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 vii
... copied an inconsiderable num- ber of them into a book , which he presented to Robert Riddel , of Glenriddel , Esq . Among these was the account of his life , addressed to Dr. Moore , and printed in the first volume . In copying from his ...
... copied an inconsiderable num- ber of them into a book , which he presented to Robert Riddel , of Glenriddel , Esq . Among these was the account of his life , addressed to Dr. Moore , and printed in the first volume . In copying from his ...
Pàgina 20
... copies would cost about twenty - seven pounds , and the printing about fifteen or sixteen : he offers to agree to this for the printing , if I will advance for the paper , but this , you know , is out of my power ; so farewell hopes of ...
... copies would cost about twenty - seven pounds , and the printing about fifteen or sixteen : he offers to agree to this for the printing , if I will advance for the paper , but this , you know , is out of my power ; so farewell hopes of ...
Pàgina 25
... copies , and incomparably more by the handsome 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 ...
... copies , and incomparably more by the handsome 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 ...
Pàgina 28
... copy . I am quite aware , Madam , what task the world would assign me in this letter . The ob- scure bard , when any of the great condescend to take notice of him , should heap the altar with the incense of flattery . Their high ances ...
... copy . I am quite aware , Madam , what task the world would assign me in this letter . The ob- scure bard , when any of the great condescend to take notice of him , should heap the altar with the incense of flattery . Their high ances ...
Pàgina 31
... copy whereof WE have here inclosed ; Our WILL THEREFORE is , that YE pitch upon and appoint the most execrable Individual of that most execrable Species , known by the appellation , phrase , and nickname of THE DEIL'S YELD NOWTE : * and ...
... copy whereof WE have here inclosed ; Our WILL THEREFORE is , that YE pitch upon and appoint the most execrable Individual of that most execrable Species , known by the appellation , phrase , and nickname of THE DEIL'S YELD NOWTE : * and ...
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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.