The Works of Robert Burns: With an Account of His Life, and a Criticism on His Writings, to which are Prefixed Some Observations on the Character and Condition of the Scottish Peasantry, Zväzok 2T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1820 - 484 strán (strany) |
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... reason , I now hold the pen for him to thank you for your kind letter , and to assure you , Sir , that it shall not be my fault if my fa- ther's correspondence in the north die with him . My brother writes to John Caird , and to him I ...
... reason , I now hold the pen for him to thank you for your kind letter , and to assure you , Sir , that it shall not be my fault if my fa- ther's correspondence in the north die with him . My brother writes to John Caird , and to him I ...
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... reason down its agonizing throbs ; And after proper purpose of amendment , Can firmly force his jarring thoughts to peace ? O , happy ! happy ! enviable man ! O glorious magnanimity of soul ! March , 1784 . I have often observed in the ...
... reason down its agonizing throbs ; And after proper purpose of amendment , Can firmly force his jarring thoughts to peace ? O , happy ! happy ! enviable man ! O glorious magnanimity of soul ! March , 1784 . I have often observed in the ...
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... reason I put the more confidence in my critical skill , in distinguishing foppery and conceit , from real passion and nature . Whether the following song will stand the test , I will not pretend to say , because it is my own ; only I ...
... reason I put the more confidence in my critical skill , in distinguishing foppery and conceit , from real passion and nature . Whether the following song will stand the test , I will not pretend to say , because it is my own ; only I ...
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... fellow - creatures ; that so by forming piety and virtue into habit , we may be fit members for that society of the pious and the good , which reason and revelation teach us us to expect beyond the grave : I do not 15.
... fellow - creatures ; that so by forming piety and virtue into habit , we may be fit members for that society of the pious and the good , which reason and revelation teach us us to expect beyond the grave : I do not 15.
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... endearments and parental lessons of the best of friends and the ablest of instruc- tors without feeling , what perhaps the calmer dictates of reason would partly condemn . I hope my father's friends in your country will not I hope 18 .
... endearments and parental lessons of the best of friends and the ablest of instruc- tors without feeling , what perhaps the calmer dictates of reason would partly condemn . I hope my father's friends in your country will not I hope 18 .
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acquaintance Ayrshire ballad bard beautiful BLACKLOCK brother Burns character charming compliments composition copy creature criticism CUNNINGHAM dare dear Madam DEAR SIR debts of honor Dryburgh Abbey DUMBARTON'S DRUMS Dumfries DUNLOP Earl of Glencairn Edinburgh Ellisland esteem excise fame fancy fate favor favorite feel fellow Fintry flatter follies friendship genius gentleman give happy hear heart Heaven honest honor hope House of Stewart human idea inclosed kind lady late letter Lord Mauchline merit mind misery muse Mylne's native nature ness never Nithsdale obliging patron perhaps pity pleased pleasure poem poet poetic poetry poor present pride reason rhymes ROBERT BURNS Robert Fergusson Scotland Scottish sent sentiment Shanter shew sincerely song soul spirit stanzas Stewart sweet taste thee thing thou thought tion truly verses virtue wish wretch write
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Strana 197 - 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 301 - 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 68 - No sculptured marble here, nor pompous lay, 'No storied urn nor animated bust;' This simple stone directs pale Scotia's way To pour her sorrows o'er her poet's dust.
Strana 339 - Coffins stood round, like open presses; That shaw'd the dead in their last dresses; And by some devilish...
Strana 203 - 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, said I, man is but a shadow and life a dream.
Strana 13 - I believe, may be partly owing to my misfortunes giving my mind a melancholy cast : but there is something even in the ' Mighty tempest, and the hoary waste, Abrupt, and deep stretch'd o'er the buried earth," which raises the mind to a serious sublimity favourable to every thing great and noble.
Strana 329 - As cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country.
Strana 461 - THESE, as they change, ALMIGHTY FATHER, these Are but the varied God. The rolling year Is full of THEE. Forth in the pleasing Spring THY beauty walks, THY tenderness and love. Wide flush the fields ; the softening air is balm ; Echo the mountains round ; the forest smiles ; And every sense, and every heart is joy. Then comes THY glory in the Summer months, With light and heat refulgent. Then THY sun...
Strana 76 - I have no dearer aim than to have it in my power, unplagued with the routine of business, for which, heaven knows ! I am unfit enough, to make leisurely pilgrimages through Caledonia ; to sit on the fields of her battles ; to wander on the romantic banks of her rivers ; and to muse by the stately towers or venerable ruins, once the honoured abodes of her heroes.
Strana 76 - I follow implicitly. You kindly interest yourself in my future views and prospects; there I can give you no light. It is all Dark as was Chaos ere the infant sun Was roll'd together, or had tried his beams Athwart the gloom profound.