 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 - 1876 - 540 sidor
...ever done in company. When I was admiring a distant prospect in one of our morning walks, he told me that the sight of so many smoking cottages gave a...the happiness and the worth which they contained." APEIL 4.—[Date of the Poet's Dedication to the Caledonian Hunt.—P. 135, VoL L] „ 9.—[Commences... | |
 | Peter Freeland Aiken - 1876 - 468 sidor
...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." Burns went to Edinburgh not to compose poetry, but to publish what he had already written, and had... | |
 | P. F. Aiken - 1876 - 454 sidor
...admiring a distant prospect in "one of our morning walks, that the sight of so many " smoking collages gave a pleasure to his mind, which ''none could understand...the happiness and the worth which they " contained." Burns went to Edinburgh not to compose poetry, but to publish what he had already written, and had... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1876 - 412 sidor
...in the company of a friend, he was looking from an eminence over a wide tract of country, he said, that the sight of so many smoking cottages gave a pleasure to his mind that none could understand who had not witnessed, like himself, the happiness and worth which they... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1876 - 410 sidor
...in the company of a friend, he was looking from an eminence over a wide tract of country, he said, that the sight of so many smoking cottages gave a pleasure to his mind that none could understand who had not witnessed, like himself, the happiness and worth which they... | |
 | Allan Cunningham, Charles Mackay - 1879 - 628 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 Davis (B.A.) - 1879 - 232 sidor
...B). D. Where they commanded a prospect of the adjacent country (Subord. Adv. Sent. of Place to C). E. That the sight of so many smoking cottages gave a pleasure to his mind (Subord. Noun Sent., obj. of " remarked " in B) . P. He did not believe (Subord. Adj. Sent. to "pleasure"... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1880 - 362 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 . . . but he did not appear to have thought much... | |
 | Mrs. Oliphant (Margaret) - 1882 - 538 sidor
...beauties of nature, and he once told me when I was admiring a distant prospect, in one of our many walks, that the sight of so many smoking cottages gave a...had not witnessed, like himself, the happiness and worth which they contained." This comes to us with a sense of relief and happy return to nature and... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - 1882 - 720 sidor
...a distant prospect in one of our morning walks, that the *ight of so ninny smoking cottages gave .1 pleasure to his mind, which none could understand...the happiness and the worth which they contained." With si.ch impressions as these upon his mind, he has succeeded in delineating a charm, ing picture... | |
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