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
... spirits a little in this miserable fog of ennui , have taken a whim to give you a history of ayself . My name has made some little noise in his country ; you have done me the honour to nterest yourself very warmly in my behalf ; and ...
... spirits a little in this miserable fog of ennui , have taken a whim to give you a history of ayself . My name has made some little noise in his country ; you have done me the honour to nterest yourself very warmly in my behalf ; and ...
Strana 15
Robert Burns. out by early hardships , was unfit for labour . My father's spirit was soon irritated , but not easily broken . There was a freedom in his lease in two years more ; and , to weather these two years , wé retrenched our ...
Robert Burns. out by early hardships , was unfit for labour . My father's spirit was soon irritated , but not easily broken . There was a freedom in his lease in two years more ; and , to weather these two years , wé retrenched our ...
Strana 30
... spirit , gives a poor poet liberty to raise a tomb to a poor poet's memory ! Most generous ! ****** once upon a time gave that same poet the mighty sum of eighteen pence for a copy of his works . But then it must be considered HERE LIES ...
... spirit , gives a poor poet liberty to raise a tomb to a poor poet's memory ! Most generous ! ****** once upon a time gave that same poet the mighty sum of eighteen pence for a copy of his works . But then it must be considered HERE LIES ...
Strana 39
... SPIRIT , OPPRESSION MIGHT BEND , BUT COULD NOT SUB- DUE , " It was one of the last acts of his life to copy this heart - rending letter into a book which he kept for the purpose of recording such circumstances as he thought worthy of ...
... SPIRIT , OPPRESSION MIGHT BEND , BUT COULD NOT SUB- DUE , " It was one of the last acts of his life to copy this heart - rending letter into a book which he kept for the purpose of recording such circumstances as he thought worthy of ...
Strana 45
... spirits , hobgoblins . Bonie , or bony , handsome , beautiful . Bannock , a kind of thick cake of bread , a small jannack , or loaf made of out - meal . Boord , a board . Boortree , the shrub elder ; planted much of old in hedges of ...
... spirits , hobgoblins . Bonie , or bony , handsome , beautiful . Bannock , a kind of thick cake of bread , a small jannack , or loaf made of out - meal . Boord , a board . Boortree , the shrub elder ; planted much of old in hedges of ...
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.