The Works of Robert Burns: With an Account of His Life, and a Criticism on His Writings; to which are Prefixed, Some Observations on the Character and Condition of the Scottish Peasantry, Volym 2F. Lucas, jun. and J. Cushing, 1815 |
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... shews me human nature in a different light from any thing I have seen before . In short , the joy of my heart is to " study men , their manners , and their ways ; " and for this darling subject , I cheerfully sacrifice eve . ry other ...
... shews me human nature in a different light from any thing I have seen before . In short , the joy of my heart is to " study men , their manners , and their ways ; " and for this darling subject , I cheerfully sacrifice eve . ry other ...
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... shew them to be the work of a masterly hand ; and it has often given me many a heart - ach to reflect that such glorious old bards - bards who very probably owed all their talents to native genius ; yet have described the exploits of ...
... shew them to be the work of a masterly hand ; and it has often given me many a heart - ach to reflect that such glorious old bards - bards who very probably owed all their talents to native genius ; yet have described the exploits of ...
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... shew my gratitude to Mr. Ballantine , by publishing my poem of The Brigs of Ayr . I would detest myself as a wretch , if I thought I were capable , in a very long life , of for- getting the honest , warm , and tender delicacy , with ...
... shew my gratitude to Mr. Ballantine , by publishing my poem of The Brigs of Ayr . I would detest myself as a wretch , if I thought I were capable , in a very long life , of for- getting the honest , warm , and tender delicacy , with ...
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... shew that you take the effusions of an obscure man like me in good part . I beg my best respects to Dr. and Mrs. Blacklockt , And am , sir , Your most obedient humble servant , J. RAMSAY . * Mrs. Bruce of Clackmannan . + TALE OF OMERON ...
... shew that you take the effusions of an obscure man like me in good part . I beg my best respects to Dr. and Mrs. Blacklockt , And am , sir , Your most obedient humble servant , J. RAMSAY . * Mrs. Bruce of Clackmannan . + TALE OF OMERON ...
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... shew Mr. Burns the manner of singing these same luenigs , and if he can humour it in words , I do not des pair of seeing one of them sung upon the stage , in the original style , round a napkin . I am very sorry we are likely to meet so ...
... shew Mr. Burns the manner of singing these same luenigs , and if he can humour it in words , I do not des pair of seeing one of them sung upon the stage , in the original style , round a napkin . I am very sorry we are likely to meet so ...
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The Works of Robert Burns: With an Account of His Life, and a ..., Volym 2 Robert Burns Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1815 |
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Sida 141 - Man, this is one of the most extraordinary, that he shall go on from day to day, from week to week, from month to month.
Sida 212 - Farewell thou fair day, thou green earth, and ye skies, Now gay with the broad setting sun ! Farewell loves and friendships, ye dear, tender ties, Our race of existence is run ! Thou grim king of terrors, thou life's gloomy foe, Go, frighten the coward and slave ; Go, teach them to tremble, fell tyrant ! but know, No terrors hast thou to the brave! Thou strik'st the poor...
Sida 234 - The fates and characters of the rhyming tribe often employ my thoughts when I am disposed to be melancholy. There is not, among all the martyrologies that ever were penned, so rueful a narrative as the lives of the poets. In the comparative view of wretches, the criterion is not what they are doomed to suffer, but how they are formed to bear. Take a being of our kind, give him a stronger imagination and a more delicate sensibility, which between them will ever engender a more ungovernable...
Sida 106 - Leith, Fu' loud the wind blaws frae the Ferry, The ship rides by the Berwick-law, And I maun leave my bonnie Mary. The trumpets sound, the banners fly, The glittering spears are ranked ready; The shouts o' war are heard afar, The battle closes thick and bloody; But it's not the roar o...
Sida 9 - ... and hear the stormy wind howling among the trees, and raving over the plain. It is my best season for devotion : my mind is wrapt up in a kind of enthusiasm to Him, who, in the pompous language of the Hebrew bard, ' walks on the wings of the wind.
Sida 110 - I never hear the loud, solitary whistle of the curlew in a summer noon, or the wild mixing cadence of a troop of grey plovers in an autumnal morning, without feeling an elevation of soul like the enthusiasm of devotion or poetry.
Sida 109 - 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,
Sida 110 - Are we a piece of machinery, which, like the jEolian harp, passive, takes the impression of the passing accident; or do these workings argue something within us above the trodden clod ? I own myself partial to such proofs of those awful and important realities : a God that made all things, man's immaterial and immortal nature, and a world of weal or woe beyond death and the grave.
Sida 109 - ... routine of life and thought, which is so apt to reduce our existence to a kind of instinct, or even sometimes, and with some minds, to a state very little superior to mere machinery. This day...
Sida 152 - Mary! dear departed shade! Where is thy place of blissful rest? Seest thou thy lover lowly laid? Hear'st thou the groans that rend his breast?