Robert Burns: As a Poet, and as a ManBaker and Scribner, 1848 - 209 pages |
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... less true representations of the novel , will lose their undue fasci- nation . Poetry is the very highest form of literature . It is in fact the noblest , by far , of all the arts . Sculpture , painting , and music , all combined , are ...
... less true representations of the novel , will lose their undue fasci- nation . Poetry is the very highest form of literature . It is in fact the noblest , by far , of all the arts . Sculpture , painting , and music , all combined , are ...
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... less than the moral , belongs to the soul of man . This is the great truth , by which I shall endeavor to raise the veil of mystery , which hangs over the beauty of nature . I expect to show that the beauty which we behold in nature ...
... less than the moral , belongs to the soul of man . This is the great truth , by which I shall endeavor to raise the veil of mystery , which hangs over the beauty of nature . I expect to show that the beauty which we behold in nature ...
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... less glorious is it than the soul within , which wooes , and wins , and fills , and purifies , and hallows , and exalts the heart of man , until bound in a spell of bliss so ineffable , he feels that the winning graces which come so ...
... less glorious is it than the soul within , which wooes , and wins , and fills , and purifies , and hallows , and exalts the heart of man , until bound in a spell of bliss so ineffable , he feels that the winning graces which come so ...
Page 52
... less in- fluence , according to circumstances . Hordes of bar- barians with strong features of character , and pos ... less where the ancient culture was strongest , and greater where it was weakest . Accordingly , the Italian , of all ...
... less in- fluence , according to circumstances . Hordes of bar- barians with strong features of character , and pos ... less where the ancient culture was strongest , and greater where it was weakest . Accordingly , the Italian , of all ...
Page 55
... less complacency took the place of the grave dignity of former times , and showed that effeminacy had su- perseded the manliness and robust energy of English character . The most sacred ties of social life were looked upon as trifles ...
... less complacency took the place of the grave dignity of former times , and showed that effeminacy had su- perseded the manliness and robust energy of English character . The most sacred ties of social life were looked upon as trifles ...
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Page 90 - O wad some Pow'r the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us ! It wad frae monie a blunder free us And foolish notion : What airs in dress an' gait wad lea'e us, And ev'n devotion ! EPISTLE TO A YOUNG FRIEND.
Page 64 - An' weary winter comin' fast, An' cozie here, beneath the blast, Thou thought to dwell, Till crash! the cruel coulter past Out thro' thy cell. That wee bit heap o' leaves an' stibble Has cost thee mony a weary nibble!
Page 89 - Tho' they may gang a kennin wrang, To step aside is human : One point must still be greatly dark, The moving Why they do it ; And just as lamely can ye mark, How far perhaps they rue it. Who made the heart, 'tis He alone Decidedly can try us, He knows each chord its various tone, Each spring its various bias : Then at the balance let's be mute, We never can adjust it ; What's done we partly may compute, But know not what's resisted.
Page 44 - What makes the youth sae bashfu' an' sae grave ; Weel pleas'd to think her bairn's respected like the lave. O happy love ! where love like this is found ! O heart-felt raptures ! bliss beyond compare ! I've paced much this weary, mortal round, And sage experience bids me this declare: — "If Heaven a draught of heavenly pleasure spare, One cordial in this melancholy vale, 'Tis when a youthful, loving, modest pair, In other's arms breathe out the tender tale, Beneath the milk-white thorn that scents...
Page 179 - The bridegroom may forget the bride Was made his wedded wife yestreen ; The monarch may forget the crown ' That on his head an hour has been ; The mother may forget the child That smiles sae sweetly on her knee ; But I'll remember thee, Glencairn, And a' that thou hast done for me ! " LINES, SENT TO SIR JOHN WHITEFORD, OF WHITEFORD, BART.
Page 133 - There was a strong expression of sense and shrewdness in all his lineaments ; the eye alone, I think, indicated the poetical character and temperament. It was large, and of a dark cast, and glowed (I say literally glowed] when he spoke with feeling or interest.
Page 89 - Then gently scan your brother man, Still gentler sister woman; Though they may gang a kennin' wrang, To step aside is human.
Page 174 - We know nothing, or next to nothing, of the substance or structure of our souls, so cannot account for those seeming caprices in them that one should be particularly pleased with this thing, or struck with that, which, on minds of a different cast, makes no extraordinary impression. I have some favourite flowers in spring, among which are the mountain-daisy, the harebell, the foxglove, the wild-brier rose, the budding birch, and the hoary hawthorn, that I view and hang over with particular delight.
Page 28 - He who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day of death is fled, The first dark day of nothingness, The last of danger and distress, (Before Decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers...
Page 20 - And missing thee, I walk unseen On the dry smooth-shaven green. To behold the wandering moon, Riding near her highest noon. Like one that had been led astray Through the heaven's wide pathless way, And oft, as if her head she bowed, Stooping through a fleecy cloud.