Burns Centenary 21st July 1896: Great Demonstration at DumfriesHunter, 1896 - 136 страници |
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Страница 88 - For a' that, and a' that, Their dignities, and a' that, The pith o' sense, and pride o' worth, Are higher rank than a' that. Then let us pray that come it may, As come it will for a' that ; That sense and worth, o'er a' the earth, May bear the gree, and a' that. For a
Страница 71 - The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and Nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the war of elements, The wreck of matter, and the crush of worlds.
Страница 97 - All the faculties of Burns's mind were, as far as I could judge, equally vigorous ; and his predilection for poetry was rather the result of his own enthusiastic and impassioned temper, than of a genius exclusively adapted to that species of composition.
Страница 79 - I have sat and wept," almost ever since I wrote you last : I have only known existence by the pressure of the heavy hand of sickness ; and have counted time by the repercussions of pain ! Rheumatism, cold, and fever have formed to me a terrible combination. I close my eyes in misery, and open them without hope.
Страница 43 - Gude faith he mauna fa' that ! For a' that, and a' that, Their dignities, and a' that ; The pith o' sense, and pride o' worth, Are higher rank than a' that. Then let us pray that come it may, As come it will for a' that, That sense and worth o'er a' the earth May bear the gree and a' that. For a
Страница 96 - None, certainly, ever outshone Burns in the charms — the sorcery, I would almost call it — of fascinating conversation, the spontaneous eloquence of social argument, or the unstudied poignancy of brilliant repartee.
Страница 97 - 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 who had not witnessed, like himself, the happiness and the worth which they contained.
Страница 82 - WHY am I loth to leave this earthly scene ? Have I so found it full of pleasing charms ? Some drops of joy with draughts of ill between; Some gleams -of sunshine 'mid renewing storms. Is it departing pangs my soul alarms ; Or death's unlovely, dreary, dark abode ? For guilt, for guilt, my terrors are in arms ; I tremble to approach an angry God, And justly smart beneath his sin-avenging rod. Fain would I say, Forgive my foul offence...
Страница 13 - 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...
Страница 7 - I'll be more respected a hundred years after I am dead than I am at present ! " To-day the hundred years are completed, and we can judge of the prediction.