 | James Ballantine - 1859 - Počet stránok 634
...bard, while assisting his father at the plough, that there the poetic genius of his country found him as the prophetic bard Elijah did Elisha — at the plough, and threw her inspiring mantle over him. She bade him sing the loves, the joys, the rural scenes, and rural pleasures of his natal soil,... | |
 | James Ballantine - 1859 - Počet stránok 630
...— he was a peasant's son, and himself a ploughman. "The poetic genius of my country," he says, " found me as the prophetic bard Elijah did Elisha — at the plough, and threw hur inspiring mantle over me." His genius received no aid from a refined or liberal education ; it... | |
 | Peter Livingston - 1862 - Počet stránok 150
...of the same dimensions from which so many beauties could be culled as from the letters of Burns. " The poetic genius of my country found me as the prophetic...the plough, and threw her inspiring mantle over me." Such is the language of the poet. We do not wonder at the fact, we only name it- Heaven and earth are... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1863 - Počet stránok 358
...names of his native land, those who bear the honours, and inherit the virtues, of their ancestors ? The poetic genius of my country found me, as the prophetic...pleasures of my native soil, in my native tongue. I tuned my wild, artless notes, as she inspired. She whispered me to come to this ancient metropolis... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1863 - Počet stránok 368
...names of his native land, those who bear the honours, and inherit the virtues, of their ancestors? The poetic genius of my country found me, as the prophetic...pleasures of my native soil, in my native tongue. I tuned my wild, artless notes, as she inspired. She whispered me to come to this ancient metropolis... | |
 | William Howitt - 1863 - Počet stránok 726
...of throwing her mantle, embroidered with Scotch thistles, over him, according to his own words — "The poetic genius of my country found me, as the prophetic bard Elijan did Elisha, at the plough, and threw her inspiring mantle over me." Burns stands with his left... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1864 - Počet stránok 380
...names of his native land, those who bear the honours, and inherit the virtues, of their ancestors ? The poetic genius of my country found me, as the prophetic...pleasures of my native soil, in my native tongue. I tuned my wild, artless notes, as she inspired. She whispered me to come to this ancient metropolis... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1866 - Počet stránok 356
...illustrious names of his native land ; those who bear the honours and inherit the virtues of their ancestors? The Poetic Genius of my Country found me, as the prophetic...rural pleasures of my native soil, in my native tongue ; I tuned my wild, artless notes as she inspired. — She whispered me to come to this ancient Metropolis... | |
 | Eneas Sweetland Dallas - 1866 - Počet stránok 762
...wind and sluet to the shelter of a securer hovcL" — ALLAN 1 ClJNMINOHAM. t Th« river Ayr. • " The poetic genius of my country found me as the prophetic bard Elijah did Elisha, at the plough, and threw bar inspiring mantle around me." — Burn/ Dedication. t The Sicilian and the Doric measures were the... | |
 | Eneas Sweetland Dallas - 1866 - Počet stránok 758
...The torch he lit will ever burn. SYDNBT WHTTIKO. • " The poetic genius of my country found me at the prophetic bard Elijah did Elisha, at the plough, and threw her inspiring mantle around me." — Burnt' Dedication. t The Sicilian and the Doric meamiree were the extreme of the tender... | |
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The poetic genius of my country found me, as the prophetic bard Elijah did Elisha, at the plough, and threw her inspiring mantle over me. She bade me sing the loves, the joys, the rural scenes and rural pleasures of my native soil, in my native tongue.... 
