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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... CHARACTER AND CONDITION OF THE SCOTTISH PEASANTRY . BY JAMES CURRIE , M. D. F. R. S. IN FOUR VOLUMES . VOL . II . THE EIGHTH EDITION . TO WHICH are now added , some FURTHER PARTICULARS OF THE AUTHOR'S LIFE , NEW NOTES , ILLUSTRATIVE OF ...
... CHARACTER AND CONDITION OF THE SCOTTISH PEASANTRY . BY JAMES CURRIE , M. D. F. R. S. IN FOUR VOLUMES . VOL . II . THE EIGHTH EDITION . TO WHICH are now added , some FURTHER PARTICULARS OF THE AUTHOR'S LIFE , NEW NOTES , ILLUSTRATIVE OF ...
Pàgina vi
... character , or perhaps in more studied language . In the chaos of his manuscripts , some of the original sketches were found : and as these sketches , though less perfect , are fairly to be considered as the offspring of his mind ...
... character , or perhaps in more studied language . In the chaos of his manuscripts , some of the original sketches were found : and as these sketches , though less perfect , are fairly to be considered as the offspring of his mind ...
Pàgina viii
... characters , who have not been in the habit of carrying their compositions to the press . These corrections have never been extended to any habitual modes of expression of the Poet , even where his phraseology may seem to violate the ...
... characters , who have not been in the habit of carrying their compositions to the press . These corrections have never been extended to any habitual modes of expression of the Poet , even where his phraseology may seem to violate the ...
Pàgina xii
... character , .. XLIII . To Mrs. DUNLOP . 21st Jan. 1788 . Written on recovery from sickness , XLIV . Extract to the same . 12th Feb. 1788 . Defence of himself , • · • • 128 130 133 135 136 XLV . To the Same . 7th March , 1788. Who had ...
... character , .. XLIII . To Mrs. DUNLOP . 21st Jan. 1788 . Written on recovery from sickness , XLIV . Extract to the same . 12th Feb. 1788 . Defence of himself , • · • • 128 130 133 135 136 XLV . To the Same . 7th March , 1788. Who had ...
Pàgina xix
... Character and temperament of a poet , CXLII . To JOHN M'MURDO , Esq . Dec. 1793. Repaying money , • CXLIII . To Mrs. R ***** . Advising her Page 404 407 410 414 421 424 426 . 432 • 434 what play to bespeak at the Dum- fries Theatre ...
... Character and temperament of a poet , CXLII . To JOHN M'MURDO , Esq . Dec. 1793. Repaying money , • CXLIII . To Mrs. R ***** . Advising her Page 404 407 410 414 421 424 426 . 432 • 434 what play to bespeak at the Dum- fries Theatre ...
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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.