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Page v
Having done this, and pointed out numerous interesting objects, he lays no claim
to originality, and aspires to no higher merit than that of having gathered a posy
of other men's flowers and bound it together with a string of his own, in a manner,
...
Having done this, and pointed out numerous interesting objects, he lays no claim
to originality, and aspires to no higher merit than that of having gathered a posy
of other men's flowers and bound it together with a string of his own, in a manner,
...
Page 13
He added that he was determined not to interrupt in any manner the commerce of
the place ; but that all the inhabitants, both whites and blacks, the free merchants
as well as the Company's servants, should have free liberty of trade, and that ...
He added that he was determined not to interrupt in any manner the commerce of
the place ; but that all the inhabitants, both whites and blacks, the free merchants
as well as the Company's servants, should have free liberty of trade, and that ...
Page 19
From a letter to Gavin Hamilton, we learn that he stood high in the estimation of
the poet, and that he interested himself in his affairs in the same enthusiastic
manner as Mr Aitken and the few patrons who took notice of his early poetic days.
From a letter to Gavin Hamilton, we learn that he stood high in the estimation of
the poet, and that he interested himself in his affairs in the same enthusiastic
manner as Mr Aitken and the few patrons who took notice of his early poetic days.
Page 25
After the whole property of this hospital was thus granted away, the only revenue
that remained to it was the feu-duties payable from the lands, in this manner
granted in fee-farm ; and these, amounting to 64 bolls of meal and 8 merks (Scots
) of ...
After the whole property of this hospital was thus granted away, the only revenue
that remained to it was the feu-duties payable from the lands, in this manner
granted in fee-farm ; and these, amounting to 64 bolls of meal and 8 merks (Scots
) of ...
Page 33
His manner was, after he had ended a skirmish amongst his neighbours, and
reconciled these bitter enemies, to cause a covered table to be put upon the
street, and there brought the enemies together, and beginning with prayer he ...
His manner was, after he had ended a skirmish amongst his neighbours, and
reconciled these bitter enemies, to cause a covered table to be put upon the
street, and there brought the enemies together, and beginning with prayer he ...
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Page 17 - Careless their merits, or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began. Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And e'en his" failings leaned to virtue's side ; But in his duty prompt at every call, He watched and wept, he prayed and felt for all.
Page 190 - There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep Sea, and music in its roar: I love not Man the less, but Nature more, From these our interviews, in which I steal From all I may be, or have been before, •To mingle with the Universe, and feel What I can ne'er express, yet cannot all conceal Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean— roll!
Page 162 - All hail! my own inspired Bard! In me thy native Muse regard! Nor longer mourn thy fate is hard, Thus poorly low! I come to give thee such reward, As we bestow...
Page 71 - I was not so presumptuous as to imagine that I could make verses like printed ones, composed by men who had Greek and Latin; but my girl sung a song which was said to be composed by a small country laird's son, on one of his father's maids, with whom he was in love; and I saw no reason why I might not rhyme as well as he; for excepting that he could shear sheep, and cast peats, his father living in the Moorlands, he had no more scholar craft than myself. Thus with me began love and poetry: which...
Page 70 - You know our country custom of coupling a man and woman together as partners in the labours of harvest. In my fifteenth autumn, my partner was a bewitching creature, a year younger than myself. My scarcity of English denies me the power of doing her justice in that language, but you know the Scotch idiom: she was a "bonnie, sweet, sonsie lass".
Page 202 - To leave the bonnie banks of Ayr. Farewell, old Coila's hills and dales, Her heathy moors and winding vales ; The scenes where wretched fancy roves, Pursuing past, unhappy loves! Farewell, my friends ! Farewell, my foes! My peace with these, my love with those— The bursting tears my heart declare, Farewell the bonnie banks of Ayr ! SONG.
Page 237 - They reel'd, they set, they cross'd, they cleekit, Till ilka carlin swat and reekit, And coost her duddies to the wark, And linket at it in her sark! Now Tam, O Tam, had thae been queans, A' plump and strapping in their teens! Their sarks, instead o' creeshie flannen, Been snaw-white seventeen hunder linen!
Page 231 - THOU lingering star, with lessening ray, That lov'st to greet the early morn, Again thou usherest in the day My Mary from my Soul was torn. O Mary ! dear, departed shade ! Where is thy place of blissful rest ? Seest thou thy lover lowly laid ? Hearst thou the groans that rend his breast?
Page 3 - Tis Flora's page: — In every place, In every season, fresh and fair, It opens with perennial grace, And blossoms everywhere. On waste and woodland, rock and plain, Its humble buds unheeded rise; The Rose has but a summer reign, — The Daisy never dies.
Page 203 - The gloomy night is gathering fast — when a letter from Dr. Blacklock to a friend of mine, overthrew all my schemes, by opening new prospects to my poetic ambition.
Bibliographic information
| Title | Rambles Through the Land of Burns |
| Author | Archibald R. Adamson |
| Publisher | Dunlop & Drennan, 1879 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 24 Feb 2006 |
| Length | 274 pages |
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