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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... Miss A- · · 23 VI . Proclamation in the name of the Muses , 26 VII . Dr. BLACKLOCK to the Rev. G. LowRIE . Encouraging the Bard to visit Edinburgh , and print a new edition of his poems there , 29 VIII . From the Rev. Mr. LOWRIE . 22d ...
... Miss A- · · 23 VI . Proclamation in the name of the Muses , 26 VII . Dr. BLACKLOCK to the Rev. G. LowRIE . Encouraging the Bard to visit Edinburgh , and print a new edition of his poems there , 29 VIII . From the Rev. Mr. LOWRIE . 22d ...
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... Miss Williams , XIV . To the Rev. G. LowRIE . Thanks for ad- vice - reflections on his situation - compli- ment paid to Miss L , by Mr. Mac- kenzie , · · XV . To Dr. MOORE . 15th Feb. 1787 , XVI . From Dr. MOORE . 28th Feb. 1787. Sends ...
... Miss Williams , XIV . To the Rev. G. LowRIE . Thanks for ad- vice - reflections on his situation - compli- ment paid to Miss L , by Mr. Mac- kenzie , · · XV . To Dr. MOORE . 15th Feb. 1787 , XVI . From Dr. MOORE . 28th Feb. 1787. Sends ...
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... of the Family of the Stuarts . Baseness of 183 insulting fallen greatness , LX . To Mrs. DUNLOP . 17th December , with the soldier's song " Go fetch to me a pint o ' wine , " 1 • 188 No. Page LXI . To Miss DAVIES , a young CONTENTS . xiii.
... of the Family of the Stuarts . Baseness of 183 insulting fallen greatness , LX . To Mrs. DUNLOP . 17th December , with the soldier's song " Go fetch to me a pint o ' wine , " 1 • 188 No. Page LXI . To Miss DAVIES , a young CONTENTS . xiii.
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... Miss DAVIES , a young Lady who had heard he had been making a ballad on her , enclosing that ballad , LXII . From Mr. G. BURNS . 1st Jan. 1789 . Reflections suggested by the day LXIII . To Mrs. DUNLOP . 1st Jan. tions suggested by the ...
... Miss DAVIES , a young Lady who had heard he had been making a ballad on her , enclosing that ballad , LXII . From Mr. G. BURNS . 1st Jan. 1789 . Reflections suggested by the day LXIII . To Mrs. DUNLOP . 1st Jan. tions suggested by the ...
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... Miss WILLIAMS . Enclosing a criticism on a poem of her's , . · LXXXII . From Miss WILLIAMS . In reply to the foregoing , LXXXIII . To Mrs. DUNLOP . 6th Sept. 1789 . Praise of Zeluco , • LXXXIV . From Dr. BLACKLOCK . 24th Aug. An epistle ...
... Miss WILLIAMS . Enclosing a criticism on a poem of her's , . · LXXXII . From Miss WILLIAMS . In reply to the foregoing , LXXXIII . To Mrs. DUNLOP . 6th Sept. 1789 . Praise of Zeluco , • LXXXIV . From Dr. BLACKLOCK . 24th Aug. An epistle ...
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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...