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 4
... poor insignificant devil , unnoticed and unknown , stalking up and down fairs and markets , when I happen to be in them , reading a page or two of Mankind , and " catching the manners living as they rise , " whilst the men of business ...
... poor insignificant devil , unnoticed and unknown , stalking up and down fairs and markets , when I happen to be in them , reading a page or two of Mankind , and " catching the manners living as they rise , " whilst the men of business ...
Pàgina 16
... poor , indolent devil he has left behind him . * There is a noble sublimity , a heart - melting tenderness in some of our ancient ballads , which shew them to be the work of a masterly hand ; and it has often given me many a heart ...
... poor , indolent devil he has left behind him . * There is a noble sublimity , a heart - melting tenderness in some of our ancient ballads , which shew them to be the work of a masterly hand ; and it has often given me many a heart ...
Pàgina 17
... poor rustic bard unknown , pays this sympathetic pang to your memory . Some of you tell us , with all the charms of verse , that you have been unfortunate in the world- unfortunate in love : he , too , has felt the loss of his little ...
... poor rustic bard unknown , pays this sympathetic pang to your memory . Some of you tell us , with all the charms of verse , that you have been unfortunate in the world- unfortunate in love : he , too , has felt the loss of his little ...
Pàgina 25
... poor bard dances with rapture , when those , whose cha- racter in life gives them a right to be polite judges , honor him with their approbation . Had you been thoroughly acquainted with me , Ma- dam , you could not have touched my ...
... poor bard dances with rapture , when those , whose cha- racter in life gives them a right to be polite judges , honor him with their approbation . Had you been thoroughly acquainted with me , Ma- dam , you could not have touched my ...
Pàgina 71
... " " The poet's fate is here in emblem shewn , He ask'd for bread , and he received a stone . " It is I believe upon poor Butler's tomb that this this is written . But how many brothers of Parnassus 71 8th March, 1787.
... " " The poet's fate is here in emblem shewn , He ask'd for bread , and he received a stone . " It is I believe upon poor Butler's tomb that this this is written . But how many brothers of Parnassus 71 8th March, 1787.
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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.