The Genius, and Character of BurnsA. Hart, late Carey & Hart, 1854 - 222 էջ |
From inside the book
Արդյունքներ 44–ի 1-ից 5-ը:
Էջ 3
... written , this greatest of all merits , intense , life - pervading , and life - breathing truth . There is probably not a human being come to the years of understanding in all Scotland , who has not heard of the name of Robert Burns ...
... written , this greatest of all merits , intense , life - pervading , and life - breathing truth . There is probably not a human being come to the years of understanding in all Scotland , who has not heard of the name of Robert Burns ...
Էջ 34
... written these lines : for association of feeling with feeling , by contrast , is perhaps most of all powerful in music . Believing that there was no devotional spirit in Italian music , it was natural for him to denounce its employment ...
... written these lines : for association of feeling with feeling , by contrast , is perhaps most of all powerful in music . Believing that there was no devotional spirit in Italian music , it was natural for him to denounce its employment ...
Էջ 47
... writing with some bitterness , that he never had been truly and entirely happy at rich men's feasts . If so , then never could he have displayed there his genius in full power and lustre . His noble rage must in some measure have been ...
... writing with some bitterness , that he never had been truly and entirely happy at rich men's feasts . If so , then never could he have displayed there his genius in full power and lustre . His noble rage must in some measure have been ...
Էջ 53
... writing , to keep the image of some fair maiden before the eye of his fancy , " some bright particular star , " and that Hymen was not the divinity he then invoked , yet it was on one of these visits , between Ellisland and Mossgiel ...
... writing , to keep the image of some fair maiden before the eye of his fancy , " some bright particular star , " and that Hymen was not the divinity he then invoked , yet it was on one of these visits , between Ellisland and Mossgiel ...
Էջ 58
... writing in his life of Burns ; but respectable it is not , basely calumnious , and the original source of many of the worst falsehoods even now believed too widely to be truths , concerning the moral character of a man as far superior ...
... writing in his life of Burns ; but respectable it is not , basely calumnious , and the original source of many of the worst falsehoods even now believed too widely to be truths , concerning the moral character of a man as far superior ...
Այլ խմբագրություններ - View all
Common terms and phrases
50 Cents Anne Boleyn auld bard beautiful believe better bonnie Burns's called character charms Cottar's Saturday Night dear death delight Dumfries duty earth Edinburgh Ellisland Excise eyes fear feeling felt frae gauger genius George Thomson glorious hand happy hear heard heart heaven Hector Macneil hope hour human humble imagination inspired Jean Josiah Walker knew labor live look Lord Mauchline mind moral morning Mossgiel mourn muse nature never noble o'er passion pity pleasure poems poet poet's poetical poetry poor Price 50 Cents pride proud racter Robert Burns rustic Scotland Scots wha hae Scottish sentiments Shanter sing song soul spirit stanza story sugh sweet taste tears tells tender thee Thomson thou thought thro tion truth verse virtue volume walk Waverley Novels Whyles wife William Burnes words writes
Սիրված հատվածներ
Էջ 67 - O'er a' the ills o' life victorious! But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flow'r, its bloom is shed; Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment white — then melts for ever; Or like the borealis race That flit ere you can point their place; Or like the rainbow's lovely form Evanishing amid the storm. Nae man can tether time or tide; The hour approaches Tam maun ride; That hour, o...
Էջ 124 - Then let us pray that come it may — As come it will for a...
Էջ 144 - Let him follow me! By Oppression's woes and pains! By your sons in servile chains! We will drain our dearest veins, But they shall be free! •Lay the proud usurpers low ! Tyrants fall in every foe ! Liberty's in every blow! Let us do or die...
Էջ 34 - They chant their artless notes in simple guise; They tune their hearts, by far the noblest aim : Perhaps ' Dundee's ' wild warbling measures rise, Or plaintive *• Martyrs...
Էջ 172 - Fare thee well! and if for ever, Still for ever, fare thee well: Even though unforgiving, never 'Gainst thee shall my heart rebel. Would that breast were bared before thee Where thy head so oft hath lain, While that placid sleep came o'er thee Which thou ne'er canst know again: Would that breast, by thee glanced over, Every inmost thought could show!
Էջ 189 - That hangs his head, and a' that ? The coward-slave, we pass him by, We dare be poor for a' that ! For a' that, and a' that, Our toils obscure, and a' that ; The rank is but the guinea stamp ; The man's the gowd for a
Էջ 16 - Thou ling'ring star, with less'ning ray, That lov'st to greet the early morn, Again thou usher'st in the day My Mary from my soul was torn. O Mary! dear departed shade! Where is thy place of blissful rest? Seest thou thy lover lowly laid? Hear'st thou the groans that rend his breast?
Էջ 185 - ... this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory, this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours.
Էջ 33 - And, oh ! may Heaven their simple lives prevent From luxury's contagion, weak and vile ! Then, howe'er crowns and coronets be rent, A virtuous populace may rise the while, And stand a wall of fire around their much-loved Isle.
Էջ 128 - 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.