...exclamation of liurns, when he wept at the sight of a lovely and peasant-peopled scene: 'The sight,' he said, 'of so many smoking cottages gave a pleasure to his...the happiness and the worth which they contained.' One of his most admirahle poems, ' The Cotter's Saturday THE COTTEB S SATURDAY NIGHT. 381 Night,' is...

...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...

...friend," noticing the curling smoke issuing from cottages in the distance, he observed, " That the sight gave a pleasure to his mind which none could understand...witnessed, like himself, the happiness and the worth they contained." The home of Richard Furness was of this kind. Apart from the busy world, its excitement,...

...exclamation of Burns when he wept at the sight of a lovely and peasant-peopled scene : u The sight/' he said, "of so many smoking cottages gave a pleasure to his...the happiness and the worth which they contained." One of his most admirable poems, ' The Cotter's Saturday Night/ is nothing but an amplification of...

...peasant-peopled scene : " The sight," he said, "of so many smoking cottages gave a pleasure to hia mind, which none could understand who had not witnessed,...the happiness and the worth which they contained." One of his most admirable poems, 'The Cotter's Saturday Night,' is nothing but an amplification of...

...ever done in company. When I was admiring a distant prospect in one of our morning walks, he told me that the sight of so many smoking cottages gave a...the happiness and the worth which they contained." APRIL 4.— pate of the Poet's Dedication to the Caledonian Hunt.— P. 135, Vol. L] „ 9. — [Commences...

...found in Dugald Stewart's decription 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, falling upon us an at once, surprise the tears to our eyes. What...

...found 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...witnessed, like himself, the happiness and the worth they contained." These dozen words, falling upon us all at once, surprise the tears to our eyes. What...

...in one of our morning walks, that the sight of so many smoking cottages gave a pleasure to his mmd which none could understand who had not witnessed, like himself, the happiness and the worth they contained." These dozen words, falling upon us all at once surprise the tears to our eyes. What...

...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 our...witnessed, like himself, the happiness and the worth which thev contained." With such impressions as these upon his mind, he has succeeded in delineating a charming...