Burns's called charms composed Dalswinton dear sir Doon Dugald Stewart Dumfries Earl of Glencairn Edinburgh elegant Ellisland fair fame fancy farm farmer father favorite feeling genius Glencairn grace hand happy heart heaven Highland honor hope humble humor inspired Jacobitism John John Anderson Kilmarnock kind kirk lady land lasses letter light lived look Lord lyric Mauchline mind moral Mossgiel mother muse native nature never night Nith Nithsdale noble perhaps pleasure plough poems poet poet's poetic poetry poor rhyme Robert Burns rustic satire says scene Scotland Scottish seems sentiments Shanter song soul spirit strain stream sweet Tarbolton taste things Thomson thou thought tion true verse voice walk Wallace wife WILLIAM DUNBAR wonder words write written wrote young
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Strana 175 - E'en drown'd himsel amang the nappy. As bees flee hame wi' lades o' treasure, The minutes wing'd their way wi' pleasure: Kings may be blest but Tam was glorious, O'er a' the ills o
Strana 312 - Our toils obscure, and a' that; The rank is but the guinea's stamp, The Man's the gowd for a' that. What though on hamely fare we dine, Wear hoddin gray, and a' that; Gie fools their silks, and knaves their wine. A Man's a Man for a
Strana 187 - O' my sweet Highland Mary. How sweetly bloom'd the gay green birk, How rich the hawthorn's blossom, As underneath their fragrant shade I clasp'd her to my bosom ! The golden hours on angel wings Flew o'er me and my dearie; For dear to me as light and life Was my sweet Highland Mary. Wi' mony a vow and lock'd embrace Our parting was fu' tender; And pledging aft to meet again, We tore oursels asunder; But, Oh!
Strana 221 - John Anderson my jo. John Anderson my jo, John, We clamb the hill thegither ; And mony a canty day, John, We've had wi' ane anither : Now we maun totter down, John, But hand in hand we'll go, And sleep thegither at the foot, John Anderson my jo.
Strana 166 - There was a strong expression of sense and shrewdness in all his lineaments ; the eye alone, I think, indicated the poetical character and temperament. It was large, and of a dark cast, and glowed (I say literally glowed] when he spoke with feeling or interest. I never saw such another eye in a human head, though I have seen the most distinguished men in my time.
Strana 261 - With friendship, peace, and contemplation join'd, How many, rack'd with honest passions, droop In deep retir'd distress. How many stand Around the death-bed of their dearest friends, And point the parting anguish. Thought fond man Of these, and all the thousand nameless ills, That one incessant struggle render life, One scene of toil, of suffering, and of fate...
Strana 73 - In my infant and boyish days, too, I owed much to an old woman who resided in the family, remarkable for her ignorance, credulity, and superstition. She had, I suppose, the largest collection in the country of tales and songs concerning devils, ghosts, fairies, brownies, witches, warlocks, spunkies, kelpies, elf-candles, dead-lights, wraiths, apparitions, cantraips, giants, enchanted towers, dragons, and other trumpery.
Strana 134 - They reel'd, they set, they cross'd, they cleekit, Till ilka carlin swat and reekit, And coost her duddies to the wark, And linket at it in her sark! Now Tam, O Tam, had thae been queans, A' plump and strapping in their teens! Their sarks, instead o' creeshie flannen, Been snaw-white seventeen hunder linen!
Strana 23 - We know nothing, or next to nothing, of the substance or structure of our souls, so cannot account for those seeming caprices in them, that one should be particularly pleased with this thing, or struck with that, which, on minds of a different cast, makes no extraordinary impression. I have some...
Strana 45 - ... talents. His features are represented in Mr Nasmyth's picture, but to me it conveys the idea that they are diminished as if seen in perspective. I think his countenance was more massive than it looks in any of the portraits.