The British Prose Writers...J. Sharpe, 1819 |
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Strana 6
... soon , I shall bid an eternal adieu to all the pains , and uneasinesses , and disquietudes of this weary life ; for I assure you I am heartily tired of it ; and , if I do not very much deceive myself , I could contentedly and gladly ...
... soon , I shall bid an eternal adieu to all the pains , and uneasinesses , and disquietudes of this weary life ; for I assure you I am heartily tired of it ; and , if I do not very much deceive myself , I could contentedly and gladly ...
Strana 18
... soon into business , the conse- quences of my follies , which may perhaps make it impracticable for me to stay at home ; and , besides , I have for some time been pining under secret wretchedness , from causes which you pretty well know ...
... soon into business , the conse- quences of my follies , which may perhaps make it impracticable for me to stay at home ; and , besides , I have for some time been pining under secret wretchedness , from causes which you pretty well know ...
Strana 22
... MADAM , 1786 . THE hurry of my preparations for going abroad has hindered me from performing my promise so soon as I intended . I have here sent you a parcel of 18 songs , & c . which never made their 22 BURNS'S LETTERS .
... MADAM , 1786 . THE hurry of my preparations for going abroad has hindered me from performing my promise so soon as I intended . I have here sent you a parcel of 18 songs , & c . which never made their 22 BURNS'S LETTERS .
Strana 37
... soon return to my shades , I wanted to have something like a material object for my grati- tude ; I wanted to have it in my power to say to a friend , There is my noble patron , my generous be- nefactor . Allow me , my lord , to publish ...
... soon return to my shades , I wanted to have something like a material object for my grati- tude ; I wanted to have it in my power to say to a friend , There is my noble patron , my generous be- nefactor . Allow me , my lord , to publish ...
Strana 53
... soon . I was going to say , a wife too ; but that must never be my blessed lot . I am but a younger son of the house of Parnassus , and like other younger sons of great families , I may intrigue , if I choose to run all risks , but must ...
... soon . I was going to say , a wife too ; but that must never be my blessed lot . I am but a younger son of the house of Parnassus , and like other younger sons of great families , I may intrigue , if I choose to run all risks , but must ...
Časté výrazy a frázy
acquaintance Allan Allan Ramsay Allan Water Ayrshire ballad bard beautiful bonnie called character charming Coila compliments composed copy CUNNINGHAM dare dear sir Dumfries DUNLOP earl of Glencairn Edinburgh Ellisland enclosed fancy father favour favourite feelings Fintry follies fortune friendship genius gentleman give glorious hand happy heart Heaven honest hope House of Stuart human humble idea Jenny Geddes justice kind lady late letter look lord Mauchline meet merit mind miserable Miss muse native never night noble o'er obliged opinion perhaps pleased pleasure poem poet poetic poetry poor present pretty pride reason rhyme Rob Morris ROBERT BURNS Robert Fergusson Scotland Scots Scottish sentiment soul spirit stanzas Tarbolton taste tell thee thing THOMSON thou thought tion tune verses wish worth wretch write young
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Strana 113 - Go fetch to me a pint o' wine, An' fill it in a silver tassie ; That I may drink before I go A service to my bonnie lassie : The boat rocks at the pier o...
Strana 116 - JEolian harp, passive, takes the impression of the passing accident; or do these workings argue something within us above the trodden clod? I own myself partial to such proofs of those awful and important realities: a God that made all things, man's immaterial and immortal nature, and a world of weal or woe beyond death and the grave.
Strana 68 - Come, go to, I will be wise!" I read farming books; I calculated crops; I attended markets; and, in short, in spite of the devil, and the world, and the flesh, I believe I should have been a wise man; but the first year, from unfortunately buying bad seed, the second from a late harvest, we lost half our crops. This overset all my wisdom, and I returned "like the dog to his vomit, and the sow that was washed, to her wallowing in the mire.
Strana 57 - In my infant and boyish days, too, I owed much to an old woman who resided in the family, remarkable for her ignorance, credulity, and superstition. She had, I suppose, the largest collection in the country of tales and songs concerning devils, ghosts, fairies, brownies, witches, warlocks, spunkies, kelpies, elf-candles, dead-lights, wraiths, apparitions, cantraips, giants, enchanted towers, dragons, and other trumpery.
Strana 65 - I staid, I did nothing but craze the faculties of my soul about her, or steal out to meet her; and the two last nights of my stay in the country, had sleep been a mortal sin, the image of this modest and innocent girl had kept me guiltless.
Strana 77 - 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 60 - In short, she, altogether unwittingly to herself, initiated me in that delicious passion, which, in spite of acid disappointment, gin-horse prudence, and book-worm philosophy, I hold to be the first of human joys, our dearest blessing here below...
Strana 57 - I was a good deal noted for a retentive memory, a stubborn sturdy something in my disposition, and an enthusiastic idiot piety. I say idiot piety, because I was then but a child. Though it cost the schoolmaster some thrashings, I made an excellent English scholar ; and by the time I was ten or eleven years of age, I was u critic in substantives, verbs, and particles.
Strana 57 - This cultivated the latent seeds of poetry, but had so strong an effect on my imagination, that to this hour, in my nocturnal rambles, I sometimes keep a sharp lookout in suspicious places; and though nobody can be more sceptical than I am in such matters, yet it often takes an effort of philosophy to shake off these idle terrors.
Strana 69 - I resolved to publish my poems. I weighed my productions as impartially as was in my power ; I thought they had merit; and it was a delicious idea that I should be called a clever fellow, even though it should never reach my ears...