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
... reason , I now hold the pen for him to thank you for your kind letter , and to assure you , Sir , that it shall not be my fault if my fa- ther's correspondence in the north die with him . My brother writes to John Caird , and to him I ...
... reason , I now hold the pen for him to thank you for your kind letter , and to assure you , Sir , that it shall not be my fault if my fa- ther's correspondence in the north die with him . My brother writes to John Caird , and to him I ...
Pàgina 11
... reason no man can say in what degree any other person , be- sides himself , can be , with strict justice , called wicked . Let any of the strictest character for regularity of conduct among us , examine im- partially how many vices he ...
... reason no man can say in what degree any other person , be- sides himself , can be , with strict justice , called wicked . Let any of the strictest character for regularity of conduct among us , examine im- partially how many vices he ...
Pàgina 14
... reason I put the more confidence in my critical skill , in distinguishing foppery and conceit , from real passion and nature . Whether the following song will stand the test , I will not pretend to say , because it is my own ; only I ...
... reason I put the more confidence in my critical skill , in distinguishing foppery and conceit , from real passion and nature . Whether the following song will stand the test , I will not pretend to say , because it is my own ; only I ...
Pàgina 15
... fellow - creatures ; that so by forming piety and virtue into habit , we may be fit members for that society of the pious and the good , which reason and revelation teach us us to expect beyond the grave : I do not 15.
... fellow - creatures ; that so by forming piety and virtue into habit , we may be fit members for that society of the pious and the good , which reason and revelation teach us us to expect beyond the grave : I do not 15.
Pàgina 18
... the best of friends and the ablest of instruc- tors without feeling , what perhaps the calmer dictates of reason would partly condemn . I hope my father's friends in your country will not I hope 18 Lochlee, 17th February, 1784,
... the best of friends and the ablest of instruc- tors without feeling , what perhaps the calmer dictates of reason would partly condemn . I hope my father's friends in your country will not I hope 18 Lochlee, 17th February, 1784,
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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.