 | William M'Dowall - 1876 - Страниц: 472
...dedication of his first volume, says : " The Poetic Genius of my country found me, as the prophetic bard Elijah did Elisha, at the plough ; and threw her inspiring mantle over me." It was rightly thought that a marble embodiment of this fine idea would form a fitting ornament... | |
 | 1876 - Страниц: 150
...was taken from the poet's own words, " The Poetic Genius of my country found me as the prophet bard Elijah did Elisha at the plough, and threw her inspiring mantle over me." On the plough was the motto, " A man's a man for a' that." Sir Walter Scott was dressed in a gray... | |
 | Alexander G. Murdoch - 1877 - Страниц: 218
...0' BURNS. AN ANNIVEKSAKY TRIBUTE. " The poetic genius of my country found me, as the prophetic bard Elijah did Elisha, at the plough, and threw her inspiring mantle over me." — Burns to the Gentlemen of ihA Caledonian Hunt. This nicht, in mony a merry core, Thro' toun... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1880 - Страниц: 1024
...inherit the virtues, of their ancestors? The poetic genius of my country found me, as the prophetic bard Elijah did Elisha, at the plough, and threw her inspiring mantle over me. She bade me sing the loves, the joys, the rural scenes and rural pleasures of my native soil, in... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1878 - Страниц: 550
...inherit the virtues of their ancestors ? The Poetic Genius of my Country found me, as the prophetic bard Elijah did Elisha— at the PLOUGH ; and threw her inspiring mantle over me. She bade me sing the loves, the joys, the rural scenes and rural pleasures of my native soil, in... | |
 | 1879 - Страниц: 984
...his first appearance as an author: "The poetic genius of my country found me, as the prophetic bard Elijah did Elisha, at the plough, and threw her inspiring mantle over me." SCOTCH WASHING. THE MOWING. THE clock has struck six, And the morning is fair, While the cast... | |
 | Allan Cunningham, Charles Mackay - 1879 - Страниц: 628
...gentlemen of the Caledonian Tlunt : — " The poetic genius of my country found me, as the prophetic bard, Elijah, did Elisha, at the plough, and threw her inspiring mantle over me." The dust of the bard was again disturbed, when the body of Mrs. Burns was laid, in April, 1834,... | |
 | 1879 - Страниц: 990
...his first appearance as an author: "The poetic genius of my country found me, as the prophetic bard Elijah did Elisha, at the plough, and threw her inspiring mantle over me." . . ift~„ SCOTCH WASHING. THE MOWING. THE clock has struck six, . And the morning is fair, Wliilc... | |
 | Edward Isidore Sears, David Allyn Gorton, Charles H. Woodman - 1880 - Страниц: 1104
...necessary to following their author. " The poetic genius 'of my country found me, as the prophetic bard Elijah did Elisha at the PLOUGH, and threw her inspiring mantle over me. She bade me sing the lives, the joys, the rural scenes and rural pleasures, of my native soil in... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1885 - Страниц: 310
...inherit the virtues of their Ancestors? The Poetic Genius of my Country found me as the prophetic bard Elijah did Elisha — at the plough, and threw her inspiring mantle over me. She bade me sing the loves, the joys, the rural scenes and rural pleasures of my natal Soil, in... | |
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The poetic genius of my country found me, as the prophetic bard Elijah did Elisha, at the plough, and threw her. inspiring mantle over me. 
