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
... but five of the letters thus selected by the poet , to be found in the present volume , the rest being thought of inferior merit , or otherwise unfit for the public eye . b 2 In viii ADVERTISEMENT . In printing this volume , the Editor.
... but five of the letters thus selected by the poet , to be found in the present volume , the rest being thought of inferior merit , or otherwise unfit for the public eye . b 2 In viii ADVERTISEMENT . In printing this volume , the Editor.
Pàgina 21
... merit in it , as my gratitude is not a virtue , the conse- quence of reflection ; but sheerly the instinctive emotion of a heart , too inattentive to allow worldly maxims and views to settle into selfish habits . I have been feeling all ...
... merit in it , as my gratitude is not a virtue , the conse- quence of reflection ; but sheerly the instinctive emotion of a heart , too inattentive to allow worldly maxims and views to settle into selfish habits . I have been feeling all ...
Pàgina 26
... my heroic countryman to have lodged , I recollect ( for even then I was a rhymer ) that my heart glowed with a wish to be able to make a song on him in some measure equal to his merits . No. No. VII . To MRS . STEWART of STAIR . 26.
... my heroic countryman to have lodged , I recollect ( for even then I was a rhymer ) that my heart glowed with a wish to be able to make a song on him in some measure equal to his merits . No. No. VII . To MRS . STEWART of STAIR . 26.
Pàgina 27
... myself , it has some merit ; both as a tolerable description of one of na- ture's sweetest scenes , a July evening ; and one of the finest pieces of nature's workmanship , the the finest indeed we know any thing of , an 27.
... myself , it has some merit ; both as a tolerable description of one of na- ture's sweetest scenes , a July evening ; and one of the finest pieces of nature's workmanship , the the finest indeed we know any thing of , an 27.
Pàgina 34
... the former , could immediately be printed ; as it appears certain that its intrinsic merit , and the exertion of the author's friends , might give it a more universal circulation than any any thing of the kind , which has been published 34.
... the former , could immediately be printed ; as it appears certain that its intrinsic merit , and the exertion of the author's friends , might give it a more universal circulation than any any thing of the kind , which has been published 34.
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Frases i termes més freqüents
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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.