The Genius and Character of BurnsWiley and Putnam, 1845 - 222 sidor |
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... heard of the name of Robert Burns . It is , indeed , a household word . His poems are found lying in almost every cottage in the country , on the " window sole " of the kitchen , spence , or parlor ; and in the town - dwellings of the ...
... heard of the name of Robert Burns . It is , indeed , a household word . His poems are found lying in almost every cottage in the country , on the " window sole " of the kitchen , spence , or parlor ; and in the town - dwellings of the ...
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... heard of her death - that to him was the day on which she died . He did not keep it as a day of mourning - for he was happy in as good a wife as ever man had , and cheerfully went about the work of his farm . But towards the darkening ...
... heard of her death - that to him was the day on which she died . He did not keep it as a day of mourning - for he was happy in as good a wife as ever man had , and cheerfully went about the work of his farm . But towards the darkening ...
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... " Vision " of Burns , our Scottish Theo- critus , as we have heard him classically called , and judge of Dr. Currie's sense in telling us to see the cup of Thyrsis . " Down flow'd her robe , a tartan sheen ; 20 THE GENIUS AND.
... " Vision " of Burns , our Scottish Theo- critus , as we have heard him classically called , and judge of Dr. Currie's sense in telling us to see the cup of Thyrsis . " Down flow'd her robe , a tartan sheen ; 20 THE GENIUS AND.
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... heard anything by which I was more highly electrified . " No wonder Gilbert was highly electrified ; for though he had read or heard many things of his brother Robert's of equal poetical power , not one among them all was so charged ...
... heard anything by which I was more highly electrified . " No wonder Gilbert was highly electrified ; for though he had read or heard many things of his brother Robert's of equal poetical power , not one among them all was so charged ...
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... heard by his son Robert duly every night saying , " Let us worship God . " " There was something peculiarly venerable in the phrase " every time he heard it ; but on " Saturday night " family worship was sur- rounded , in its solemnity ...
... heard by his son Robert duly every night saying , " Let us worship God . " " There was something peculiarly venerable in the phrase " every time he heard it ; but on " Saturday night " family worship was sur- rounded , in its solemnity ...
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Sida 16 - THOU lingering star, with lessening ray, That lov'st to greet the early morn, Again thou usher'st in the day My Mary from my soul was torn. O Mary! dear departed shade! Where is thy place of blissful rest? See'st thou thy lover lowly laid? Hear'st thou the groans that rend his breast?
Sida 124 - Then let us pray that come it may — As come it will for a...
Sida 53 - I hear her in the tunefu' birds, I hear her charm the air : There's not a bonnie flower that springs By fountain, shaw, or green, There's not a bonnie bird that sings But minds me o
Sida 31 - November chill blaws loud wi' angry sugh; The short'ning winter-day is near a close; The miry beasts retreating frae the pleugh; The black'ning trains o' craws to their repose: The toil-worn Cotter frae his labour goes, This night his weekly moil is at an end, Collects his spades, his mattocks, and his hoes, Hoping the morn in ease and rest to spend, And weary, o'er the moor, his course does hameward bend. At length his lonely cot appears in view, Beneath the shelter of an aged tree; Th' expectant...
Sida 131 - Return Alpheus, the dread voice is past, That shrunk thy streams; return Sicilian Muse, And call the Vales, and bid them hither cast Their Bells, and Flowerets of a thousand hues. Ye valleys low, where the mild whispers use, Of shades and wanton winds, and gushing brooks, On whose fresh lap the swart Star sparely looks, Throw hither all your quaint enamelled eyes, That on the green turf suck the honied showers, And purple all the ground with vernal flowers.
Sida 172 - Fare thee well! and if for ever, Still for ever, fare thee well: Even though unforgiving, never 'Gainst thee shall my heart rebel. Would that breast were bared before thee Where thy head so oft hath lain, While that placid sleep came o'er thee Which thou ne'er canst know again: Would that breast, by thee glanced over, Every inmost thought could show!
Sida 189 - That hangs his head, and a' that ? The coward-slave, we pass him by, We dare be poor for a' that ! For a' that, and a' that, Our toils obscure, and a' that ; The rank is but the guinea stamp ; The man's the gowd for a
Sida 35 - Compared with this, how poor Religion's pride, In all the pomp of method and of art, When men display to congregations wide, Devotion's...
Sida 34 - They chant their artless notes in simple guise; They tune their hearts, by far the noblest aim : Perhaps ' Dundee's ' wild warbling measures rise, Or plaintive *• Martyrs...
Sida 144 - Wha will be a traitor knave? Wha can fill a coward's grave? Wha sae base as be a slave? Let him turn and flee! Wha for Scotland's King and law Freedom's sword will strongly draw, Freeman stand, or freeman fa'?