Life of Robert BurnsW. Stodart, 1831 - 320 strán (strany) |
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Strana ix
... delight from the pro- portions of the Venus de Medicis , or the Apollo Belvidere , wander to the colossal but comparatively inelegant figure of the Elephant ? In divinity , the folios of Gill enjoy as profound a tranquil- lity as their ...
... delight from the pro- portions of the Venus de Medicis , or the Apollo Belvidere , wander to the colossal but comparatively inelegant figure of the Elephant ? In divinity , the folios of Gill enjoy as profound a tranquil- lity as their ...
Strana xix
... delight and estimation en- tertained for the poet . The letters of Burns interspersed in this volume , are , if there were no other attraction , inva- luable . The universally desired information respecting the family of Burns , is in ...
... delight and estimation en- tertained for the poet . The letters of Burns interspersed in this volume , are , if there were no other attraction , inva- luable . The universally desired information respecting the family of Burns , is in ...
Strana 29
... delighted him . When Burns was about thirteen or fourteen years old , his father sent him and Gilbert " week about , during a summer quarter , " to the parish school of Dalrymple , two or three miles distant from Mount Oliphant , for ...
... delighted him . When Burns was about thirteen or fourteen years old , his father sent him and Gilbert " week about , during a summer quarter , " to the parish school of Dalrymple , two or three miles distant from Mount Oliphant , for ...
Strana 38
... delighted with his warmth of heart , and conversational powers . He had indeed that dislike of dancing - schools which Robert men- tions ; but so far overcame it during Robert's first month of attendance , that he permitted the rest of ...
... delighted with his warmth of heart , and conversational powers . He had indeed that dislike of dancing - schools which Robert men- tions ; but so far overcame it during Robert's first month of attendance , that he permitted the rest of ...
Strana 40
... delight to enlarge on . Though , when young , he was bashful and awkward in his intercourse with women , yet when he approached manhood , his attachment to their society became very strong , and he was constantly the victim of some fair ...
... delight to enlarge on . Though , when young , he was bashful and awkward in his intercourse with women , yet when he approached manhood , his attachment to their society became very strong , and he was constantly the victim of some fair ...
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Strana 266 - He is a man speaking to men : a man, it is true, endowed with more lively sensibility, more enthusiasm and tenderness, who has a greater knowledge of human nature, and a more comprehensive soul, than are supposed to be common among mankind ; a man pleased with his own passions and volitions, and who rejoices more than other men in the spirit of life that is in him ; delighting to contemplate similar volitions and passions as manifested in the goings-on of the universe, and habitually impelled to...
Strana 104 - FLOW gently, sweet Afton, among thy green braes, Flow gently, I'll sing thee a song in thy praise ; My Mary's asleep by thy murmuring stream, Flow gently, sweet Afton, disturb not her dream. Thou stock-dove whose echo resounds thro...
Strana 184 - And mony a hill between ; But, day and night, my fancy's flight Is ever wi' my Jean. I see her in the dewy flowers, I see her sweet and fair : I hear her in the tunefu...
Strana 181 - To make a happy fire-side clime To weans and wife, That's the true pathos and sublime Of human life.
Strana 196 - I have some favourite flowers in spring, among which are the mountain-daisy, the harebell, the foxglove, the wild-brier rose, the budding birch, and the hoary hawthorn, that I view and hang over with particular delight.
Strana 48 - ... backwards and forwards in a moral and religious way. I am quite transported at the thought that ere long, perhaps very soon, I shall bid an eternal adieu to all the pains, and...
Strana 121 - I was a lad of fifteen in 1786-7, when he came first to Edinburgh, but had sense and feeling enough to be much interested in his poetry, and would have given the world to know him : but I had very little acquaintance with any literary people, and still less with the gentry of the west country, the two sets that he most frequented. Mr. Thomas Grierson was at that time a clerk of my father's. He knew Burns, and promised to ask him to his lodgings to dinner, but had no opportunity to keep his word ;...
Strana 97 - I had been for some days skulking from covert to covert, under all the terrors of a jail; as some ill-advised people had uncoupled the merciless pack of the law at my heels. I had taken the last farewell of my few friends; my chest was on the road to Greenock; I had composed the last song I should ever measure in Caledonia—"The gloomy night is gathering fast,
Strana 220 - It was little in Burns's character to let his feelings on certain subjects escape in this fashion. He, immediately after reciting these verses, assumed the sprightliness of his most pleasing manner ; and taking his young friend home with him, entertained him very agreeably till the hour of the ball arrived.
Strana 24 - This cultivated the latent seeds of poetry ; but had so strong an effect on my imagination, that to this hour, in my nocturnal rambles, I sometimes keep a sharp look-out in suspicious places : and though nobody can be more skeptical than I am in such matters, yet it often takes an effort of philosophy to shake off these idle terrors.