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 15
... talk much of infection from breathing the same air , the touch , & c .; but I never expressly said I loved her . Indeed I did not know myself why I liked so much to loiter behind with her , when returning in the evening LIFE OF BURNS . 15.
... talk much of infection from breathing the same air , the touch , & c .; but I never expressly said I loved her . Indeed I did not know myself why I liked so much to loiter behind with her , when returning in the evening LIFE OF BURNS . 15.
Strana 16
Robert Burns. loiter behind with her , when returning in the evening from our labours ; why the tones of her voice made my heart - strings thrill like an Æolian harp ; and particularly why my pulse beat such a furious ratan when I looked ...
Robert Burns. loiter behind with her , when returning in the evening from our labours ; why the tones of her voice made my heart - strings thrill like an Æolian harp ; and particularly why my pulse beat such a furious ratan when I looked ...
Strana 20
... returned home very considerably improv- ed . My reading was enlarged with the very important addition of Thomson's and Shen- stone's works ; I had seen human nature in a new phasis ; and I engaged several of my school fellows to keep up ...
... returned home very considerably improv- ed . My reading was enlarged with the very important addition of Thomson's and Shen- stone's works ; I had seen human nature in a new phasis ; and I engaged several of my school fellows to keep up ...
Strana 24
... returned , like the dog to his vomit , and the sow that was washed , to her wallowing in the mire . ' " I now began to be known in the neighbour hood as a maker of rhymes . The first of my poetic offspring that saw the light was a ...
... returned , like the dog to his vomit , and the sow that was washed , to her wallowing in the mire . ' " I now began to be known in the neighbour hood as a maker of rhymes . The first of my poetic offspring that saw the light was a ...
Strana 31
... returned to them high in public estimation and easy in his circumstances . He returned to them , unchanged that the poet was at this time absolutely starving , and be- sought his aid with all the earnestness of hunger ; and over and ...
... returned to them high in public estimation and easy in his circumstances . He returned to them , unchanged that the poet was at this time absolutely starving , and be- sought his aid with all the earnestness of hunger ; and over and ...
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.