The works of Robert Burns; with an account of his life, and a criticism on his writings, Հատոր 11800 |
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... brother ( Gilbert ) who could drive the plough te very well , and help me to thrash the corn . " novel - writer might perhaps have viewed these scenes with some satisfaction , but so did not I ; 66 my indignation yet boils at the ...
... brother ( Gilbert ) who could drive the plough te very well , and help me to thrash the corn . " novel - writer might perhaps have viewed these scenes with some satisfaction , but so did not I ; 66 my indignation yet boils at the ...
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... brother and I took a neighbouring farm . My brother wanted my hair - brained imagina- tion , as well as my social and amorous mad- ness ; but in good sense , and every sober qua- lification , he was far my superior . " I entered on this ...
... brother and I took a neighbouring farm . My brother wanted my hair - brained imagina- tion , as well as my social and amorous mad- ness ; but in good sense , and every sober qua- lification , he was far my superior . " I entered on this ...
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... brother ; in truth it was only no- " minally mine ; and made what little preparation " was in my power for Jamaica . But , before " leaving my native country for ever , I resolved " to publish my poems . I weighed my produc- ❝tions as ...
... brother ; in truth it was only no- " minally mine ; and made what little preparation " was in my power for Jamaica . But , before " leaving my native country for ever , I resolved " to publish my poems . I weighed my produc- ❝tions as ...
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... brother , Gilbert Burns , was ignorant that he had himself written the foregoing narrative of his life while in Ayrshire ; and having been applied to by Mrs. Dun- lop for some memoirs of his brother , he complied with her request in a ...
... brother , Gilbert Burns , was ignorant that he had himself written the foregoing narrative of his life while in Ayrshire ; and having been applied to by Mrs. Dun- lop for some memoirs of his brother , he complied with her request in a ...
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... brother modernized into Burns , was originally Burnes or Burness . Their father , William Burnes , was the son of a farmer in Kincar- dineshire , and had received the education common in Scotland to persons in his condition of life ; he ...
... brother modernized into Burns , was originally Burnes or Burness . Their father , William Burnes , was the son of a farmer in Kincar- dineshire , and had received the education common in Scotland to persons in his condition of life ; he ...
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Էջ 87 - Then kneeling down, to Heaven's eternal King, The saint, the father, and the husband prays: Hope "springs exulting on triumphant wing," That thus they all shall meet in future days, There ever bask in uncreated rays, No more to sigh, or shed the bitter tear, Together hymning their Creator's praise. In such society, yet still more dear; While circling time moves round in an eternal sphere.
Էջ 86 - 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 his first followers and servants sped: The precepts sage they wrote to many a land: How he, who lone in Patmos banished, Saw in the sun a mighty angel stand; And heard great Babylon's doom pronounced by Heaven's command. Then, kneeling down to heaven's Eternal King, The saint, the father, and the husband prays; Hope springs...
Էջ 86 - 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.
Էջ 87 - And proffer up to heaven the warm request, That HE who stills the raven's clam'rous nest, And decks the lily fair in flow'ry 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.
Էջ 49 - Poesy was still a darling walk for my mind, but it was only indulged in according to the humour of the hour. I had usually half a dozen or more pieces on hand; I took up one or other, as it suited the momentary tone of the mind, and dismissed the work as it bordered, on fatigue. My passions, when once lighted up, raged like so many devils, till they got vent in rhyme; and then the conning over my verses, like a spell, soothed all into quiet!
Էջ 85 - The sire turns o'er, wi' patriarchal grace, The big ha' Bible, ance his father's pride. His bonnet rev'rently is laid aside, His lyart haffets wearing thin an' bare ; Those strains that once did sweet in Zion glide, He wales a portion with judicious care ; And " Let us worship God !
Էջ 43 - ... promises, kindly stepped in, and carried him away, to where the wicked cease from troubling and where the weary are at rest!
Էջ 45 - The great misfortune of my life was — to want an aim. I had felt early some stirrings of ambition, but they were the blind gropings of Homer's Cyclops round the walls of his cave.
Էջ 254 - The poetic genius of my country found me, as the prophetic bard Elijah did Elisha, at the plough, and threw her inspiring mantle over me. She bade me sing the loves, the joys, the rural scenes and rural pleasures of my native soil, in my native tongue. I tuned my wild, artless notes, as she inspired.
Էջ 301 - But, fare you weel, auld Nickie-ben! O wad ye tak a thought an' men' ! Ye aiblins might — I dinna ken — • Still hae a stake — I'm wae to think upo' yon den, Ev'n for your sake ! THE DEATH AND DYING WORDS OF POOR MAILIE, THE AUTHOR'S ONLY PET YOWE.