The Life and Land of BurnsJ & H.G. Langley, 1841 - 363 էջ |
From inside the book
Արդյունքներ 37–ի 1-ից 5-ը:
Էջ 25
... composed on horse- back ; in riding in the middle of tempests , over the wildest Galloway moor , in company with a Mr. Syme , who , ob- serving the poet's looks , forbore to speak , —judiciously enough , ―for a man composing Bruce's ...
... composed on horse- back ; in riding in the middle of tempests , over the wildest Galloway moor , in company with a Mr. Syme , who , ob- serving the poet's looks , forbore to speak , —judiciously enough , ―for a man composing Bruce's ...
Էջ 26
... composed that air the night before his execution ; on the wings of that poor melody , his bet- ter soul would soar away above oblivion , pain , and all the ignominy and despair , which , like an avalanche , was hurl- ing him to the ...
... composed that air the night before his execution ; on the wings of that poor melody , his bet- ter soul would soar away above oblivion , pain , and all the ignominy and despair , which , like an avalanche , was hurl- ing him to the ...
Էջ 79
... composed he put them on paper , but he kept them to himself : though a poet at sixteen , he seems not to have made even his brother his confidante till he became a man , and his judgment had ripened . He , however , made a little ...
... composed he put them on paper , but he kept them to himself : though a poet at sixteen , he seems not to have made even his brother his confidante till he became a man , and his judgment had ripened . He , however , made a little ...
Էջ 95
... composed the greater part of his immor- tal poems in two years , from the summer of 1784 to the summer of 1786 , would be evidence sufficient . The muse must have been strong within him , when , in spite of the rains and sleets of the ...
... composed the greater part of his immor- tal poems in two years , from the summer of 1784 to the summer of 1786 , would be evidence sufficient . The muse must have been strong within him , when , in spite of the rains and sleets of the ...
Էջ 96
... composed a whole poem at once , but satisfied with a few fervent verses , laid the subject aside , till the muse summoned him to another exertion of fancy . In a little back closet , still existing in the farm - house of Mossgiel , he ...
... composed a whole poem at once , but satisfied with a few fervent verses , laid the subject aside , till the muse summoned him to another exertion of fancy . In a little back closet , still existing in the farm - house of Mossgiel , he ...
Այլ խմբագրություններ - View all
Common terms and phrases
auld banks bard beauty Birks of Aberfeldy bonnie Brig brother Burns's called charms composed Dalswinton dear sir Doon Dugald Stewart Dumfries Earl of Glencairn Edinburgh elegant Ellisland fair fame fancy farm farmer father favorite feeling genius Glencairn grace hand happy heart heaven Highland honor hope humble humor inspired Jacobitism John John Anderson Kilmarnock kind kirk lady land lasses letter light lived look Lord lyric Mauchline mind moral Mossgiel mother muse native nature never night Nith Nithsdale noble perhaps pleasure plough poems poet poet's poetic poetry poor rhyme Robert Burns rustic satire says scene Scotland Scottish seems sentiments Shanter song soul spirit strain stream sweet Tarbolton taste things Thomson thou thought tion true verse voice walk Wallace wife WILLIAM DUNBAR wonder words write written wrote young
Սիրված հատվածներ
Էջ 175 - E'en drown'd himsel amang the nappy. As bees flee hame wi' lades o' treasure, The minutes wing'd their way wi' pleasure: Kings may be blest but Tam was glorious, O'er a' the ills o
Էջ 312 - Our toils obscure, and a' that; The rank is but the guinea's stamp, The Man's the gowd for a' that. What though on hamely fare we dine, Wear hoddin gray, and a' that; Gie fools their silks, and knaves their wine. A Man's a Man for a
Էջ 187 - O' my sweet Highland Mary. How sweetly bloom'd the gay green birk, How rich the hawthorn's blossom, As underneath their fragrant shade I clasp'd her to my bosom ! The golden hours on angel wings Flew o'er me and my dearie; For dear to me as light and life Was my sweet Highland Mary. Wi' mony a vow and lock'd embrace Our parting was fu' tender; And pledging aft to meet again, We tore oursels asunder; But, Oh!
Էջ 221 - John Anderson my jo. John Anderson my jo, John, We clamb the hill thegither ; And mony a canty day, John, We've had wi' ane anither : Now we maun totter down, John, But hand in hand we'll go, And sleep thegither at the foot, John Anderson my jo.
Էջ 166 - There was a strong expression of sense and shrewdness in all his lineaments ; the eye alone, I think, indicated the poetical character and temperament. It was large, and of a dark cast, and glowed (I say literally glowed] when he spoke with feeling or interest. I never saw such another eye in a human head, though I have seen the most distinguished men in my time.
Էջ 261 - With friendship, peace, and contemplation join'd, How many, rack'd with honest passions, droop In deep retir'd distress. How many stand Around the death-bed of their dearest friends, And point the parting anguish. Thought fond man Of these, and all the thousand nameless ills, That one incessant struggle render life, One scene of toil, of suffering, and of fate...
Էջ 73 - In my infant and boyish days, too, I owed much to an old woman who resided in the family, remarkable for her ignorance, credulity, and superstition. She had, I suppose, the largest collection in the country of tales and songs concerning devils, ghosts, fairies, brownies, witches, warlocks, spunkies, kelpies, elf-candles, dead-lights, wraiths, apparitions, cantraips, giants, enchanted towers, dragons, and other trumpery.
Էջ 134 - They reel'd, they set, they cross'd, they cleekit, Till ilka carlin swat and reekit, And coost her duddies to the wark, And linket at it in her sark! Now Tam, O Tam, had thae been queans, A' plump and strapping in their teens! Their sarks, instead o' creeshie flannen, Been snaw-white seventeen hunder linen!
Էջ 23 - We know nothing, or next to nothing, of the substance or structure of our souls, so cannot account for those seeming caprices in them, that one should be particularly pleased with this thing, or struck with that, which, on minds of a different cast, makes no extraordinary impression. I have some...
Էջ 45 - ... talents. His features are represented in Mr Nasmyth's picture, but to me it conveys the idea that they are diminished as if seen in perspective. I think his countenance was more massive than it looks in any of the portraits.