The Works of Robert Burns: With an Account of His Life, and a Criticism on His Writings, to which are Prefixed Some Observations on the Character and Condition of the Scottish Peasantry, Том 1T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1820 |
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... interest and attention , and with a full conviction that , extraordinary as they are , they afford but an inadequate proof of the powers of their unfortunate author . Four years afterwards Burns terminated his career . Among those whom ...
... interest and attention , and with a full conviction that , extraordinary as they are , they afford but an inadequate proof of the powers of their unfortunate author . Four years afterwards Burns terminated his career . Among those whom ...
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... interests of the family , and re- ceive the approbation of good men , I shall have my recompense . The errors into which I have fallen , are not I hope very important , and they will be easily accounted for by those who know the ...
... interests of the family , and re- ceive the approbation of good men , I shall have my recompense . The errors into which I have fallen , are not I hope very important , and they will be easily accounted for by those who know the ...
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... interest of the Widow and her Children , at a period when such services were highly important , and not a little difficult . The Editor is happy in an opportunity of doing this justice , tardy and imperfect though it be , to an old ...
... interest of the Widow and her Children , at a period when such services were highly important , and not a little difficult . The Editor is happy in an opportunity of doing this justice , tardy and imperfect though it be , to an old ...
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... interest excited by his early death and the distress of his infant family , has been felt in a remarkable manner wherever his writings have been known ; and these posthu- mous volumes , which give to the world his works complete , and ...
... interest excited by his early death and the distress of his infant family , has been felt in a remarkable manner wherever his writings have been known ; and these posthu- mous volumes , which give to the world his works complete , and ...
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... interest , since their archetypes are lost . Some of the peculiarities common among the more rigid disciples of Cal- vinism in Scotland , in the present times , have given scope to the ridicule of Burns , whose humour is equal to ...
... interest , since their archetypes are lost . Some of the peculiarities common among the more rigid disciples of Cal- vinism in Scotland , in the present times , have given scope to the ridicule of Burns , whose humour is equal to ...
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Стр. 84 - Perhaps the Christian volume is the theme: How guiltless blood for guilty man was shed; How He Who bore in Heaven the second name Had not on earth whereon to lay His head; How...
Стр. 307 - And wear thou this' — she solemn said, And bound the Holly round my head : The polish'd leaves, and berries red, Did rustling play; And, like a passing thought, she fled In light away.
Стр. 125 - I forget the hallowed grove, Where by the winding Ayr we met, To live one day of parting love ! Eternity will not efface Those records dear of transports past ; Thy image at our last embrace ; Ah ! little thought we 'twas our last ! Ayr gurgling kissed his pebbled shore, O'erhung with wild woods, thickening, green ; The fragrant birch, and hawthorn hoar, Twined amorous round the raptured scene.
Стр. 83 - The priest-like father reads the sacred page, How Abram was the friend of God on high ; Or, Moses bade eternal warfare wage With Amalek's ungracious progeny ; Or how the royal bard did groaning lie Beneath the stroke of Heaven's avenging ire ; Or Job's pathetic plaint and wailing cry ; Or rapt Isaiah's wild, seraphic fire ; Or other holy seers that tune the sacred lyre.
Стр. 125 - Mary! dear departed shade! Where is thy place of blissful rest ? Seest thou thy lover lowly laid ? Hear'st thou the groans that rend his breast?
Стр. 84 - And decks the lily fair in flowery pride, Would, in the way His wisdom sees the best, For them and for their little ones provide; But chiefly, in their hearts with grace divine preside.
Стр. 83 - They chant their artless notes in simple guise; They tune their hearts, by far the noblest aim : Perhaps ' Dundee's ' wild warbling measures rise, Or plaintive *• Martyrs...
Стр. 38 - This cultivated the latent seeds of poetry, but had so strong an effect on my imagination, that to this hour, in my nocturnal rambles, I sometimes keep a sharp lookout in suspicious places; and though nobody can be more sceptical than I am in such matters, yet it often takes an effort of philosophy to shake off these idle terrors.
Стр. 55 - I had been for some days skulking from covert to covert, under all the terrors of a jail ; as some ill-advised people had uncoupled the merciless pack of the law at my heels. I had taken the last farewell of my few friends; my chest was on the road to Greenock ; I had composed the last song I should ever measure in Caledonia, The gloomy night is gathering fast * when a letter from Dr.
Стр. 42 - ... when I looked and fingered over her little hand to pick out the cruel nettle-stings and thistles. Among her other loveinspiring qualities, she sung sweetly ; and it was her favourite reel to which I attempted giving an embodied vehicle in rhyme.