The Works of Robert Burns: With His Life, Том 7Cochrane and M'Crone, 1834 - Всего страниц: 394 |
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... feel disinclined to claim for three or four of these effusions the protection of insobriety , there is an audacity and dash about them which alarm the timid and the sensitive . Nay Syme , as he collected for Currie the correspondence of ...
... feel disinclined to claim for three or four of these effusions the protection of insobriety , there is an audacity and dash about them which alarm the timid and the sensitive . Nay Syme , as he collected for Currie the correspondence of ...
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... feel in the inner man . No news worth any thing : only godly Bryan was in the inquisition yesterday , and half the country- side as witnesses against him . He still stands out steady and denying : but proof was led yesternight VOL . VII ...
... feel in the inner man . No news worth any thing : only godly Bryan was in the inquisition yesterday , and half the country- side as witnesses against him . He still stands out steady and denying : but proof was led yesternight VOL . VII ...
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... feeling an elevation of soul like the enthusiasm of devotion or poetry . Tell me , my dear friend , to what can this be owing ? Are we a piece of machinery , which , like the Eolian harp , passive , takes the impression of the passing ...
... feeling an elevation of soul like the enthusiasm of devotion or poetry . Tell me , my dear friend , to what can this be owing ? Are we a piece of machinery , which , like the Eolian harp , passive , takes the impression of the passing ...
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... feeling and reflection was not uncommon in the household of " The Burns " the following letter will sufficiently shew : — " DEAR BROTHER , " Mossgiel , 1st Jan. 1789 . " I HAVE just finished my New - year's day breakfast in the usual ...
... feeling and reflection was not uncommon in the household of " The Burns " the following letter will sufficiently shew : — " DEAR BROTHER , " Mossgiel , 1st Jan. 1789 . " I HAVE just finished my New - year's day breakfast in the usual ...
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... Feeling , Man of the World , Guthrie's Geographical Grammar , with some re- ligious pieces , will likely be our first order . When I grow richer , I will write to you on gilt post , to make amends for this sheet . At present , every ...
... Feeling , Man of the World , Guthrie's Geographical Grammar , with some re- ligious pieces , will likely be our first order . When I grow richer , I will write to you on gilt post , to make amends for this sheet . At present , every ...
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acquaintance addressed Ayrshire ballad book of Job bosom Burns Captain Riddel character CHARLES SHARPE charming compliments composition copy creature CUNNINGHAM d-mned dear friend dear Madam DEAR SIR devil Dumfries DUNLOP Dunscore Edinburgh Ellisland enclosed epistle esteem excise fancy fate favour favourite feel FINTRAY friendship genius gentleman give hand happy heart honest honour hope house of Comyn human humble servant humour idea indebted kind lady late letter Lord McMurdo merit mind muse Mylne's never night Nith Nithsdale noble obliged perhaps perusal pleasure poem poet poet's poetic poetry poor present Queensbury racter Ragwort reason respect rhymes river Doon Scotland Scottish Shanter shew sincere song soul spirit stanzas tell thee thing thou thought tion verses virtue wife WILLIAM SMELLIE wish worth write wrote young
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Стр. 134 - As cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country.
Стр. 127 - 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. 309 - I saw in the visions of my head upon my bed, and, behold, a Watcher and an Holy One came down from heaven ; he cried aloud, and said thus, Hew down the tree, and cut off his branches, shake off his leaves, and scatter his fruit: let the beasts get away from under it, and the fowls from his branches...
Стр. 58 - Man, this is one of the most extraordinary, that he shall go on from day to day, from week to week, from month to month.
Стр. 274 - 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...
Стр. 142 - Coffins stood round, like open presses; That shaw'd the dead in their last dresses; And by some devilish...
Стр. 320 - How are you, my dear friend, and how comes on your fifth volume ? You may probably think that for some time past I have neglected you and your work ; but, alas! the hand of pain, sorrow, and care, has these many months lain heavy on me.
Стр. 68 - It is the moon, I ken her horn, That's blinkin' in the lift sae hie ; She shines sae bright to wyle us hame, But, by my sooth, she'll wait a wee ! We are na fou, &c.
Стр. 5 - 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. 167 - In this was every art, and every charm, To win the wisest, and the coldest warm: Fond love, the gentle vow, the gay desire, The kind deceit, the still-reviving fire, Persuasive speech, and more persuasive sighs, Silence that spoke, and eloquence of eyes.