Life of Robert BurnsConstable and Company, 1828 - 310 էջ |
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... and therefore , when he did rebuke , he was listened to with a kind of reverential awe . A look of disapproba- tion was felt ; a reproof was severely so : and a stripe with the tawz , even on the skirt of ROBERT BURNS . 13.
... and therefore , when he did rebuke , he was listened to with a kind of reverential awe . A look of disapproba- tion was felt ; a reproof was severely so : and a stripe with the tawz , even on the skirt of ROBERT BURNS . 13.
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... look - out in suspi- cious 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 . The earliest composition that I re- collect taking ...
... look - out in suspi- cious 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 . The earliest composition that I re- collect taking ...
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... have been ashamed at any period of his life : — " She dresses aye sae clean and neat , Baith decent and genteel , And then there's something in her gait Gars ony dress look wecl . " " Silly and puerile as it is , " said 24 LIFE OF.
... have been ashamed at any period of his life : — " She dresses aye sae clean and neat , Baith decent and genteel , And then there's something in her gait Gars ony dress look wecl . " " Silly and puerile as it is , " said 24 LIFE OF.
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... look up to the divine Disposer of Events , with an eye of gratitude for the blessing which I hope he intends to bestow on me , in bestowing you . " What follows is from Burns's Letter , in answer to that in which the young woman ...
... look up to the divine Disposer of Events , with an eye of gratitude for the blessing which I hope he intends to bestow on me , in bestowing you . " What follows is from Burns's Letter , in answer to that in which the young woman ...
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... look forward into futurity ; for the least anxiety or perturbation in my breast produces most unhappy effects on my whole frame . Sometimes , indeed , when for an hour or two my spirits are alightened , I glimmer a little into futurity ...
... look forward into futurity ; for the least anxiety or perturbation in my breast produces most unhappy effects on my whole frame . Sometimes , indeed , when for an hour or two my spirits are alightened , I glimmer a little into futurity ...
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Էջ 258 - He is a man speaking to men: a man, it is true, endowed with more lively sensibility, more enthusiasm and tenderness, who has a greater knowledge of human nature, and a more comprehensive soul, than are supposed to be common among mankind; a man pleased with his own passions, and volitions, and who rejoices more than other men in the spirit of life that is in him; delighting to contemplate similar volitions and passions as manifested in the goings-on of the Universe, and habitually impelled to create...
Էջ 187 - Bagdat, in order to pass the rest of the day in meditation and prayer. As I was here airing myself on the tops of the mountains, I fell into a profound contemplation on the vanity of human life; and passing from one thought to another, Surely, said I, man is but a shadow and life a dream.
Էջ 114 - 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, which 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 of my time.
Էջ 297 - O'er a' the ills o' life victorious! But pleasures are like poppies spread: You seize the...
Էջ 264 - THESE, as they change, ALMIGHTY FATHER, these Are but the varied God. The rolling year Is full of THEE. Forth in the pleasing Spring THY beauty walks, THY tenderness and love. Wide flush the fields ; the softening air is balm ; Echo the mountains round ; the forest smiles ; And every sense, and every heart is joy. Then comes THY glory in the Summer months, With light and heat refulgent.
Էջ 24 - I was not so presumptuous as to imagine that I could make verses like printed ones, composed by men who had Greek and Latin; but my girl sung a song, which was said to be composed by a small country laird's son, on one of his father's maids, with whom he was in love ! and I saw no reason why I might not rhyme as well as he...
Էջ 81 - Again ye have heard that it hath been said by them of old time, Thou shalt not, forswear thyself, but shalt perform unto the Lord thine oaths...
Էջ 187 - On the fifth day of the moon, which, according to the custom of my forefathers, I always keep holy, after having washed myself and offered up my morning devotions, I ascended the high hills of Bagdat in order to pass the rest of the day in meditation and prayer.
Էջ 80 - Ye banks and braes and streams around The castle o' Montgomery, Green be your woods, and fair your flowers, Your waters never drumlie ! There simmer first unfauld her robes, And there the langest tarry ; For there I took the last fareweel O
Էջ 188 - I have some favourite flowers in spring, among which are the mountain-daisy, the hare-bell, the fox-glove, the wild-brier rose, the budding birch, and the hoary hawthorn, that I view and hang over with particular delight.