The Works of Robert Burns: General correspondence, including pieces of miscellaneous poetryT. Cadell and W. Davies, 1806 |
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Strana 22
... particular being struck with that part of Wallace's story where these lines Occur- " Syne to the Leglen wood , when it was late , To make a silent and a safe retreat . " I chose a fine summer Sunday , the only day my line of life ...
... particular being struck with that part of Wallace's story where these lines Occur- " Syne to the Leglen wood , when it was late , To make a silent and a safe retreat . " I chose a fine summer Sunday , the only day my line of life ...
Strana 41
... particular , I stand for my own opi- nion , in silent resolve , with all the tenaciousness of property . I mention this to you , once for all , to disburthen my mind , and I do not wish to hear or say more about it . - But " when proud ...
... particular , I stand for my own opi- nion , in silent resolve , with all the tenaciousness of property . I mention this to you , once for all , to disburthen my mind , and I do not wish to hear or say more about it . - But " when proud ...
Strana 98
... particular , I wish you to keep clear of the thorny walks of satire , which makes a man an hundred enemies for one friend , and is doubly dangerous when one is supposed to extend the slips and weaknesses of individuals to their sect or ...
... particular , I wish you to keep clear of the thorny walks of satire , which makes a man an hundred enemies for one friend , and is doubly dangerous when one is supposed to extend the slips and weaknesses of individuals to their sect or ...
Strana 161
... particular sacred times , who dares enter into them . " Heaven oft tears the bosom - chords That nature finest strung . " You will excuse this quotation for the sake of the author . Instead of entering on this sub- ject farther , I ...
... particular sacred times , who dares enter into them . " Heaven oft tears the bosom - chords That nature finest strung . " You will excuse this quotation for the sake of the author . Instead of entering on this sub- ject farther , I ...
Strana 177
... particular criti- cism I made at first reading ; in no stance has he said too much . He never flags in his progress , but , like a true poet of Nature's His beginning making , kindles in his course . is simple and modest , as if ...
... particular criti- cism I made at first reading ; in no stance has he said too much . He never flags in his progress , but , like a true poet of Nature's His beginning making , kindles in his course . is simple and modest , as if ...
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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...