All about BurnsJ.S. Ogilvie Publishing Company, 1896 - 178 pages |
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... story for gloating over his frailties and neglecting his many virtues . She quotes the late Lord Young as having , many years ago , asked the guests at a Burns dinner if it were not time to let Burns's private life alone and speak of ...
... story for gloating over his frailties and neglecting his many virtues . She quotes the late Lord Young as having , many years ago , asked the guests at a Burns dinner if it were not time to let Burns's private life alone and speak of ...
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... story of his career , was given to the world in 1800 by that leal - hearted Scot , Dr. Currie . It was not a perfect work by any means . The biographer and edi- tor lived too near the poet's own time to be perfectly out- spoken in many ...
... story of his career , was given to the world in 1800 by that leal - hearted Scot , Dr. Currie . It was not a perfect work by any means . The biographer and edi- tor lived too near the poet's own time to be perfectly out- spoken in many ...
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... stories are to be exaggerated , and , besides , they bore no part in making the fame of Burns . When tales of such debauch- eries are retailed we cannot help thinking of an earlier time in the poet's career when he was accused of riot ...
... stories are to be exaggerated , and , besides , they bore no part in making the fame of Burns . When tales of such debauch- eries are retailed we cannot help thinking of an earlier time in the poet's career when he was accused of riot ...
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... story of they that tarry long at the wine " was realized in his case as in countless others . But at that late period its insidious advances were unregarded , unnoticed , in the gloom which ill - health , perhaps disappointed ambition ...
... story of they that tarry long at the wine " was realized in his case as in countless others . But at that late period its insidious advances were unregarded , unnoticed , in the gloom which ill - health , perhaps disappointed ambition ...
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... story of the life of William Burnes is a sad one , about the saddest which was ever made known by liter- ary history ; yet it brings before us one of the truest types of nature's nobility , one of the most precious examples of the ...
... story of the life of William Burnes is a sad one , about the saddest which was ever made known by liter- ary history ; yet it brings before us one of the truest types of nature's nobility , one of the most precious examples of the ...
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Page 65 - Then kneeling down, to Heaven's eternal King, The saint, the father, and the husband prays: Hope "springs exulting on triumphant wing," That thus they all shall meet in future days, There ever bask in uncreated rays, No more to sigh, or shed the bitter tear, Together hymning their Creator's praise. In such society, yet still more dear; While circling time moves round in an eternal sphere.
Page 77 - The sire turns o'er, wi' patriarchal grace, The big ha' Bible, ance his father's pride. His bonnet rev'rently is laid aside, His lyart haffets wearing thin an' bare ; Those strains that once did sweet in Zion glide, He wales a portion with judicious care ; And " Let us worship God !
Page 128 - Cold on Canadian hills, or Minden's plain, Perhaps that mother wept her soldier slain ; Bent o'er her babe, her eye dissolved in dew, The big drops mingling with the milk he drew Gave the sad presage of his future years, The child of misery baptized in tears.
Page 128 - ... enough to be much interested in his poetry, and would have given the world to know him; but I had very little acquaintance with any literary people, and still less with the gentry of the west country, the two sets that he most frequented. Mr Thomas Grierson was at that time a clerk of my father's. He knew Burns, and promised to ask him to his lodgings to dinner, but had no opportunity to keep his word, otherwise I might have seen more of this distinguished man.
Page 30 - It's no in makin muckle mair: It's no in books ; it's no in lear, To make us truly blest : If Happiness hae not her seat And centre in the breast, We may be wise, or rich, or great, But never can be blest : Nae treasures, nor pleasures, Could make us happy lang; The heart ay's the part ay, That makes us right or wrang.
Page 23 - The dance gaed thro' the lighted ha', To thee my fancy took its wing, I sat, but neither heard nor saw: Tho' this was fair, and that was braw, And yon the toast of a' the town, I sigh'd and said amang them a'; — "Ye are na Mary Morison!
Page 29 - It's hardly in a body's pow'r, To keep, at times, frae being sour, To see how things are shar'd ; How best o...
Page 18 - Then kneeling down to Heaven's Eternal King The saint, the father, and the husband prays : Hope 'springs exulting on triumphant wing' That thus they all shall meet in future days : There ever bask in uncreated rays, No more to sigh, or shed the bitter tear, Together hymning their Creator's praise, In such society, yet still more dear ; While circling Time moves round in an eternal sphere.
Page 160 - With the ready trick and fable, Round we wander all the day; And at night, in barn or stable, Hug our doxies on the hay.
Page 25 - I am quite transported at the thought that ere long, perhaps very soon, I shall bid an eternal adieu to all the pains, and...