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... happy returns of the season to you , my dear Sir ! May you be comparatively happy up to your comparative worth among the sons of men ; which wish would , I am sure , make you one of the most blest of the human race . I do not know if ...
... happy returns of the season to you , my dear Sir ! May you be comparatively happy up to your comparative worth among the sons of men ; which wish would , I am sure , make you one of the most blest of the human race . I do not know if ...
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... happy fortune to be honoured with your approbation ; and never did little miss with more sparkling pleasure shew her applauded sampler to partial mamma , than I now send my poem to you and Mr. McMurdo if he is returned to Drumlanrig ...
... happy fortune to be honoured with your approbation ; and never did little miss with more sparkling pleasure shew her applauded sampler to partial mamma , than I now send my poem to you and Mr. McMurdo if he is returned to Drumlanrig ...
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... your letter , and the copy of verses in- closed in it . As there is real poetic merit , I mean both fancy and tenderness , and some happy expressions have in them , I think they well deserve that 38 THE WORKS OF ROBERT BUrns .
... your letter , and the copy of verses in- closed in it . As there is real poetic merit , I mean both fancy and tenderness , and some happy expressions have in them , I think they well deserve that 38 THE WORKS OF ROBERT BUrns .
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... happy years with Mrs. McMurdo , and your family ; two blessings by the bye , to which your rank does not , by any means , entitle you ; a loving wife and fine family being almost the only good things of this life to which the farm ...
... happy years with Mrs. McMurdo , and your family ; two blessings by the bye , to which your rank does not , by any means , entitle you ; a loving wife and fine family being almost the only good things of this life to which the farm ...
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... happy period of our intercourse to my memory , I feel myself in a state of delirium . I was then younger than him by eight or ten years ; but his manner was so felicitous , that he enraptured every person around him , and infused into ...
... happy period of our intercourse to my memory , I feel myself in a state of delirium . I was then younger than him by eight or ten years ; but his manner was so felicitous , that he enraptured every person around him , and infused into ...
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Page 134 - As cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country.
Page 127 - Thy spirit, Independence, let me share ; Lord of the lion-heart, and eagle-eye ! Thy steps I follow with my bosom bare, Nor heed the storm that howls along the sky...
Page 309 - I saw in the visions of my head upon my bed, and, behold, a Watcher and an Holy One came down from heaven ; he cried aloud, and said thus, Hew down the tree, and cut off his branches, shake off his leaves, and scatter his fruit: let the beasts get away from under it, and the fowls from his branches...
Page 58 - Man, this is one of the most extraordinary, that he shall go on from day to day, from week to week, from month to month.
Page 274 - THESE, as they change, ALMIGHTY FATHER, these Are but the varied God. The rolling year Is full of THEE. Forth in the pleasing Spring THY beauty walks, THY tenderness and love. Wide flush the fields ; the softening air is balm ; Echo the mountains round ; the forest smiles ; And every sense, and every heart is joy. Then comes THY glory in the Summer months...
Page 142 - Coffins stood round, like open presses; That shaw'd the dead in their last dresses; And by some devilish...
Page 320 - How are you, my dear friend, and how comes on your fifth volume ? You may probably think that for some time past I have neglected you and your work ; but, alas! the hand of pain, sorrow, and care, has these many months lain heavy on me.
Page 68 - It is the moon, I ken her horn, That's blinkin' in the lift sae hie ; She shines sae bright to wyle us hame, But, by my sooth, she'll wait a wee ! We are na fou, &c.
Page 5 - I was here airing myself on the tops of the mountains, I fell into a profound contemplation on the vanity of human life; and, passing from one thought to another, surely, said I, man is but a shadow and life a dream.
Page 167 - In this was every art, and every charm, To win the wisest, and the coldest warm: Fond love, the gentle vow, the gay desire, The kind deceit, the still-reviving fire, Persuasive speech, and more persuasive sighs, Silence that spoke, and eloquence of eyes.