The Works of Robert Burns: With His Life, Volume 7 |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 38
Page iii
... important date , which those who desire to trace the history of the Poet would not willingly lose . In the progress of this work it has been more than once intimated that Burns addressed before his marriage a number of Letters to a lady in.
... important date , which those who desire to trace the history of the Poet would not willingly lose . In the progress of this work it has been more than once intimated that Burns addressed before his marriage a number of Letters to a lady in.
Page 23
... once to adjust the ceremonials in making a bow , or making way to a great man , and that too within a second of the precise spherical angle of reverence , or an inch of the particular point of respectful distance , which the important ...
... once to adjust the ceremonials in making a bow , or making way to a great man , and that too within a second of the precise spherical angle of reverence , or an inch of the particular point of respectful distance , which the important ...
Page 32
... once the puling nursling of thy faithful care , and tender arms ! Call me thy son , thy cousin , thy kinsman , or favourite , and adjure the god by the scenes of his infant years , no longer to repulse me as a stranger , or an alien ...
... once the puling nursling of thy faithful care , and tender arms ! Call me thy son , thy cousin , thy kinsman , or favourite , and adjure the god by the scenes of his infant years , no longer to repulse me as a stranger , or an alien ...
Page 34
... once may illustrate and honour my story . Thou first of our orators , first of our wits ; Yet whose parts and acquirements seem mere lucky hits ; With knowledge so vast , and with judgment so strong , No man with the half of ' em e'er ...
... once may illustrate and honour my story . Thou first of our orators , first of our wits ; Yet whose parts and acquirements seem mere lucky hits ; With knowledge so vast , and with judgment so strong , No man with the half of ' em e'er ...
Page 44
... once rational and religious . - ED . ] SIR , No. CXLVI . TO WILLIAM CREECH , ESQ . Ellisland , 30th May , 1789 . I HAD intended to have troubled you with a long letter , but at present the delightful sensations of an omnipotent tooth ...
... once rational and religious . - ED . ] SIR , No. CXLVI . TO WILLIAM CREECH , ESQ . Ellisland , 30th May , 1789 . I HAD intended to have troubled you with a long letter , but at present the delightful sensations of an omnipotent tooth ...
Contents
41 | |
42 | |
68 | |
75 | |
82 | |
90 | |
96 | |
99 | |
109 | |
117 | |
124 | |
129 | |
131 | |
136 | |
144 | |
156 | |
161 | |
248 | |
256 | |
257 | |
262 | |
269 | |
271 | |
277 | |
283 | |
287 | |
296 | |
304 | |
310 | |
316 | |
320 | |
327 | |
333 | |
338 | |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
acquaintance addressed Ayrshire ballad book of Job bosom Burns Captain Riddel character CHARLES SHARPE charming compliments composition copy creature CUNNINGHAM d-mned dear friend dear Madam DEAR SIR devil Dumfries DUNLOP Dunscore Edinburgh Ellisland enclosed epistle esteem excise fancy fate favour favourite feel FINTRAY friendship genius gentleman give hand happy heart honest honour hope house of Comyn human humble servant humour idea indebted kind lady late letter Lord McMurdo merit mind muse Mylne's never night Nith Nithsdale noble obliged perhaps perusal pleasure poem poet poet's poetic poetry poor present Queensbury racter Ragwort reason respect rhymes river Doon Scotland Scottish Shanter shew sincere song soul spirit stanzas tell thee thing thou thought tion verses virtue wife WILLIAM SMELLIE wish worth write wrote young
Popular passages
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.