 | Robert Burns - 1866 - 356 sidor
...illustrious names of his native land ; those who bear the honours and inherit the virtues of their ancestors? The Poetic Genius of my Country found me, as the prophetic...the PLOUGH; and threw her inspiring MANTLE over me. She bade me sing the loves, the joys, the rural scenes and rural pleasures of my native soil, in my... | |
 | Eneas Sweetland Dallas - 1866 - 762 sidor
...wind and sluet to the shelter of a securer hovcL" — ALLAN 1 ClJNMINOHAM. t Th« river Ayr. • " The poetic genius of my country found me as the prophetic bard Elijah did Elisha, at the plough, and threw bar inspiring mantle around me." — Burn/ Dedication. t The Sicilian and the Doric measures were the... | |
 | Eneas Sweetland Dallas - 1866 - 758 sidor
...The torch he lit will ever burn. SYDNBT WHTTIKO. • " The poetic genius of my country found me at the prophetic bard Elijah did Elisha, at the plough, and threw her inspiring mantle around me." — Burnt' Dedication. t The Sicilian and the Doric meamiree were the extreme of the tender... | |
 | Robert Burns, James Currie - 1869 - 624 sidor
...names' of his native Land — those who bear the honors and Inherit the virtues of their Ancestors f The Poetic Genius of my Country found me, as the prophetic...the plough ; and threw her inspiring mantle over me. She bade me sing the loves, the Joys, the rural scenes and rural pleasures of my native soil In my... | |
 | Robert Burns, James Currie - 1870 - 642 sidor
...inherit the virtues of their Ancestors? The Poetic Genius of my Country found me, as the prophetie hard Elijah did Elisha— at the plough ; and threw her inspiring mantle over me. She bade me sing the loves, the joys, the rural scenes and rural pleasures of my native soil in my... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1871 - 516 sidor
...Land; those who bear the honours and inherit the virtues of their Ancestors ?— The Poetic Genins of my Country found me as the prophetic bard Elijah...the plough; and threw her inspiring mantle over me. She bade me eing the loves, the Joys, the rural scenes and rural pleasures of my natal Soil, in my... | |
 | Francis Henry Underwood - 1871 - 664 sidor
...thirty-seven. Perhaps the best idea of the songs of Burns can be had from his own preface: "The fVuc genius of my country found me. as the prophetic bard Elijah did Elisha, at the "^gh, and threw her inspiring mantle over me. Sbe bade me sing the loves, the joys, LH; rural scenes... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1872 - 740 sidor
...whose highest ambition is to sing in his country's service. " The poetic genius of my country (he adds) found me, as the prophetic bard Elijah did Elisha,...at the plough, and threw her inspiring mantle over nie. She bade me sing the loves, the joys, the rural scenes and rural pleasures of my native soil,... | |
 | George Shaw - 1873 - 672 sidor
...the poet's dedications, in which he says, "The poetic genins of my country found me, as the prophet bard Elijah did Elisha, at the plough, and threw her inspiring mantle over me." The church pew, on which Burns had cut his initials during "wearying sermonizing," has been lately removed.... | |
 | Sydney Whiting - 1873 - 350 sidor
...of wind and sleet to the shelter of a securer hovel." — AI.I.AX CUNNIXOHASI. 5 The river Ayr. s " The poetic genius of my country found me as the prophetic bard Elijah did Klisha, at the plough, and threw her inspiring mantle around me " — BURNS' Dedication. 4 The Sicilian... | |
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The Poetic Genius of my Country found me, as the prophetic bard Elijah did Elisha — at the PLOUGH, and threw her inspiring mantle over me. 
