The Works of Robert Burns: General correspondence, including pieces of miscellaneous poetryT. Cadell and W. Davies, 1806 |
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Strana 15
... feel so strongly and describe so well ; the last , the meanest of the muses train - one who , though far inferior to your flights , yet eyes your path , and with trembling wing would sometimes soar after you - a poor rustic bard unknown ...
... feel so strongly and describe so well ; the last , the meanest of the muses train - one who , though far inferior to your flights , yet eyes your path , and with trembling wing would sometimes soar after you - a poor rustic bard unknown ...
Strana 47
... feel , and ever shall feel , for you , the mingled sentiments of esteem for a friend , and reverence for a father . I thank I thank you , Sir , with all my soul 47.
... feel , and ever shall feel , for you , the mingled sentiments of esteem for a friend , and reverence for a father . I thank I thank you , Sir , with all my soul 47.
Strana 59
... feel at the iron - gripe of ruthless oppression : you know how you bear the galling sneer of contumelious greatness . I hold you out the conveniences , the comforts of life , independence and character , on the one hand ; I tender you ...
... feel at the iron - gripe of ruthless oppression : you know how you bear the galling sneer of contumelious greatness . I hold you out the conveniences , the comforts of life , independence and character , on the one hand ; I tender you ...
Strana 109
... feel myself grown serious all at once , and affected in a manner I cannot describe . I shall only add , that it is one of the greatest pleasures I promise myself before I die , that of seeing the family of a man whose memory I re- vere ...
... feel myself grown serious all at once , and affected in a manner I cannot describe . I shall only add , that it is one of the greatest pleasures I promise myself before I die , that of seeing the family of a man whose memory I re- vere ...
Strana 163
... feel by reason , and who give by rule ; Instinct's a brute , and sentiment a fool ! Who make poor will do wait upon I should ; We own they're prudent , but who owns they're good . Ye wise ones , hence ! ye hurt the social God's image ...
... feel by reason , and who give by rule ; Instinct's a brute , and sentiment a fool ! Who make poor will do wait upon I should ; We own they're prudent , but who owns they're good . Ye wise ones , hence ! ye hurt the social God's image ...
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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...