Early Critical Reviews on Robert BurnsW. Hodge, 1900 - 313 էջ |
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... rustic bard to Shakespeare , yet whoever will read his lighter and more humorous poems , his " Dialogue of the Dogs , " his " Dedication to G- H Esq . , " his " Epistle to a Young Friend , " and " To W. S- -n , " will perceive with what ...
... rustic bard to Shakespeare , yet whoever will read his lighter and more humorous poems , his " Dialogue of the Dogs , " his " Dedication to G- H Esq . , " his " Epistle to a Young Friend , " and " To W. S- -n , " will perceive with what ...
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... rustic with a slight tincture of letters ; or if in these songs the character of the rustic be sometimes assumed , the truth of character and the language of nature are preserved . With unaffected simplicity and tenderness topics are ...
... rustic with a slight tincture of letters ; or if in these songs the character of the rustic be sometimes assumed , the truth of character and the language of nature are preserved . With unaffected simplicity and tenderness topics are ...
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... rustic bards lived and died in obscurity ; and by a strange fatality , their story , and even their very names , have been forgotten . * When proper models for pastoral songs were produced , there would be no want of imitators . To ...
... rustic bards lived and died in obscurity ; and by a strange fatality , their story , and even their very names , have been forgotten . * When proper models for pastoral songs were produced , there would be no want of imitators . To ...
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... rustic , yet justly admired . by persons of taste , who regarded them as the genuine offspring of the pastoral muse . In some respects Ramsay had advantages not possessed by poets writing in the Scottish dialect in our days . Songs in ...
... rustic , yet justly admired . by persons of taste , who regarded them as the genuine offspring of the pastoral muse . In some respects Ramsay had advantages not possessed by poets writing in the Scottish dialect in our days . Songs in ...
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... rustic muse of Scotland has been formed . Christis Kirk of the Grene was reprinted by Ramsay somewhat modernised in the orthography , and two cantos were added by him , in which he attempts to carry on the design . Hence the poem of ...
... rustic muse of Scotland has been formed . Christis Kirk of the Grene was reprinted by Ramsay somewhat modernised in the orthography , and two cantos were added by him , in which he attempts to carry on the design . Hence the poem of ...
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Էջ 55 - But hark ! a rap comes gently to the door ; Jenny, wha kens the meaning o' the same, Tells how a neebor lad cam' o'er the moor, To do some errands, and convoy her hame. The wily mother sees the conscious flame Sparkle in Jenny's e'e, and flush her cheek ; With heart-struck anxious care, inquires his name, While Jenny hafflins is afraid to speak : Weel pleased the mother hears it's nae wild, worthless rake. Wi...
Էջ 78 - Blythe Jenny sees the visit's no ill ta'en ; The father cracks of horses, pleughs, and kye. The youngster's artless heart o'erflows wi...
Էջ 73 - 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 223 - 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 5 - Unskilful he to note the card Of prudent lore, Till billows rage, and gales blow hard, And whelm him o'er ! Such fate to suffering worth is...
Էջ 78 - His wee bit ingle, blinkin bonnily, His clean hearth-stane, his thriftie wifie's smile, The lisping infant prattling on his knee, Does a' his weary carking cares beguile, An' makes him quite forget his labour an' his toil. Belyve the elder bairns come drapping in, At service out, amang the farmers roun
Էջ 61 - Wha will be a traitor knave ? Wha can fill a coward's grave ? Wha sae base as be a slave? Let him turn and flee ! Wha for Scotland's king and law Freedom's sword will strongly draw, Freeman stand, or freeman fa...
Էջ 80 - mang the dewy weet ! Wi' spreckl'd breast, "When upward-springing, blythe, to greet, The purpling east. Cauld blew the bitter-biting north Upon thy early, humble birth ; Yet cheerfully thou glinted forth Amid the storm, Scarce rear'd above the parent earth Thy tender form. The flaunting flowers our gardens yield, High shelt'ring woods and wa's maun shield ; But thou, beneath the random bield O' clod or stane, Adorns the histie stibble-field Unseen, alane.
Էջ 78 - The sire turns o'er, wi' patriarchal grace, The big ha' Bible, ance his father's pride: His bonnet rev'rently is laid aside, His lyart haffets wearing thin an' bare; .Those strains that once did sweet in Zion glide, He wales a portion with judicious care ; And ' Let us worship God !* he says, with solemn air.
Էջ 114 - Had we never loved sae kindly, Had we never loved sae blindly, Never met, or never parted, We had ne'er been broken-hearted.