The Life and Land of BurnsJ & H.G. Langley, 1841 - 363 էջ |
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... side through the poor jostlings of existence , can be made of finer clay than themselves . Suppose that some dining ac- quaintance of Sir Thomas Lucy's , and neighbor of John a Combe's , had snatched an hour or two from the preser ...
... side through the poor jostlings of existence , can be made of finer clay than themselves . Suppose that some dining ac- quaintance of Sir Thomas Lucy's , and neighbor of John a Combe's , had snatched an hour or two from the preser ...
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... side is no easy matter . We love Burns , and we pity him ; and love and pity are prone to magnify . Criticism , it is sometimes thought , should be a cold business ; we are not so sure of this ; but , at all events , our concern ...
... side is no easy matter . We love Burns , and we pity him ; and love and pity are prone to magnify . Criticism , it is sometimes thought , should be a cold business ; we are not so sure of this ; but , at all events , our concern ...
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... sides , but be cheated of his Farce ? Man's life and nature is , as it was , and as it will ever be . But the poet must have an eye to read these things , and a heart to understand them ; or they come and pass away before him in vain ...
... sides , but be cheated of his Farce ? Man's life and nature is , as it was , and as it will ever be . But the poet must have an eye to read these things , and a heart to understand them ; or they come and pass away before him in vain ...
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... of first love is gilding his horizon , and the music of song is on his path ; and so he walks in glory and in joy , Behind his plough , upon the mountain side ! " We know , from the best evidence , that up CRITICAL ESSAY . 39.
... of first love is gilding his horizon , and the music of song is on his path ; and so he walks in glory and in joy , Behind his plough , upon the mountain side ! " We know , from the best evidence , that up CRITICAL ESSAY . 39.
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... sides there ; but wild Desires and wild Repentance alter- nately oppress him . Ere long , too , he has committed himself before the world ; his character for sobriety , dear to a Scottish peasant , as few corrupted worldlings can even ...
... sides there ; but wild Desires and wild Repentance alter- nately oppress him . Ere long , too , he has committed himself before the world ; his character for sobriety , dear to a Scottish peasant , as few corrupted worldlings can even ...
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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.