 I recollect once he told me, when I was admiring a distant prospect in one of our morning walks, that the sight of so many smoking cottages gave a pleasure to his mind, which none could understand who had not witnessed, like himself, the happiness and...  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Sida 5531827Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | Robert Burns - 1852 - 336 sidor
...and I recollect once he told me, when I was admiring a distant prospect in one of our morning walks, that the sight of so many smoking cottages gave a...the happiness and the worth which they contained. ' In his political principles he was then a Jacobite; which was perhaps owing partly to this, that... | |
 | 1852 - 572 sidor
...Braid Hills, near Edinburgh, where they commanded a prospect of the adjacent country, the poet remarked that the sight of so many smoking cottages gave a pleasure to his mind which he did not believe any one could understand that did not know, as he did, how much of real worth and... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1858 - 548 sidor
...and I recollect once he told me, when I was admiring a distant prospect in one of our morning walks, that the sight of so many smoking cottages gave a...the happiness and the worth which they contained. In his political principles he was then a Jacobite, which was, perhaps, owing partly to this, that... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1854 - 342 sidor
...and I recollect once he told me, when I was admiring a distant prospect in one of our morning walks, that the sight of so many smoking cottages gave a...the happiness and the worth which they contained. ' In his political principles he was then a Jacobite ; which was perhaps owing partly to this, that... | |
 | Robert Burns, Allan Cunningham - 1855 - 616 sidor
...and I recollect once he told me, when I was admiring a distant prospect in one of our morning walks, that the sight of so many smoking cottages gave a...the happiness and the worth which they contained. " In his political principles he was then a Jacobite ; which was perhaps owing partly to this, that... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1855 - 562 sidor
...and I recollect he once told me, when I was admiring a distant prospect in one of our morning walks, that the sight of so many smoking cottages gave a...had not witnessed, like himself, the happiness and worth which cottages contained." Such was the impression which Burns made at first on the fair, the... | |
 | William Jay - 1855 - 624 sidor
...direcbion of the Braid Hills, where they commanded a prospect of the adjacent country, the poet remarked, that the sight of so many smoking cottages gave a pleasure to his mind, which he did not believe any one could understand, that did not know as he did, how much of real worth and... | |
 | William Jay - 1855 - 440 sidor
...direction of the Braid Hills, where they commanded a prospect of the adjacent country, the poet remarked, that the sight of so many smoking cottages gave a pleasure to his mind, which he did not believe any one could understand, that did not know as he did, how much of real worth and... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1856 - 728 sidor
...and I recollect once he told me, when I was admiring a distant prospect in one of our morning-walks, that the sight of so many smoking cottages gave a...the happiness and the worth which they contained. ' In his political principles he was then a Jacobite : which was perhaps owing partly to this, that... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1856 - 474 sidor
...exclamation of liurns, when he wept at the sight of a lovely and peasant-peopled scene: 'The sight,' he said, 'of so many smoking cottages gave a pleasure to his...the happiness and the worth which they contained.' One of his most admirahle poems, ' The Cotter's Saturday THE COTTEB S SATURDAY NIGHT. 381 Night,' is... | |
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