 He was passionately fond of the beauties of nature ; and I recollect once he told me, when I was admiring a distant prospect in one of our morning walks, that the sight of so many smoking cottages gave a pleasure to his mind, which none could understand...  Blackwood's Magazine - Էջ 5471827Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - Այս գրքի մասին
 | Walter Scott - 1837 - 936 էջ
...conversation than he had ever done in company. He was passionately fond of the beauties of nature; and I recollect once he told me, when I was admiring a...the happiness and the worth which they contained." * The view which excited the sympathies of the poet and philosopher, is now much altered by the very... | |
 | James Currie - 1838 - 94 էջ
...conversation than he had ever done in company. He was passionately fond of the beauties of nature; and I recollect once he told me, when I was admiring a...the happiness and the worth which they contained. I do not recollect whether it appears or not from any of your letters to me, that you had ever seen... | |
 | Thomas Cogswell Upham - 1839 - 476 էջ
...these circumstances. "He was passionately fond, (says Dugald Stewart,) of the beauties of nature ; and I recollect once he told me, when I was admiring a...the happiness and the worth which they contained."* While, therefore, we do not hesitate to assert the utility of the imagination and the adaptedness of... | |
 | 1839 - 330 էջ
...the distant prospect, including both shores of the Frith of Forth, the poet ingenuously remarked " that the sight of so many smoking cottages gave a...the happiness and the worth which they contained." And it is even so ; for, in looking forward to the period when these cottages may be exposed to all... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1840 - 584 էջ
...virtuous and intelligent peasantry of Scotland. ' I recollect' once he told me,' says Professor Stewart, 'when I was admiring a distant prospect in one of...the happiness and the worth which they contained.' With such impressions as these upon his mind, he has succeeded in delineating a charming picture of... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1840 - 872 էջ
...says Professor Stewart, ' when I was admiring a distantprospectinoneofourmorning walks, that the eight eathers ; With such impressions as these upon his mind, he has succeeded in delineating a charming picture of... | |
 | Thomas Cogswell Upham - 1841 - 474 էջ
...these circumstances. "He was passionately fond," says Dugald Stewart, " of the beauties of nature ; and I recollect once he told me, when I was admiring a...the happiness and the worth which they contained."* — While, therefore, we do not hesitate to assert the utility of the imagination and the adaptedness... | |
 | Francis Jenks, James Walker, Francis William Pitt Greenwood, William Ware - 1843 - 420 էջ
...Professor Stewart, " of the beauties of nature; and I recollect he once told me, when I was admiring the distant prospect in one of our morning walks, that...the happiness and the worth which they contained." It appears to us that the example of such a family as the Burnses — not a fiction but a fact —... | |
 | 1872 - 862 էջ
...in Dugald Stewart's description of the poet. " I recollect once he told me," says the Professor, " when I was admiring a distant prospect in one of our...witnessed, like himself, the happiness and the worth they contained." These dozen words, fulling upon us all at once, surprise the tears to our eyes. What... | |
 | 1845 - 440 էջ
...conversation, than he had ever done in company. He was passionately fond of the heauties of nature ; and I recollect once he told me, when I was admiring a...the happiness and the worth which they contained. " In his political principles he was then a Jacohite ; which was perhaps owing partly to this, that... | |
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