 | Robert Burns - 1871 - Počet stránok 516
...pieces on hand ; taking up one or other as it suited the momentary tone of my mind, and dismissing the work as it bordered on fatigue. My passions, when...the eldest of my printed pieces ; The death of poor Mailie ; John Barleycorn, and Songs in and in." [in Edinburgh edition.] — Autobiography. The tleath... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1871 - Počet stránok 564
...to the fashion : 1 See a passage from Burns' commonplace-book in Chambers' Life of Burnt, i. 93. ' My passions, when once lighted up, raged like so many...over my verses, like a spell, soothed all into quiet. ' 1 He hummed them, as he drove his plough, to old Scotch airs, which he passionately loved, and which,... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1871 - Počet stránok 586
...pursues it to the end. AVhen he wrote verses, it was not on calculation or in obedience to the fashion: ' My passions, when once lighted up, raged like so many...conning over my verses, like a spell, soothed all into quiet.'1 He hummed them, as he drove his plough, to old Scotch airs, which he passionately loved, and... | |
 | Hippolyte Adolphe Taine - 1871 - Počet stránok 570
...to the fashion : 1 See a passage from Burns' commonplace-book in Chambers' Life of Burns, i. 93. ' My passions, when once lighted up, raged like so many...conning over my verses, like a spell, soothed all into quiet.'1 He hummed them, as he drove his plough, to old Scotch airs, which he passionately loved, and... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1872 - Počet stránok 740
...hour. I had usually half-a-dozen or more pieces on hand; I took up one or the other, as it suited the momentary tone of the mind, and dismissed the work...my verses, like a spell, soothed all into quiet." Meanwhile, in his twenty-third year, he attempted a diversion from the rugged home agricultural life,... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1874 - Počet stránok 568
...the fashion : 1 See a passage from Burns' commonplace-book in Chambers' L\fe of Burns, L93. • Ify passions, when once lighted up, raged like so many...conning over my verses, like a spell, soothed all into quiet.'1 He hummed them, as he drove his plough, to old Scotch airs, which he passionately loved, and... | |
 | James Cargill Guthrie - 1875 - Počet stránok 552
...hour. I had usually half-a-dozen or more pieces on hand ; I took up one or other, as it suited the momentary tone of the mind, and dismissed the work...over my verses, like a spell, soothed all into quiet ! " It was under a passionate spell of heroic inspiration, he also informs us, that while riding over... | |
 | James Cargill Guthrie - 1875 - Počet stránok 550
...hour. I had usually half-a-dozen or more pieces on hand ; I took up one or other, as it suited the momentary tone of the mind, and dismissed the work...over my verses, like a spell, soothed all into quiet ! " It was under a passionate spell of heroic inspiration, he also informs us, that while riding over... | |
 | Addison Peale Russell - 1875 - Počet stránok 416
...— brought me to my sixteenth year ; a little before which period I first committed the sin of rhyme My passions, when once lighted up, raged like so many...my verses, like a spell, soothed all into quiet." We are told that among the companions of Reynolds, when he was studying his art at Rome, was a fellow-pupil... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1876 - Počet stránok 540
...more pieces on hand; taking up one or other as it suited the momentary tone of my mind, and dismissing the work as it bordered on fatigue. My passions, when...the eldest of my printed pieces; The death of poor Mailie; John Barleycorn, and Songs I. n. and m." [in Edinburgh edition.]—Autobiography. The death... | |
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Shandy and the Man of Feeling were my bosom favourites. Poesy was still a darling walk for my mind, but it was only indulged in according to the humour of the hour. I had usually half a dozen or more pieces on hand; I took up one or other, as it suited... 
