The works of Robert Burns; with an account of his life, and a criticism on his writings, Zväzok 21800 |
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Strana 32
... MADAM , I AM truly sorry I was not at home yesterday , when I was so much honor'd with your order for my copies , and incomparably more by the handsome compliments you are pleased to pay my poetic abilities . I am fully persuaded that ...
... MADAM , I AM truly sorry I was not at home yesterday , when I was so much honor'd with your order for my copies , and incomparably more by the handsome compliments you are pleased to pay my poetic abilities . I am fully persuaded that ...
Strana 33
Robert Burns. bation . Had you been thoroughly acquainted with me , Madam , you could not have touched darling heart - chord more sweetly than by noticing my attempts to celebrate your illustrious ancestor , the Saviour of his Country ...
Robert Burns. bation . Had you been thoroughly acquainted with me , Madam , you could not have touched darling heart - chord more sweetly than by noticing my attempts to celebrate your illustrious ancestor , the Saviour of his Country ...
Strana 34
... MADAM , THE hurry of my preparations for going abroad has hindered me from performing my pro- mise so soon as I intended . I have here sent you a parcel of songs , & c . which never made their ap- pearance , except to a friend or two at ...
... MADAM , THE hurry of my preparations for going abroad has hindered me from performing my pro- mise so soon as I intended . I have here sent you a parcel of songs , & c . which never made their ap- pearance , except to a friend or two at ...
Strana 35
... Madam , what task the world would assign me in this letter . The obscure bard , when any of the great condescend to take notice of him , should heap the altar with the incense of flattery . Their high ancestry , their own great and ...
... Madam , what task the world would assign me in this letter . The obscure bard , when any of the great condescend to take notice of him , should heap the altar with the incense of flattery . Their high ancestry , their own great and ...
Strana 48
... MADAM , YOURS of the 9th current , which I am this moment honor'd with , is a deep reproach to me for ungrateful neglect . I will tell you the real truth , for I am miserably aukward at a fib— I wished to have written to Dr. Moore ...
... MADAM , YOURS of the 9th current , which I am this moment honor'd with , is a deep reproach to me for ungrateful neglect . I will tell you the real truth , for I am miserably aukward at a fib— I wished to have written to Dr. Moore ...
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The Works of Robert Burns: With an Account of His Life, Criticism ..., Zväzok 2 Robert Burns Úplné zobrazenie - 1819 |
The Works of Robert Burns: With an Account of His Life, Criticism ..., Zväzok 2 Robert Burns Úplné zobrazenie - 1819 |
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Strana 22 - There is scarcely any earthly object gives me more — I do not know if I should call it pleasure — but something which exalts me, something which enraptures me — than to walk in the sheltered side of a wood, or high plantation, in a cloudy winter day, and hear the stormy wind howling among the trees, and raving over the plain. It is my best season for devotion: my mind is wrapt up in a kind of enthusiasm to Him, who, in the pompous language of the Hebrew bard, ' walks on the wings of the wind.
Strana 293 - Still o'er these scenes my memory wakes, And fondly broods with miser care ; Time but the impression stronger makes, As streams their channels deeper wear.
Strana 200 - 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...
Strana 316 - Thy spirit, Independence, let me share ; ' " Lord of the Lion-heart and eagle eye ! " Thy steps I follow with my bosom bare, " Nor heed the storm that howls along the sky...
Strana 6 - Oh! happy state! when souls each other draw, When love is liberty, and nature law...
Strana 136 - The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and Nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the war of elements, The wreck of matter, and the crush of worlds.
Strana 209 - 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 209 - 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...
Strana 210 - I never hear the loud solitary whistle of the curlew in a summer noon, or the wild mixing cadence of a troop of gray plover in an autumnal morning, without feeling an elevation of soul like the enthusiasm of devotion or poetry.
Strana 278 - Mary! dear departed shade! Where is thy place of blissful rest? Seest thou thy lover lowly laid? Hear'st thou the groans that rend his breast?