Advertisement ; Life of Burns ; Glossary ; Preface to the first edition ; Dedication to the second edition ; Book I. Moral, religious and preceptive ; Book II. Pathetic, elegiac, and descriptive ; Book III. Familiar and epistolaryJames B. Dow, 1834 |
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Strana 10
... to behold madness and folly , and , ke him , too , frequently shaken hands with their toxicating friendship . *** After you have bed these pages , should you think them trifling and impertinent , I only beg leave to tell 10 LIFE OF BURNS .
... to behold madness and folly , and , ke him , too , frequently shaken hands with their toxicating friendship . *** After you have bed these pages , should you think them trifling and impertinent , I only beg leave to tell 10 LIFE OF BURNS .
Strana 11
... hands with infamy , for what they sincerely believe to be the cause of their God , or their king , are , as Mark Antony says in Shakspeare of Brutus and Cassius , honourable men . I mention this circum- stance , because it threw my ...
... hands with infamy , for what they sincerely believe to be the cause of their God , or their king , are , as Mark Antony says in Shakspeare of Brutus and Cassius , honourable men . I mention this circum- stance , because it threw my ...
Strana 14
... hands of a factor , who sat for the picture I have drawn of one in my tale of Twa Dogs . My father was advanced in life , when he married ; I was the eldest of seven children ; and he , worn out by early hardships , was unfit for labour ...
... hands of a factor , who sat for the picture I have drawn of one in my tale of Twa Dogs . My father was advanced in life , when he married ; I was the eldest of seven children ; and he , worn out by early hardships , was unfit for labour ...
Strana 16
... hand to pick out the cruel nettle - stings and thistles . Among her other love - inspiring qualities , she sung ... hands at the commencement of his lease ; otherwise the affair would have been impracti cable . For four years we lived ...
... hand to pick out the cruel nettle - stings and thistles . Among her other love - inspiring qualities , she sung ... hands at the commencement of his lease ; otherwise the affair would have been impracti cable . For four years we lived ...
Strana 19
... hand seems to know instinctively the well- worn path of my imagination , the favourite theme of my song ; and is with difficulty restrained from giving you a couple of paragraphs on the love adventures of my compeers , the humble in ...
... hand seems to know instinctively the well- worn path of my imagination , the favourite theme of my song ; and is with difficulty restrained from giving you a couple of paragraphs on the love adventures of my compeers , the humble in ...
Časté výrazy a frázy
aith amang auld banks Bard Beneath blast blate blaw blest blow bonie bosom breast Brig Burns charms Claut Coilus Crunt dear death dimin Dumfries e'en e'er Ellisland Ev'n ev'ry fair farewell fate father fear fellow flower frae gang grace groan hame heart heav'n honest honour hope Housie humble ither kind labour LAMENT life's Lord Mailie maun mind monie morn mourn muckle Muse Nae mair native Nature's ne'er never night o'er owre pleasure plough POEMS poet poor Poussie pow'r pride rhyme roar ROBERT BURNS round rustic scenes Scotia's Scotland Scottish sing skelpin Sliddery Snowkit song sorrow soul sugh sweet Tarbolton tear thee thegither thou thought thro tion tune Twas unco VERSES vex'd wander warl Wastrie weary weel whyles wild winds worth wretched ye'll ye're yokin young younkers
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Strana 89 - Perhaps the Christian volume is the theme: How guiltless blood for guilty man was shed; How He who bore in Heaven the second name Had not on earth whereon to lay His head...
Strana 128 - I'm truly sorry man's dominion. Has broken nature's social union, An' justifies that ill opinion, Which makes thee startle At me, thy poor earth-born companion, An...
Strana 90 - O Scotia, my dear, my native soil, For whom my warmest wish to Heaven is sent, Long may thy hardy sons of rustic toil Be blest with health, and peace, and sweet content...
Strana 113 - The bridegroom may forget the bride Was made his wedded wife yestreen ; The monarch may forget the crown ' That on his head an hour has been ; The mother may forget the child That smiles sae sweetly on her knee ; But I'll remember thee, Glencairn, And a' that thou hast done for me ! " LINES, SENT TO SIR JOHN WHITEFORD, OF WHITEFORD, BART.
Strana 148 - A set o' dull conceited hashes, Confuse their brains in college classes ! They gang in stirks, and come out asses, Plain truth to speak ; An' syne they think to climb Parnassus By dint o
Strana 93 - mid renewing storms? Is it departing pangs my soul alarms? Or death's unlovely, dreary, dark abode? For guilt, for guilt, my terrors are in arms: I tremble to approach an angry God, And justly smart beneath His sin-avenging rod. Fain would I say: " Forgive my foul offence, " Fain promise never more to disobey; But, should my Author health again dispense, Again I might desert fair virtue's way; Again in folly's path might go astray; Again exalt the brute and sink the man; Then how should I for heavenly...
Strana 118 - 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...
Strana 130 - Unskilful he to note the card Of prudent Lore, Till billows rage, and gales blow hard, And whelm him o'er ! Such fate to suffering worth is...
Strana 89 - Then kneeling down to Heaven's Eternal King The saint, the father, and the husband prays: Hope 'springs exulting on triumphant wing' That thus they all shall meet in future days: There ever bask in uncreated rays, No more to sigh, or shed the bitter tear, Together hymning their Creator's praise, In such society, yet still more dear; While circling Time moves round in an eternal sphere.
Strana 61 - Unacquainted with the necessary requisites for commencing poet by rule, he sings the sentiments and manners he felt and saw in himself and his rustic compeers around him, in his and their native language.