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 9
... or inclination of turning poet , ' till I got once heartily in love ; and then rhyme and song were , in a manner , the spontaneous language my heart . of September . September . 1 entirely agree with that judicious philoso- pher 9.
... or inclination of turning poet , ' till I got once heartily in love ; and then rhyme and song were , in a manner , the spontaneous language my heart . of September . September . 1 entirely agree with that judicious philoso- pher 9.
Pàgina 73
... rhyme upon't ? " But I must give up this trifling , and attend to matters that more concern myself ; so as the Aberdeen wit says , adieu dryly , we sal drink phan we meet . * * The above extract is from a letter of one of the ablest of ...
... rhyme upon't ? " But I must give up this trifling , and attend to matters that more concern myself ; so as the Aberdeen wit says , adieu dryly , we sal drink phan we meet . * * The above extract is from a letter of one of the ablest of ...
Pàgina 94
... rhyme is the coin with which a poet pays his debts of honor or gratitude . What I owe to the noble family of Athole , of the first kind , I shall ever proudly boast ; what I owe of the last , so help me * The humble petition of Bruar ...
... rhyme is the coin with which a poet pays his debts of honor or gratitude . What I owe to the noble family of Athole , of the first kind , I shall ever proudly boast ; what I owe of the last , so help me * The humble petition of Bruar ...
Pàgina 118
... rhyming excur- sions , are both , I think , by far too high . The difference between our two tracts of education and ways of life is entirely in your favor , and gives you the preference every manner of way . I know a classical ...
... rhyming excur- sions , are both , I think , by far too high . The difference between our two tracts of education and ways of life is entirely in your favor , and gives you the preference every manner of way . I know a classical ...
Pàgina 128
... rhymes ; and , as I saw they were extempore , said to myself , they were very well ; but when I saw at the bottom a name that I shall ever value with grateful respect , " I gapit wide but naething spak . " I was nearly as much struck as ...
... rhymes ; and , as I saw they were extempore , said to myself , they were very well ; but when I saw at the bottom a name that I shall ever value with grateful respect , " I gapit wide but naething spak . " I was nearly as much struck as ...
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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.