The Works of Robert Burns: With an Account of His Life , and a Criticism on His Writing. To which are Prefixed, Some Observations on the Character and Condition of the Scottish Peasantry, Том 2T. Cadell and W. Davies ; and W. Creech at Edinburgh, 1813 |
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... Lord Glencairn , XL . To Sir JOHN WHITEFOORD . • 120 122 · Dec. 1787. Thanks for Friendship . - Re- flections on the poetical character , 124 XLI . To Mrs. DUNLOP . 21st Jan. 1788 . Written on recovery from sickness , . 127 XLII ...
... Lord Glencairn , XL . To Sir JOHN WHITEFOORD . • 120 122 · Dec. 1787. Thanks for Friendship . - Re- flections on the poetical character , 124 XLI . To Mrs. DUNLOP . 21st Jan. 1788 . Written on recovery from sickness , . 127 XLII ...
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... Lord Mon- boddo , at whose house I have had the honour to be more than once . There has not been any thing nearly like her , in all the combinations of beauty , grace , and goodness , the great Creator has formed , since Milton's Eve on ...
... Lord Mon- boddo , at whose house I have had the honour to be more than once . There has not been any thing nearly like her , in all the combinations of beauty , grace , and goodness , the great Creator has formed , since Milton's Eve on ...
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... LORD , Edinburgh , January , 1787 . As I have but slender pretensions to philosophy , I cannot rise to the exalted ideas of a citizen of the world ; but have all those na- tional prejudices which , I believe , glow pecu- liarly strong ...
... LORD , Edinburgh , January , 1787 . As I have but slender pretensions to philosophy , I cannot rise to the exalted ideas of a citizen of the world ; but have all those na- tional prejudices which , I believe , glow pecu- liarly strong ...
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... Lord , certainly deserves my very grateful acknowledgments ; but your patronage is a bounty peculiarly suited to my feelings . I am not master enough of the eti- quette of life to know whether there be not some impropriety in troubling ...
... Lord , certainly deserves my very grateful acknowledgments ; but your patronage is a bounty peculiarly suited to my feelings . I am not master enough of the eti- quette of life to know whether there be not some impropriety in troubling ...
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... Lord Eglinton , with ten guineas , by way of subscrip- tion for two copies of my next edition . The word you object to in the mention I have made of my glorious countryman and your immortal ancestor , is indeed , borrowed from Thomson ...
... Lord Eglinton , with ten guineas , by way of subscrip- tion for two copies of my next edition . The word you object to in the mention I have made of my glorious countryman and your immortal ancestor , is indeed , borrowed from Thomson ...
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Стр. 319 - As cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country.
Стр. 314 - Thy spirit, Independence ! let me share, Lord of the lion heart and eagle eye ! Thy steps I follow 'with my bosom bare, Nor heed the storm that howls along the sky.
Стр. 196 - 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, surely, said I, man is but a shadow and life a dream.
Стр. 190 - Go fetch to me a pint o' wine, And fill it in a silver tassie, That I may drink, before I go, A service to my bonnie lassie. The boat rocks at the pier o...
Стр. 196 - I have some favourite flowers in spring, among which are the mountain^daisy, the hare-bell, the fox-glove, the wild-brier rose, the budding birch, and the hoary hawthorn, that I view and hang over with particular delight. I never hear the loud, solitary whistle of the curlew in a summer noon, or the wild mixing cadence of a troop of grey plover in an autumnal morning, without feeling an elevation of soul like the enthusiasm of devotion or poetry.
Стр. 448 - THESE, as they change, ALMIGHTY FATHER, these Are but the varied God. The rolling year Is full of THEE. Forth in the pleasing Spring THY beauty walks, THY tenderness and love. Wide flush the fields ; the softening air is balm ; Echo the mountains round ; the forest smiles ; And every sense, and every heart is joy. Then comes THY glory in the Summer months, With light and heat refulgent. Then THY sun...
Стр. 123 - The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and Nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the war of elements, The wreck of matter, and the crush of worlds.
Стр. 446 - Still there are two great pillars that bear us up, amid the wreck of misfortune and misery. The ONE is composed of the different modifications of a certain noble, stubborn something in man, known by the names of courage, fortitude, magnanimity.
Стр. 197 - ... 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...
Стр. 402 - I will not attempt an apology. — Amid all my hurry of business, grinding the faces of the publican and the sinner on the merciless wheels of the Excise ; making ballads, and then drinking, and singing them ; and, over and above all, the correcting the press-work of two different publications...