The Works of Robert Burns: General correspondence, including pieces of miscellaneous poetryT. Cadell and W. Davies, 1806 |
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Strana xxiii
... Dear Burns , thou brother of my heart , Fair fa ' the honest rustic swain , . • • Farewell thou fair day , thou green earth , and ye skies , Go fetch to me a pint o ' wine , How does my dear friend , much I languish to hear , How wisdom ...
... Dear Burns , thou brother of my heart , Fair fa ' the honest rustic swain , . • • Farewell thou fair day , thou green earth , and ye skies , Go fetch to me a pint o ' wine , How does my dear friend , much I languish to hear , How wisdom ...
Strana 1
... DEAR SIR , Lochlee , 15th January , 1783 . As I have an opportunity of sending you a letter , without putting you to that ex- pense which any production of mine would but ill repay , I embrace it with pleasure , to tell you that I have ...
... DEAR SIR , Lochlee , 15th January , 1783 . As I have an opportunity of sending you a letter , without putting you to that ex- pense which any production of mine would but ill repay , I embrace it with pleasure , to tell you that I have ...
Strana 4
... my compliments , for that is a meer common- place story , but my warmest , kindest wishes for her welfare ; and accept of the same for your- self , from , Dear Sir , Yours , & c . No. II . [ The following is taken from the 4.
... my compliments , for that is a meer common- place story , but my warmest , kindest wishes for her welfare ; and accept of the same for your- self , from , Dear Sir , Yours , & c . No. II . [ The following is taken from the 4.
Strana 18
... dear relation of children , whom I deserted in the smiling innocency of helpless in- fancy ? O thou great , unknown Power ! thou Almighty God ! who has lighted up reason in my my breast , and blessed me with immortality ! I 18.
... dear relation of children , whom I deserted in the smiling innocency of helpless in- fancy ? O thou great , unknown Power ! thou Almighty God ! who has lighted up reason in my my breast , and blessed me with immortality ! I 18.
Strana 29
... DEAR SIR , I OUGHT to have acknowledged your favour long ago , not only as a testimony of your kind remembrance , but as it gave me an opportunity of sharing one of the finest , and , perhaps , one of the most genuine entertain- ments ...
... DEAR SIR , I OUGHT to have acknowledged your favour long ago , not only as a testimony of your kind remembrance , but as it gave me an opportunity of sharing one of the finest , and , perhaps , one of the most genuine entertain- ments ...
Časté výrazy a frázy
acquaintance admired Anno Domini Ayrshire ballad bard beautiful believe Blacklock bosom character charming compliments copy criticisms dare DEAR SIR Dumfries DUNLOP Earl Earl granted Earl of Glencairn Earl of Mar Edinburgh Ellisland esteem fame fancy fate favour favourite feel Fergusson Fintry follies fortune friendship genius gentleman give grateful gratitude happy hear heart honest hope House of Stewart human humble servant idea inclosed kind lady late letter lord lordship Lowrie Madam mankind Mauchline meer common merit mind Miss MOORE muse native nature never noble obliging Omeron patronage perhaps perusal pleased pleasure poems poet poetic poetry poor pride Reverend rhyme ROBERT BURNS Robert Fergusson Scotland Scottish sent sentiment shew sincerely song soon soul stanzas Stewart taste tell thee thing thou thought tion truly tune verses virtue wish write
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Strana 63 - No sculptured marble here, nor pompous lay, 'No storied urn nor animated bust;' This simple stone directs pale Scotia's way To pour her sorrows o'er her poet's dust.
Strana 253 - Man, this is one of the most extraordinary, that he shall go on from day to day, from week to week, from month to month...
Strana 197 - I have some favourite flowers in spring, among which are the mountain-daisy, the hare-bell, the fox-glove, the wild-brier rose, the budding birch, and the hoary hawthorn, that I view and hang over with particular delight.
Strana 447 - ... disfigure them, are yet, I am convinced, original and component parts of the human soul ; those senses of the mind, if I may be allowed the expression, which connect us with, and link us to, those awful obscure realities — an allpowerful, and equally beneficent God ; and a world to come, beyond death and the grave.
Strana 196 - Bagdat in order to pass the rest of the day in meditation and prayer. As I was here airing myself on the tops of the mountains, I fell into a profound contemplation on the vanity of human life; and, passing from one thought to another, surely, said I, man is but a shadow and life a dream.
Strana 11 - I believe, may be partly owing to my misfortunes giving my mind a melancholy cast : but there is something even in the ' Mighty tempest, and the hoary waste, Abrupt, and deep stretch'd o'er the buried earth," which raises the mind to a serious sublimity favourable to every thing great and noble.
Strana 190 - Go fetch to me a pint o' wine, And fill it in a silver tassie, That I may drink, before I go, A service to my bonnie lassie. The boat rocks at the pier o...
Strana 319 - As cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country.
Strana 329 - Coffins stood round, like open presses, That shaw'd the dead in their last dresses; And, by some devilish...
Strana 448 - THESE, as they change, ALMIGHTY FATHER, these Are but the varied God. The rolling year Is full of THEE. Forth in the pleasing Spring THY beauty walks, THY tenderness and love. Wide flush the fields ; the softening air is balm ; Echo the mountains round ; the forest smiles ; And every sense, and every heart is joy. Then comes THY glory in the Summer months, With light and heat refulgent. Then THY sun...