Burns Nights at the Burns Club of St. Louis: Two Artists of the People, Albert Douglas; The Birth O' Tam O' Shanter, Thomas Agustine Daly; Genius and Geography, Rev. Dr. James W. Lee; The Scotch According to Johnson, Frederick W. Lehmann; Robert Burns, an Immortal Memory, Henry King; The Muse of Robert Burns, Irvin Mattick; Lines to St. Louis Burnsians, M. HunterFrom the pressof Kutterer-Jansen, 1918 - 83 strán (strany) |
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... Doctor Samuel Johnson at a banquet of the Caledonian Society , is very much like bringing a death's head to a feast , for if heed is taken of his opinions , the guests will have small occasion to congratulate themselves upon their ...
... Doctor Samuel Johnson at a banquet of the Caledonian Society , is very much like bringing a death's head to a feast , for if heed is taken of his opinions , the guests will have small occasion to congratulate themselves upon their ...
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... Doctor Johnson was born , is grimly indicated by old Fletcher of Saltoun , the man who said that if he could write the songs of a nation , he would not care who wrote its laws . He published a plan for the restoration of peace and order ...
... Doctor Johnson was born , is grimly indicated by old Fletcher of Saltoun , the man who said that if he could write the songs of a nation , he would not care who wrote its laws . He published a plan for the restoration of peace and order ...
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... Doctor Joseph Black , whose ex- periments and discoveries in chemistry made him in the judg- ment of Lavoisier " the Nestor of the Chemical Revolution , " and Dr. John Hunter , first among the surgeons of the day . In literature there ...
... Doctor Joseph Black , whose ex- periments and discoveries in chemistry made him in the judg- ment of Lavoisier " the Nestor of the Chemical Revolution , " and Dr. John Hunter , first among the surgeons of the day . In literature there ...
Strana 57
... Doctor would accept as a great man and also explain as having been caught young . There was a third however , caught young , but caught in America , of whom we may be sure the Doctor did not approve , and we need not wonder at this ...
... Doctor would accept as a great man and also explain as having been caught young . There was a third however , caught young , but caught in America , of whom we may be sure the Doctor did not approve , and we need not wonder at this ...
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... Doctor Johnson died . Would the Doctor have found his verse crude , because it was in a dialect the Doctor may have thought barbarous , could he have resisted the wonderful appeal of the Scottish songster ? I do not believe it . And ...
... Doctor Johnson died . Would the Doctor have found his verse crude , because it was in a dialect the Doctor may have thought barbarous , could he have resisted the wonderful appeal of the Scottish songster ? I do not believe it . And ...
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Albert Douglas artistic Auld Lang Syne Barbizon Bard beauty birth Blewett bonnie Boswell Burns Club Burns Night Burnsiana career Cherbourg Church Club of St commonplace copies cottage Doctor Johnson Doon Dumfries Edinburgh edition of Burns England fame feel field Frederick Frederick W Geddes Genius and Geography give Glenriddell Manuscripts Gribbell guests heart Heaven Henry King human hundred francs immortal Irvin Mattick James January 25 Jean John Juist for Burns Kirk Lehmann literary lived Lord Louis man's Millet muse nature Nights book Nith o'er O'SHANTER Orrick Johns peasant poems poet poet's President Bixby river Robert Burns Robin sake Scot SCOTCH ACCORDING Scotchman Scotia's Scotland Scott Scottish Sensier Shakespeare Shanter sing song soul spirit TAM O'SHANTER Theology things thou tion truth verse William William Marion Reedy wrote
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Strana 20 - Then let us pray that come it may, As come it will for a' that; That sense and worth, o'er a' the earth, May bear the gree, and a' that. For a
Strana 77 - Tho' they may gang a kennin wrang, To step aside is human : One point must still be greatly dark, The moving Why they do it ; And just as lamely can ye mark, How far perhaps they rue it. Who made the heart, 'tis He alone Decidedly can try us, He knows each chord its various tone, Each spring its various bias : Then at the balance let's be mute, We never can adjust it ; What's done we partly may compute, But know not what's resisted.
Strana 43 - Of a' the airts the wind can blaw I dearly like the west, For there the bonnie lassie lives The lassie I lo'e best: There wild woods grow, and rivers row, And mony a hill between; But day and night my fancy's flight Is ever wi
Strana 76 - For a' that, and a' that, Our toils obscure, and a' that, The rank is but the guinea's stamp — The man's the gowd for a
Strana 13 - O wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us ! It wad frae monie a blunder free us And foolish notion : What airs in dress an' gait wad lea'e us, And e'en devotion ! 1 Trimmings.
Strana 77 - 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 42 - To make a happy fire-side clime To weans and wife, That's the true pathos and sublime Of human life.
Strana 56 - It was by his inventions that its action was so regulated as to make it capable of being applied to the finest and most delicate manufactures, and its power so increased as to set weight and solidity at defiance. By his admirable contrivance, it has become a thing stupendous alike for its force...
Strana 46 - Edina ! Scotia's darling seat ! All hail thy palaces and towers, Where once beneath a monarch's feet Sat Legislation's sovereign powers ! From marking wildly-scatter'd flowers, As on the banks of Ayr I stray'd, And singing, lone, the lingering hours, I shelter in thy honour'd shade.
Strana 43 - THOU lingering star, with lessening ray, That lov'st to greet the early morn, Again thou usher'st in the day My Mary from my soul was torn. O Mary! dear departed shade! Where is thy place of blissful rest? See'st thou thy lover lowly laid? Hear'st thou the groans that rend his breast?