Life of Robert BurnsConstable and Company, 1828 - 310 strán (strany) |
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... Poet's works , which it was expressly designed to accompany ; and the regretted projector of Constable's Miscellany sought in vain for any other narrative sufficiently detailed to meet the purposes of his publication . The last reprint ...
... Poet's works , which it was expressly designed to accompany ; and the regretted projector of Constable's Miscellany sought in vain for any other narrative sufficiently detailed to meet the purposes of his publication . The last reprint ...
Strana 24
... poet's productions is the little ballad , " O once I loved a bonnie lass , Ay , and I love her still , And whilst that honour warms my breast , I'll love my handsome Nell , " & c . Burns himself characterises it as " a very puerile and ...
... poet's productions is the little ballad , " O once I loved a bonnie lass , Ay , and I love her still , And whilst that honour warms my breast , I'll love my handsome Nell , " & c . Burns himself characterises it as " a very puerile and ...
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... Poet's life , was informed by an aged inhabitant of Irvine , that Burns's chief delight while there was in ... poet was first initiated in the mysteries of free masonry , " which was , says his brother , " his first introduction to the ...
... Poet's life , was informed by an aged inhabitant of Irvine , that Burns's chief delight while there was in ... poet was first initiated in the mysteries of free masonry , " which was , says his brother , " his first introduction to the ...
Strana 47
... poet's own vigour and resources , at these club - meetings , and ( more fre- quently than his brother approved ) at the Free Mason Lodges of Irvine and Tarbolton , extended his rural reputation ; and , by degress , prepared persons not ...
... poet's own vigour and resources , at these club - meetings , and ( more fre- quently than his brother approved ) at the Free Mason Lodges of Irvine and Tarbolton , extended his rural reputation ; and , by degress , prepared persons not ...
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... Poet's Welcome to an Illegitimate Child was composed on the same occasion — a piece in which some very manly ... poet as glorying , and only glorying in his shame . 3 When I consider his tender affection for the surviving members of his ...
... Poet's Welcome to an Illegitimate Child was composed on the same occasion — a piece in which some very manly ... poet as glorying , and only glorying in his shame . 3 When I consider his tender affection for the surviving members of his ...
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Strana 258 - He is a man speaking to men: a man, it is true, endowed with more lively sensibility, more enthusiasm and tenderness, who has a greater knowledge of human nature, and a more comprehensive soul, than are supposed to be common among mankind; a man pleased with his own passions, and volitions, and who rejoices more than other men in the spirit of life that is in him; delighting to contemplate similar volitions and passions as manifested in the goings-on of the Universe, and habitually impelled to create...
Strana 187 - 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 114 - There was a strong expression of sense and shrewdness in all his lineaments ; the eye alone, I think, indicated the poetical character and temperament. It was large, and of a dark cast, which glowed (I say literally glowed) when he spoke with feeling or interest. I never saw such another eye in a human head, though I have seen the most distinguished men of my time.
Strana 297 - O'er a' the ills o' life victorious! But pleasures are like poppies spread: You seize the...
Strana 264 - 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.
Strana 24 - I was not so presumptuous as to imagine that I could make verses like printed ones, composed by men who had Greek and Latin; but my girl sung a song, which was said to be composed by a small country laird's son, on one of his father's maids, with whom he was in love ! and I saw no reason why I might not rhyme as well as he...
Strana 81 - Again ye have heard that it hath been said by them of old time, Thou shalt not, forswear thyself, but shalt perform unto the Lord thine oaths...
Strana 187 - On the fifth day of the moon, which, according to the custom of my forefathers, I always keep holy, after having washed myself and offered up my morning devotions, I ascended the high hills of Bagdat in order to pass the rest of the day in meditation and prayer.
Strana 80 - Ye banks and braes and streams around The castle o' Montgomery, Green be your woods, and fair your flowers, Your waters never drumlie ! There simmer first unfauld her robes, And there the langest tarry ; For there I took the last fareweel O
Strana 188 - I have some favourite flowers in spring, among which are the mountain-daisy, the hare-bell, the fox-glove, the wild-brier rose, the budding birch, and the hoary hawthorn, that I view and hang over with particular delight.