Robert Burns: As a Poet, and as a ManBaker and Scribner, 1848 - 209 էջ |
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... Duchess of Gordon , twenty - one ; the Earl of Glencairn and his Coun- tess , twenty - four ; the Scots College at Valladolid , the Scots College at Douay , the Scots College at Paris , the Scots Benedictine Monastery at Ratisbon , all ...
... Duchess of Gordon , twenty - one ; the Earl of Glencairn and his Coun- tess , twenty - four ; the Scots College at Valladolid , the Scots College at Douay , the Scots College at Paris , the Scots Benedictine Monastery at Ratisbon , all ...
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... Duchess of Gordon remark this . I do not know any thing I can add to these recollections of forty years since . " This narrative of Scott , is certainly calculated to give us a high estimate of the abilities of Burns . In- deed , it is ...
... Duchess of Gordon remark this . I do not know any thing I can add to these recollections of forty years since . " This narrative of Scott , is certainly calculated to give us a high estimate of the abilities of Burns . In- deed , it is ...
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... Duchess of Gordon , very beautiful , very witty , and accomplished in all those graces which cultivated society lends to the natural elegancies of a highbred woman , was at this time at the head of fashion in Edinburgh . Having a taste ...
... Duchess of Gordon , very beautiful , very witty , and accomplished in all those graces which cultivated society lends to the natural elegancies of a highbred woman , was at this time at the head of fashion in Edinburgh . Having a taste ...
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... Duchess of Gordon , the Countess of Glencairn , with my Lord and Lady Betty Cunningham - the Dean of Fac- ulty - Sir John Whiteford . I have likewise warm friends among the literati ; Professors Stewart , Blair , and Mackenzie , the Man ...
... Duchess of Gordon , the Countess of Glencairn , with my Lord and Lady Betty Cunningham - the Dean of Fac- ulty - Sir John Whiteford . I have likewise warm friends among the literati ; Professors Stewart , Blair , and Mackenzie , the Man ...
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... Gordon Castle next day , with the Duke , Duchess and fam- ily . " What an excellent narrative this is , so much in a few words ! Burns intended to tarry at Castle Gor- don but Nicol of the High School of Edinburgh , his travelling ...
... Gordon Castle next day , with the Duke , Duchess and fam- ily . " What an excellent narrative this is , so much in a few words ! Burns intended to tarry at Castle Gor- don but Nicol of the High School of Edinburgh , his travelling ...
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Էջ 64 - An' weary winter comin fast, An' cozie here, beneath the blast, Thou thought to dwell — Till crash ! the cruel coulter past Out thro' thy cell. That wee bit heap o...
Էջ 90 - O wad some Pow'r the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us ! It wad frae monie a blunder free us And foolish notion : What airs in dress an' gait wad lea'e us, And ev'n devotion ! EPISTLE TO A YOUNG FRIEND.
Էջ 89 - Tho' they may gang a kennin wrang, To step aside is human : One point must still be greatly dark, The moving Why they do it ; And just as lamely can ye mark, How far perhaps they rue it. Who made the heart, 'tis He alone Decidedly can try us, He knows each chord its various tone, Each spring its various bias : Then at the balance let's be mute, We never can adjust it ; What's done we partly may compute, But know not what's resisted.
Էջ 44 - What makes the youth sae bashfu' an' sae grave ; Weel pleas'd to think her bairn's respected like the lave. O happy love ! where love like this is found ! O heart-felt raptures ! bliss beyond compare ! I've paced much this weary, mortal round, And sage experience bids me this declare: — "If Heaven a draught of heavenly pleasure spare, One cordial in this melancholy vale, 'Tis when a youthful, loving, modest pair, In other's arms breathe out the tender tale, Beneath the milk-white thorn that scents...
Էջ 179 - The bridegroom may forget the bride Was made his wedded wife yestreen ; The monarch may forget the crown ' That on his head an hour has been ; The mother may forget the child That smiles sae sweetly on her knee ; But I'll remember thee, Glencairn, And a' that thou hast done for me ! " LINES, SENT TO SIR JOHN WHITEFORD, OF WHITEFORD, BART.
Էջ 133 - 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.
Էջ 105 - Though it cost the schoolmaster some thrashings, I made an excellent English scholar ; and by the time I was ten or eleven years of age, I was a critic in substantives, verbs, and particles.
Էջ 174 - 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 favourite flowers in spring, among which are the mountain-daisy, the harebell, the foxglove, the wild-brier rose, the budding birch, and the hoary hawthorn, that I view and hang over with particular delight.
Էջ 28 - He who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day of death is fled, The first dark day of nothingness, The last of danger and distress, (Before Decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers...
Էջ 20 - And missing thee, I walk unseen On the dry smooth-shaven green. To behold the wandering moon, Riding near her highest noon. Like one that had been led astray Through the heaven's wide pathless way, And oft, as if her head she bowed, Stooping through a fleecy cloud.