The works of Robert Burns; with an account of his life, and a criticism on his writings, Том 11800 |
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... perhaps without some surprise on finding that I have been engaged in editing these volumes , nor without some curio- sity to know how I was qualified for such an undertaking . These points I will briefly explain . Having occasion to ...
... perhaps without some surprise on finding that I have been engaged in editing these volumes , nor without some curio- sity to know how I was qualified for such an undertaking . These points I will briefly explain . Having occasion to ...
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... perhaps be found unworthy of attention in other respects , and the subject is in a great measure new . Scotland has produced persons of high distinction in every branch of philosophy and literature , and her his- tory , while a separate ...
... perhaps be found unworthy of attention in other respects , and the subject is in a great measure new . Scotland has produced persons of high distinction in every branch of philosophy and literature , and her his- tory , while a separate ...
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... perhaps be as rational as humane . But to lay a general tax on property for the support of poverty , from whatever cause proceeding , is a measure full of danger . It must operate in a considerable degree as a bounty on idleness , and a ...
... perhaps be as rational as humane . But to lay a general tax on property for the support of poverty , from whatever cause proceeding , is a measure full of danger . It must operate in a considerable degree as a bounty on idleness , and a ...
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... perhaps impossible to give an arrangement of them in the order of their date , valuable as such a record of taste and man- ners would be . Their present influence on the character of the nation is however great and strik- ing . To them ...
... perhaps impossible to give an arrangement of them in the order of their date , valuable as such a record of taste and man- ners would be . Their present influence on the character of the nation is however great and strik- ing . To them ...
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... perhaps at many miles distance , regardless of the length or the dreariness of the way . He ap- proaches her in secresy , under the disguise of night . A signal at the door or window , perhaps agreed on , and understood by none but her ...
... perhaps at many miles distance , regardless of the length or the dreariness of the way . He ap- proaches her in secresy , under the disguise of night . A signal at the door or window , perhaps agreed on , and understood by none but her ...
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Страница 87 - Then kneeling down, to Heaven's eternal King, The saint, the father, and the husband prays: Hope "springs exulting on triumphant wing," That thus they all shall meet in future days, There ever bask in uncreated rays, No more to sigh, or shed the bitter tear, Together hymning their Creator's praise. In such society, yet still more dear; While circling time moves round in an eternal sphere.
Страница 86 - Perhaps the Christian volume is the theme, How guiltless blood for guilty man was shed; How He, who bore in heaven the second name, Had not on earth whereon to lay his head; How his first followers and servants sped: The precepts sage they wrote to many a land: How he, who lone in Patmos banished, Saw in the sun a mighty angel stand; And heard great Babylon's doom pronounced by Heaven's command. Then, kneeling down to heaven's Eternal King, The saint, the father, and the husband prays; Hope springs...
Страница 86 - With Amalek's ungracious progeny; Or how the royal bard did groaning lie Beneath the stroke of heaven's avenging ire; Or, Job's pathetic plaint, and wailing cry; Or rapt Isaiah's wild, seraphic fire; Or other holy seers that tune the sacred lyre.
Страница 87 - And proffer up to heaven the warm request, That HE who stills the raven's clam'rous nest, And decks the lily fair in flow'ry pride, Would, in the way his wisdom sees the best, For them and for their little ones provide, But chiefly in their hearts with grace divine preside.
Страница 49 - Poesy was still a darling walk for my mind, but it was only indulged in according to the humour of the hour. I had usually half a dozen or more pieces on hand; I took up one or other, as it suited the momentary tone of the mind, and dismissed the work as it bordered, on fatigue. My passions, when once lighted up, raged like so many devils, till they got vent in rhyme; and then the conning over my verses, like a spell, soothed all into quiet!
Страница 85 - 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 !
Страница 43 - ... promises, kindly stepped in, and carried him away, to where the wicked cease from troubling and where the weary are at rest!
Страница 45 - The great misfortune of my life was — to want an aim. I had felt early some stirrings of ambition, but they were the blind gropings of Homer's Cyclops round the walls of his cave.
Страница 254 - The poetic genius of my country found me, as the prophetic bard Elijah did Elisha, at the plough, and threw her inspiring mantle over me. She bade me sing the loves, the joys, the rural scenes and rural pleasures of my native soil, in my native tongue. I tuned my wild, artless notes, as she inspired.
Страница 301 - But, fare you weel, auld Nickie-ben! O wad ye tak a thought an' men' ! Ye aiblins might — I dinna ken — • Still hae a stake — I'm wae to think upo' yon den, Ev'n for your sake ! THE DEATH AND DYING WORDS OF POOR MAILIE, THE AUTHOR'S ONLY PET YOWE.