The land of Burns, a series of landscapes and portraits, the landscapes from paintings by D.O. Hill, the literary department by prof. Wilson and R. Chambers1840 |
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... recollection of forty years . " His person was robust and strong ; his manners rustic , not clownish ; a sort of dignified plain- ness and simplicity , which received part of its effect , perhaps , from one's knowledge of his ...
... recollection of forty years . " His person was robust and strong ; his manners rustic , not clownish ; a sort of dignified plain- ness and simplicity , which received part of its effect , perhaps , from one's knowledge of his ...
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... recollection of the late Mr David Sillar , the poet's early friend . * The six months he spent in this town form the era at which a serious change was for the first time made in Burns's early habits of sobriety and decorum . He here ...
... recollection of the late Mr David Sillar , the poet's early friend . * The six months he spent in this town form the era at which a serious change was for the first time made in Burns's early habits of sobriety and decorum . He here ...
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... recollection of his country's independence and liberties . " Independent of my enthusiasm as a Scotsman , " he says , in a letter enclosing Bruce's address to the Earl of Buchan , “ I have rarely met with anything in history which ...
... recollection of his country's independence and liberties . " Independent of my enthusiasm as a Scotsman , " he says , in a letter enclosing Bruce's address to the Earl of Buchan , “ I have rarely met with anything in history which ...
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... recollection of a surviving friend of the lady , the medium through which they became acquainted was a certain Peggy Orr , who had the charge of Mrs Stewart's children . It is said that , seeing some letters and poems of Burns in that ...
... recollection of a surviving friend of the lady , the medium through which they became acquainted was a certain Peggy Orr , who had the charge of Mrs Stewart's children . It is said that , seeing some letters and poems of Burns in that ...
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... recollections , some of which had been very faithfully impressed on the poet's mind . At least , we are led to this conclusion , as the only one by which we can reconcile the story with an extended detail of circumstances which has been ...
... recollections , some of which had been very faithfully impressed on the poet's mind . At least , we are led to this conclusion , as the only one by which we can reconcile the story with an extended detail of circumstances which has been ...
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Page 30 - Far marked with the courses of clear winding rills; There daily I wander as noon rises high, My flocks and my Mary's sweet cot in my eye. . How pleasant thy banks and green valleys below, Where wild in the woodlands the primroses blow; There oft as mild Evening weeps over the lea, The sweet-scented birk shades my Mary and me.
Page 80 - Mary! dear departed shade! Where is thy place of blissful rest? See'st thou thy lover lowly laid? Hear'st thou the groans that rend his breast?
Page 81 - Time but the impression deeper makes, As streams their channels deeper wear. My Mary! dear, departed shade! Where Is thy place of blissful rest?
Page 67 - Mr. Robert Burns was some time in the parish of Tarbolton prior to my acquaintance with him. His social disposition easily procured him acquaintance ; but a certain satirical seasoning, with which he and all poetical geniuses are in some degree influenced, while it set the rustic circle in a roar, was not unaccompanied by its kindred attendant, suspicious fear.
Page 47 - Tam wi' furious ettle; But little wist she Maggie's mettle — Ae spring brought off her master hale, But left behind her ain gray tail : The carlin caught her by the rump, And left poor Maggie scarce a stump. Now, wha this tale o...
Page 80 - O pale, pale now, those rosy lips, I aft hae kiss'd sae fondly ! And closed for aye the sparkling glance That dwelt on me sae kindly : And mouldering now in silent dust That heart that lo'ed me dearly ! But still within my bosom's core Shall live my Highland Mary.