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 3
... happy . * However , I am under no apprehensions about that ; for though indolent , yet so far as an extremely de- licate constitution permits , I am not lazy ; and in many things , especially in tavern matters , I am a strict œconomist ...
... happy . * However , I am under no apprehensions about that ; for though indolent , yet so far as an extremely de- licate constitution permits , I am not lazy ; and in many things , especially in tavern matters , I am a strict œconomist ...
Pàgina 11
... happy ! happy ! enviable man ! O glorious magnanimity of soul ! March , 1784 . I have often observed in the course of my experience of human life , that every man , even the worst , has something good about him ; though very often ...
... happy ! happy ! enviable man ! O glorious magnanimity of soul ! March , 1784 . I have often observed in the course of my experience of human life , that every man , even the worst , has something good about him ; though very often ...
Pàgina 15
... happy sweetness of natural temper , and a cheerful vacancy of thought , steals through life , gene- rally indeed in poverty and obscurity ; but po- verty and obscurity are only evils to him who can sit gravely down , and make a repining ...
... happy sweetness of natural temper , and a cheerful vacancy of thought , steals through life , gene- rally indeed in poverty and obscurity ; but po- verty and obscurity are only evils to him who can sit gravely down , and make a repining ...
Pàgina 17
... Happy , could he have done it with your strength of imagination , and flow of verse ! May the turf lie lightly on your bones ! and may you now enjoy that solace and rest , which this world rarely gives to the heart , tuned to all the ...
... Happy , could he have done it with your strength of imagination , and flow of verse ! May the turf lie lightly on your bones ! and may you now enjoy that solace and rest , which this world rarely gives to the heart , tuned to all the ...
Pàgina 29
... happy they could make some classes of their inferiors by condescension and affability , they would never stand so high , measuring out with every look the height of their elevation , but con- descend as sweetly as did Mrs. Stewart of ...
... happy they could make some classes of their inferiors by condescension and affability , they would never stand so high , measuring out with every look the height of their elevation , but con- descend as sweetly as did Mrs. Stewart of ...
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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.