| Robert Burns - 1896 - Počet stránok 520
...momentary tone of the mind, and dismissed it as it lwrdered on fatigue. My passions, when once they were lighted up, raged like so many devils till they got vent in rhyme ; and then conning over my verses, like n spell, soothed all into quiet ! None of the rhymes of those days are... | |
| Robert Burns - 1898 - Počet stránok 394
...Nature: see Ep. WS, 73, p. 34, and Gen. Introd., p. liii ff. 90 234. soothe thy flame: ' My passions raged like so many devils till they got vent in rhyme; and then conning over my verses, like a spell, soothed all into quiet' (Letter to Dr. Moore). Cf. Ep. WS, 30,... | |
| Robert Burns - 1898 - Počet stránok 394
...Nature: see Ep. WS, 73, p. 34, and Gen. Introd., p. liii ff. 90 234. soothe thy flame : ' My passions raged like so many devils till they got vent in rhyme; and then conning over my verses, like a spell, soothed all into quiet ' (Letter to Dr. Moore). Cf. Ep. WS, 30,... | |
| William Harvey - 1899 - Počet stránok 180
...momentary tone of the mind, and dismissed it as it bordered on fatigue. My passions, when once they were lighted up, raged like so many devils till they got vent in rhyme ; and then conning over my verses, like a spell, soothed all into quiet I None of the rhymes of those days are... | |
| John Dawson Ross - 1899 - Počet stránok 222
...life. He says, " My passions, once lighted, raged up like so many devils until they got vent in rhyme. Then the conning over my verses, like a spell, soothed all into quiet." With all that flow of soul in him ; with his rebounding from the highest conviviality to the lowest... | |
| Thomas Carlyle - 1900 - Počet stránok 250
...Life of Burns. Page 63, line 11. passions raging like demons, etc. "My passions, when once they were lighted up, raged like so many devils till they got vent in rhyme ; and then conning over my verses, like a spell, soothed all into quiet!" Written with reference to about the... | |
| Thomas Carlyle - 1900 - Počet stránok 248
...Life of Burns. Page 63, line 11. passions raging like demons, etc. "My passions, when once they were lighted up, raged like so many devils till they got vent in rhyme ; and then conning over my verses, like a spell, soothed all into quiet!" Written with reference to about the... | |
| 1902 - Počet stránok 970
...poems, must make his whole life r heroic poem." Burns once wrote: "My passions, when once lightec' up, raged like so many devils, till they got vent in rhyme; and then coming over my verses, like a spell soothed all into quiet.'' We certainly need not be surprised at... | |
| George Iles - 1908 - Počet stránok 202
...the 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...the eldest of my printed pieces; "The Death of Poor Maillie," "John Barleycorn," and Songs First, Second and Third. Song Second was the ebullition of that... | |
| Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1908 - Počet stránok 562
...the 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...my verses, like a spell, soothed all into quiet." — letter to Dr. Moore, August 2, 1 787. " For my own part, I never had the least thought or inclination... | |
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