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 6
... the rest of the family desire to inclose their kind compliments to you , Mrs. Burness , and the rest of your family , along with those of , Dear Sir , Your affectionate Cousin , ROBT . BURNS . No. III . [ The following is taken from the 6.
... the rest of the family desire to inclose their kind compliments to you , Mrs. Burness , and the rest of your family , along with those of , Dear Sir , Your affectionate Cousin , ROBT . BURNS . No. III . [ The following is taken from the 6.
Pàgina 25
... compliments you are pleased to pay my poetic abilities . I am fully persuaded that there is not any class of man- kind so feelingly alive to the titillations of ap- plause as the sons of Parnassus : nor is it easy to conceive how the ...
... compliments you are pleased to pay my poetic abilities . I am fully persuaded that there is not any class of man- kind so feelingly alive to the titillations of ap- plause as the sons of Parnassus : nor is it easy to conceive how the ...
Pàgina 37
... you do in the theory of virtue . This is my prayer in elegant composition in verse . return for your All here join in compliments and good wishes for your further prosperity . No. No. XI . To MR . CHALMERS . MY DEAR 37.
... you do in the theory of virtue . This is my prayer in elegant composition in verse . return for your All here join in compliments and good wishes for your further prosperity . No. No. XI . To MR . CHALMERS . MY DEAR 37.
Pàgina 54
... compliment that Mr. Mackenzie , the celebrated " Man of Feeling , " paid to Miss Lowrie , the other night , at the ... compliments to all the happy inmates of Saint Margaret's . I am , dear Sir , Yours most gratefully , ROBT . BURNS ...
... compliment that Mr. Mackenzie , the celebrated " Man of Feeling , " paid to Miss Lowrie , the other night , at the ... compliments to all the happy inmates of Saint Margaret's . I am , dear Sir , Yours most gratefully , ROBT . BURNS ...
Pàgina 58
... compliment than perhaps you are aware of . It includes almost all the professions , and of course is a proof that your writings are adapted to various tastes and situations . My youngest son who is at Winchester school , writes to me ...
... compliment than perhaps you are aware of . It includes almost all the professions , and of course is a proof that your writings are adapted to various tastes and situations . My youngest son who is at Winchester school , writes to me ...
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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.