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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... young Lady residing on the Banks of the Devon . 175 On Gordon Castle On the Birth - day of Prince Charles Edward Soliloquy on the Author's Marriage . • . 121 124 . 133 • . 184 • • • . 186 195 The Song of Death · • 217 THE NEW YORK FUCHS ...
... young Lady residing on the Banks of the Devon . 175 On Gordon Castle On the Birth - day of Prince Charles Edward Soliloquy on the Author's Marriage . • . 121 124 . 133 • . 184 • • • . 186 195 The Song of Death · • 217 THE NEW YORK FUCHS ...
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... young peasant as soon as he had acquired a know- ledge of his alphabet ; and his first exercise in the art of reading , introduced him to the most mysterious doctrines of the Christian faith . This practice is continued in our own times ...
... young peasant as soon as he had acquired a know- ledge of his alphabet ; and his first exercise in the art of reading , introduced him to the most mysterious doctrines of the Christian faith . This practice is continued in our own times ...
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... young men and women walk many miles in the cold and dreary night of winter , to these country dancing - schools ; and the instant that the violin sounds a Scottish air , fatigue seems to vanish , the toil - bent rustic be- comes erect ...
... young men and women walk many miles in the cold and dreary night of winter , to these country dancing - schools ; and the instant that the violin sounds a Scottish air , fatigue seems to vanish , the toil - bent rustic be- comes erect ...
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... young of both sexes , where dancing is prac- tised to their spirit - stirring music , where care is dispelled , toil is forgotten , and prudence it- self is sometimes lulled to sleep . The reformation , which proved fatal to the rise of ...
... young of both sexes , where dancing is prac- tised to their spirit - stirring music , where care is dispelled , toil is forgotten , and prudence it- self is sometimes lulled to sleep . The reformation , which proved fatal to the rise of ...
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... young ideas such a turn , that I used to strut in raptures up and down after the recruiting drum and bag - pipe , and wish myself tall enough to be a soldier ; while the story of Wallace poured a Scottish pre- judice judice into my ...
... young ideas such a turn , that I used to strut in raptures up and down after the recruiting drum and bag - pipe , and wish myself tall enough to be a soldier ; while the story of Wallace poured a Scottish pre- judice judice into my ...
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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.