The British Prose Writers...J. Sharpe, 1819 |
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Strana 11
... young inexperienced mind into , still I think it in a great measure deserves the highest encomiums that have been passed on it . If any thing on earth de- serves the name of rapture or transport , it is the feelings of green eighteen ...
... young inexperienced mind into , still I think it in a great measure deserves the highest encomiums that have been passed on it . If any thing on earth de- serves the name of rapture or transport , it is the feelings of green eighteen ...
Strana 12
... young , the innocent , who fondly loved us →→→→ Nay , more , that very love their cause of ruin ! O burning hell ! in all thy store of torments , There's not a keener lash ! Lives there a man so firm , who , while his heart Feels ...
... young , the innocent , who fondly loved us →→→→ Nay , more , that very love their cause of ruin ! O burning hell ! in all thy store of torments , There's not a keener lash ! Lives there a man so firm , who , while his heart Feels ...
Strana 15
... young men may be naturally enough divided into two grand classes , which I shall call the grave and the merry ; though , by the bye , these terms do not with propriety enough express my ideas . The grave I shall cast into the usual ...
... young men may be naturally enough divided into two grand classes , which I shall call the grave and the merry ; though , by the bye , these terms do not with propriety enough express my ideas . The grave I shall cast into the usual ...
Strana 23
... young woman ; but I have no common friend to procure me that permission , without which I would not dare to spread the copy . I am quite aware , Madam , what task the world would assign me in this letter . The obscure bard , when any of ...
... young woman ; but I have no common friend to procure me that permission , without which I would not dare to spread the copy . I am quite aware , Madam , what task the world would assign me in this letter . The obscure bard , when any of ...
Strana 58
... young- ling actors , who were busy in the rehearsal of parts in which they were shortly to appear on the stage of life , where , alas ! I was destined to drúdge behind the scenes . It is not commonly at this green age that our young ...
... young- ling actors , who were busy in the rehearsal of parts in which they were shortly to appear on the stage of life , where , alas ! I was destined to drúdge behind the scenes . It is not commonly at this green age that our young ...
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...