The Works of Robert Burns;: General correspondance; including pieces of miscellaneous poetryT. Cadell and W. Davies, Strand; and A. Constable and Company, Manners and Miller, Fairbairn and Anderson, A. Black, W. and C. Tait, at Edinburgh; and G. Clark, at Aberdeen., 1820 |
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Pàgina xiii
... Fintry . A petition in verse for a situation in the Excise , • • LIX . To Mr. P. HILL . 1st Oct. 1788. Cri- ticism on a poem , entitled , " An Address to Lochlomond , " • · 170 173 177 • . 182 LX . To Mrs. DUNLOP , at Moreham Maines ...
... Fintry . A petition in verse for a situation in the Excise , • • LIX . To Mr. P. HILL . 1st Oct. 1788. Cri- ticism on a poem , entitled , " An Address to Lochlomond , " • · 170 173 177 • . 182 LX . To Mrs. DUNLOP , at Moreham Maines ...
Pàgina xvii
... Fintry . In- · closing " Queen Mary's Lament . " CXIII . From the Rev. G. BAIRD . 8th Feb. 1781. Requesting assistance in pub- lishing the poems of Michael Bruce , CXIV . To the Rev. G. BAIRD . In reply to the above , CXV . To Dr. MOORE ...
... Fintry . In- · closing " Queen Mary's Lament . " CXIII . From the Rev. G. BAIRD . 8th Feb. 1781. Requesting assistance in pub- lishing the poems of Michael Bruce , CXIV . To the Rev. G. BAIRD . In reply to the above , CXV . To Dr. MOORE ...
Pàgina 168
... epistle I am going to write to the gentle- man on whose friendship my excise hopes de- pend , Mr. Graham of Fintry , one of the wor- thiest and most accomplished gentlemen , not only only of this country , but , I will dare 168.
... epistle I am going to write to the gentle- man on whose friendship my excise hopes de- pend , Mr. Graham of Fintry , one of the wor- thiest and most accomplished gentlemen , not only only of this country , but , I will dare 168.
Pàgina 177
... FINTRY . SIR , WHEN I had the honor of being in- troduced to you at Athole - house , I did not think so soon of asking a favor of you . When Lear , in Shakspeare , asks old Kent why he wished to be in his service , he answers , " Be ...
... FINTRY . SIR , WHEN I had the honor of being in- troduced to you at Athole - house , I did not think so soon of asking a favor of you . When Lear , in Shakspeare , asks old Kent why he wished to be in his service , he answers , " Be ...
Pàgina 181
... Fintry . It is not equal to the second , printed vol . iii .; but it contains too much of the characteristic vigour of its author to be suppressed . A little more knowledge of natural history or of chemistry was wanted to enable him to ...
... Fintry . It is not equal to the second , printed vol . iii .; but it contains too much of the characteristic vigour of its author to be suppressed . A little more knowledge of natural history or of chemistry was wanted to enable him to ...
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Frases i termes més freqüents
acquaintance Ayrshire ballad bard beautiful BLACKLOCK brother Burns character charming compliments composition copy creature criticism CUNNINGHAM dare DEAR SIR debts of honor Dryburgh Abbey Dumfries DUNLOP Earl of Glencairn Edinburgh Ellisland esteem excise fame fancy fate favor favorite feel fellow Fintry follies friendship genius gentleman give happy hear heart Heaven honest honor hope House of Stewart human idea inclosed JOHN SKINNER kind lady late letter Lord Mauchline merit mind misery muse Nancy native nature ness never Nithsdale obliging patron perhaps pity pleased pleasure poem poet poetic poetry poor present pride reason reverend rhymes ROBERT BURNS Robert Fergusson Scotland Scottish sent sentiment Shanter shew sincerely sing song soon soul spirit stanzas Stewart sweet taste thee thing thou thought tion truly verses virtue wish wretch write
Passatges populars
Pàgina 197 - An' 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...
Pàgina 68 - No sculptur'd marble here, nor pompous lay, " No storied urn nor animated bust," This simple stone directs pale Scotia's way To pour her sorrows o'er her poet's dust.
Pàgina 203 - 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.
Pàgina 13 - I believe, may be partly owing to my misfortunes giving my mind a melancholy cast : but there is something even in the ' Mighty tempest, and the hoary waste, Abrupt, and deep stretch'd o'er the buried earth," which raises the mind to a serious sublimity favourable to every thing great and noble.
Pàgina 329 - As cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country.
Pàgina 196 - 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...
Pàgina 76 - I have no dearer aim than to have it in my power, unplagued with the routine of business, for which, heaven knows ! I am unfit enough, to make leisurely pilgrimages through Caledonia ; to sit on the fields of her battles ; to wander on the romantic banks of her rivers ; and to muse by the stately towers or venerable ruins, once the honoured abodes of her heroes.
Pàgina 204 - I never hear the loud solitary whistle of the curlew in a summer noon, or the wild mixing cadence of a troop of gray plover in an autumnal morning, without feeling an elevation of soul like the enthusiasm of devotion or poetry.
Pàgina 459 - 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.
Pàgina 48 - For my part, my first ambition was, and still my strongest wish is, to please my compeers, the rustic inmates of the hamlet, while ever-changing language and manners shall allow me to be relished and understood.