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... ACQUAINTANCE , I WAS equally surprised and pleased at your letter ; though I dare say you will think by my delay ... acquainted , in the pride of despising old women's stories , ventured in " the daring path Spi- nosa trod ; " but ...
... ACQUAINTANCE , I WAS equally surprised and pleased at your letter ; though I dare say you will think by my delay ... acquainted , in the pride of despising old women's stories , ventured in " the daring path Spi- nosa trod ; " but ...
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... acquaintance and friendship which I have , or think I have in life , I have felt along the lines and , d - n them ! they are almost all of them of such frail contexture , that I am sure they would not stand the breath of the least ...
... acquaintance and friendship which I have , or think I have in life , I have felt along the lines and , d - n them ! they are almost all of them of such frail contexture , that I am sure they would not stand the breath of the least ...
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... acquainted , I was delighted with the native frankness of her manner , and the sterling sense of her observation . Of Charlotte , I cannot speak in common terms of admiration : she is not only beauti- ful , but lovely . Her form is ...
... acquainted , I was delighted with the native frankness of her manner , and the sterling sense of her observation . Of Charlotte , I cannot speak in common terms of admiration : she is not only beauti- ful , but lovely . Her form is ...
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... acquaintances , and all of them my firm . friends . No. XIX . To Miss M- N. Saturday Noon , No. 2 , St. James's Sqr . Newton , Edinburgh . HERE have I sat , my Dear Madam , in the stony attitude of perplexed study for fifteen vexatious ...
... acquaintances , and all of them my firm . friends . No. XIX . To Miss M- N. Saturday Noon , No. 2 , St. James's Sqr . Newton , Edinburgh . HERE have I sat , my Dear Madam , in the stony attitude of perplexed study for fifteen vexatious ...
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... acquaintances will allow all I have said . Besides I have complimented you chiefly , almost solely , on your mental charms . Shall I be plain with you ? I will ; so look to it . Per- sonal attractions , madam , you have much above par ...
... acquaintances will allow all I have said . Besides I have complimented you chiefly , almost solely , on your mental charms . Shall I be plain with you ? I will ; so look to it . Per- sonal attractions , madam , you have much above par ...
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acquaintance Allan Water amang Auld Ayrshire ballad beautiful Blacklock bonie lass bonnie bosom Burns Burns's called charms compliments composed composition copy Currie's Dalswinton DEAR FRIEND DEAR SIR Dugald Stewart Dumfries e'en Edinburgh Ellisland excise Farewel feelings frae Gavin Hamilton give gude Gypsie Laddie hand happy heart Highland Highland Laddie honest honor kind kirk Laddie lady lassie letter Lord mair Mauchline maun mind misfortune morning muse ne'er never night noble O'er the moor old song pleasure poem poet poetic poor Ragwort rantin rhyme river Doon ROBERT BURNS Roslin Castle Scotland Scots Scottish sentiments shew sing soul sparklin stanza sweet tell thee thing thou thought tion tune verses weel wife wild WILLIAM BURNS wish words write young
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Page 266 - Go fetch to me a pint o' wine, An' fill it in a silver tassie ; That I may drink before I go A service to my bonnie lassie : The boat rocks at the pier o...
Page 15 - Thou minds me o' the happy days When my fause Luve was true. Thou'll break my heart, thou bonnie bird That sings beside thy mate; For sae I sat, and sae I sang, And wist na o' my fate. Aft hae I roved by bonnie Doon To see the woodbine twine, And ilka bird sang o' its love; And sae did I o
Page 280 - I'll wage thee! Who shall say that Fortune grieves him While the star of hope she leaves him? Me, nae cheerfu' twinkle lights me, Dark despair around benights me. I'll ne'er blame my partial fancy; Naething could resist my Nancy; But to see her was to love her, Love but her, and love for ever.
Page 215 - I have wander'd in those paths Of life I ought to shun, As something loudly, in my breast, Remonstrates I have done; Thou know'st that thou hast formed me With passions wild and strong ; And list'ning to their witching voice Has often led me wrong.
Page 117 - Nevertheless leave the stump of his roots in the earth, even with a band of iron and brass, in the tender grass of the field, and let it be wet with the dew of heaven, and let his portion be with the beasts in the grass of the earth.
Page 215 - 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,
Page 207 - I believe, may be partly owing to my misfortunes giving my mind a melancholy cast : but there is something even in the ' Mighty tempest, and the hoary waste, Abrupt, and deep stretch'd o'er the buried earth," which raises the mind to a serious sublimity favourable to every thing great and noble.
Page 93 - I can tell him that it is on such individuals as I, that a nation has to rest ; both for the hand of support, and the eye of intelligence.
Page 51 - Nor have I any cause to repent it. If I have not got polite tattle, modish manners, and fashionable dress, I am not sickened and disgusted with the multiform curse of boarding-school affectation; and I have got the handsomest figure, the sweetest temper, the soundest constitution, and the kindest heart in the country.
Page 213 - But gie me a canny hour at e'en, My arms about my dearie, O ; An' warly cares, an' warly men, May a