The Works of Robert Burns: With an Account of His Life, and a Criticism on His Writings, to which are Prefixed Some Observations on the Character and Condition of the Scottish Peasantry, 1. kötetT. Cadell and W. Davies, 1820 |
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ix. oldal
... superior fame of the Macedonian phalanx , or of the Roman le- gion , and which has lately made the shores of Europe and of Africa resound with the shouts of victory , from the Texel to the Tagus , and from the Tagus to the Nile ! The ...
... superior fame of the Macedonian phalanx , or of the Roman le- gion , and which has lately made the shores of Europe and of Africa resound with the shouts of victory , from the Texel to the Tagus , and from the Tagus to the Nile ! The ...
39. oldal
... superior advantages ; the youngling actors who were busy in the rehearsal of parts in which they were shortly to appear on the stage of life , where , alas ! I was destined to drudge be- hind the scenes . It is not commonly at this ...
... superior advantages ; the youngling actors who were busy in the rehearsal of parts in which they were shortly to appear on the stage of life , where , alas ! I was destined to drudge be- hind the scenes . It is not commonly at this ...
51. oldal
... superior to mine , and I was all attention to learn . He was the only man I ever saw , who was a greater fool than myself , where woman was the presiding star ; but he spoke of illicit love with the levity of a sailor , which hitherto I ...
... superior to mine , and I was all attention to learn . He was the only man I ever saw , who was a greater fool than myself , where woman was the presiding star ; but he spoke of illicit love with the levity of a sailor , which hitherto I ...
52. oldal
... superior . " I entered on this farm with a full resolu- tion , come , go to , I will be wise ! I read farm- ing books , I calculated crops ; I attended mar- kets ; and in short , in spite of the devil , and the world , and the flesh , I ...
... superior . " I entered on this farm with a full resolu- tion , come , go to , I will be wise ! I read farm- ing books , I calculated crops ; I attended mar- kets ; and in short , in spite of the devil , and the world , and the flesh , I ...
111. oldal
... superior gratification in the perusal of such works ; and it may be added , that it is of more consequence they should be made happy in their original condition , than furnished with the means , or with the desire of rising above it ...
... superior gratification in the perusal of such works ; and it may be added , that it is of more consequence they should be made happy in their original condition , than furnished with the means , or with the desire of rising above it ...
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acquaintance Adventures of Telemachus afterwards appear Ayrshire Bachelor's Club bard beautiful bonny lass brother Burns's character charms conduct conversation cultivated degree delicacy dialect Dumfries Earl of Glencairn Edinburgh effect Ellisland English excelled fancy farm father favorable friendship genius Gilbert Burns give habits happiness heart honor House of Stewart humble humour imagination interest Jedburgh Jenny Geddes Kilmarnock kind labour lady language letter lived manners marriage Mauchline melancholy ment mentioned mind moral Mossgiel Murdoch muse nae-body native nature never night objects observations occasion parish particular passion peasant perhaps persons pleasure poems poet poet's poetical poetry poor powers produced racter Ramsay received respect Robert Burns rustic scenery scenes Scot Scotland seemed sensibility sentiments situation society spirit sublime superior talents Tarbolton taste tender thought tion verses virtue William Burnes writing
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84. oldal - Perhaps the Christian volume is the theme: How guiltless blood for guilty man was shed; How He Who bore in Heaven the second name Had not on earth whereon to lay His head; How...
307. oldal - And wear thou this' — she solemn said, And bound the Holly round my head : The polish'd leaves, and berries red, Did rustling play; And, like a passing thought, she fled In light away.
125. oldal - I forget the hallowed grove, Where by the winding Ayr we met, To live one day of parting love ! Eternity will not efface Those records dear of transports past ; Thy image at our last embrace ; Ah ! little thought we 'twas our last ! Ayr gurgling kissed his pebbled shore, O'erhung with wild woods, thickening, green ; The fragrant birch, and hawthorn hoar, Twined amorous round the raptured scene.
83. oldal - The priest-like father reads the sacred page, How Abram was the friend of God on high ; Or, Moses bade eternal warfare wage With Amalek's ungracious progeny ; Or how the royal bard did groaning lie Beneath the stroke of Heaven's avenging ire ; Or Job's pathetic plaint and wailing cry ; Or rapt Isaiah's wild, seraphic fire ; Or other holy seers that tune the sacred lyre.
125. oldal - Mary! dear departed shade! Where is thy place of blissful rest ? Seest thou thy lover lowly laid ? Hear'st thou the groans that rend his breast?
84. oldal - And decks the lily fair in flowery pride, Would, in the way His wisdom sees the best, For them and for their little ones provide; But chiefly, in their hearts with grace divine preside.
83. oldal - They chant their artless notes in simple guise; They tune their hearts, by far the noblest aim : Perhaps ' Dundee's ' wild warbling measures rise, Or plaintive *• Martyrs...
38. oldal - This cultivated the latent seeds of poetry, but had so strong an effect on my imagination, that to this hour, in my nocturnal rambles, I sometimes keep a sharp lookout in suspicious places; and though nobody can be more sceptical than I am in such matters, yet it often takes an effort of philosophy to shake off these idle terrors.
55. oldal - I had been for some days skulking from covert to covert, under all the terrors of a jail ; as some ill-advised people had uncoupled the merciless pack of the law at my heels. I had taken the last farewell of my few friends; my chest was on the road to Greenock ; I had composed the last song I should ever measure in Caledonia, The gloomy night is gathering fast * when a letter from Dr.
42. oldal - ... when I looked and fingered over her little hand to pick out the cruel nettle-stings and thistles. Among her other loveinspiring qualities, she sung sweetly ; and it was her favourite reel to which I attempted giving an embodied vehicle in rhyme.