 Here was a man, a son of toil, looking out on the world from his cottage, on society low and high, and on nature homely or beautiful, with the clearest eye, the most piercing insight, and the warmest heart; touching life at a hundred points, seeing to...  Principal Shairp & His Friends: With Portrait - Sida 360efter William Angus Knight - 1888 - 476 sidorObegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | Maude Gillette Phillips - 1885 - 648 sidor
...hailed when first it shone, And showed my youth How verse may build a princely throne On humble truth." Here was a man, a son of toil, looking out on the...the pretence and hollowness of the men he met, the humor, the drollery, the pathos, and the sorrow of human existence; and expressing what he saw, not... | |
 | Maude Gillette Phillips - 1885 - 612 sidor
...hailed when first it shone, And showed my youth How verse may build a princely throne On humble truth." Here was a man, a son of toil, looking out on the...the pretence and hollowness of the men he met, the humor, the drollery, the pathos, and the sorrow of human existence; and expressing what he saw, not... | |
 | 1886 - 860 sidor
...intense reality, truthfulness with the objects which he saw, truthfulness to himself as the seer of them. Here was a man, a son of toil, looking out on the...the most piercing insight, and the warmest heart, iouchini; life at a hundred points, seeing tu ihe core all the sterling worth, nor less the pretence... | |
 | Stafford Henry Northcote Earl of Iddesleigh - 1887 - 494 sidor
...reality, truthfulness to the objects which he saw, truthfulness to himself as the seer of them. . . . " Here was a man, a son of toil, looking out on the...points, seeing to the core all the sterling worth, not less the pretence and hollowness of the men he met, the humour, the drollery, the pathos, and the... | |
 | 1899 - 666 sidor
...first it shone, And showed my youth, How verse may build a princely throne Oil humble truth. Here waa a man, a son of toil, looking out on the world from...nor less the pretence and hollowness of the men he uiet, the humour, the drollery, the pathos, and the sorrow of human existence ; and expressing what... | |
 | University of Edinburgh - 1900 - 384 sidor
...reality, truthfulness to the objects which he saw, truthfulness to himself as the seer of them. . . . " Here was a man, a son of toil, looking out on the...points, seeing to the core all the sterling worth, not less the pretence and hollowness of the men he met, the humour, the drollery, the pathos, and the... | |
 | University of Edinburgh - 1900 - 382 sidor
...the objects which he saw, truthfulness to himself as the seer of them. . . . " Here was a man, a sou of toil, looking out on the world from his cottage,...points, seeing to the core all the sterling worth, not less the pretence and hollowness of the men he met, the humour, the drollery, the pathos, and the... | |
 | John Scott Clark - 1900 - 886 sidor
...forever classical. . . . Burns's keenness of insight keeps pace with his keenness of feeling. . . . Here was a man, a son of toil looking out on the world from his cottage, on society high and low, and on nature homely or beautiful, with the clearest eye, a most piercing insight, .... | |
 | Willingham Franklin Rawnsley - 1912 - 336 sidor
...to quote Shairp again, " Here was a man, a son of toil, looking out on the world from his cottage, with the clearest eye, the most piercing insight and...seeing to the core all the sterling worth, nor less all the pretence and hollowness of the men he met, the humour, the drollery, the pathos and the sorrow... | |
 | Willingham Franklin Rawnsley - 1912 - 336 sidor
...vernacular is to many a Southron a stumblingblock. But see what it meant ; to quote Shairp again, " Here was a man, a son of toil, looking out on the world from his cottage, with the clearest eye, the most piercing insight and the wannest heart ; touching life at a hundred... | |
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