The Works of Robert Burns: General correspondence, including pieces of miscellaneous poetryT. Cadell and W. Davies, 1806 |
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... human life , LVI . To R. GRAHAM , of Fintry , Esq . A petition in verse for a situation in the Excise , · LVII . To Mr. P. HILL . 1st Oct. 1788. Cri- ticism on a poem , entitled , " An Ad- dress to Lochlomond , " LVIII . To Mrs. DUNLOP ...
... human life , LVI . To R. GRAHAM , of Fintry , Esq . A petition in verse for a situation in the Excise , · LVII . To Mr. P. HILL . 1st Oct. 1788. Cri- ticism on a poem , entitled , " An Ad- dress to Lochlomond , " LVIII . To Mrs. DUNLOP ...
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... human nature in a differ- ent light from any thing I have seen before . In short , the joy of my heart is to " study men , their manners , and their ways ; " and for this darling subject , I cheerfully sacrifice every other ...
... human nature in a differ- ent light from any thing I have seen before . In short , the joy of my heart is to " study men , their manners , and their ways ; " and for this darling subject , I cheerfully sacrifice every other ...
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... human race— he " who can soar above this little scene of things , " can he descend to mind the paltry con- cerns about which the terræfilial race fret and fume , and vex themselves ? O how the glorious triumph swells my heart ! I forget ...
... human race— he " who can soar above this little scene of things , " can he descend to mind the paltry con- cerns about which the terræfilial race fret and fume , and vex themselves ? O how the glorious triumph swells my heart ! I forget ...
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... human nature , to see how a plough- man thinks and feels , under the pressure of love , ambition , anxiety , grief , with the like cares and passions , which , however diversified by the modes and manners of life , operate pretty much ...
... human nature , to see how a plough- man thinks and feels , under the pressure of love , ambition , anxiety , grief , with the like cares and passions , which , however diversified by the modes and manners of life , operate pretty much ...
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... human bosom . Any ordinary pitch of fortitude may bear up tolerably well under those calamities , in the procurement of which we ourselves have had no hand ; but when our own follies , or crimes , have made us miserable and wretched ...
... human bosom . Any ordinary pitch of fortitude may bear up tolerably well under those calamities , in the procurement of which we ourselves have had no hand ; but when our own follies , or crimes , have made us miserable and wretched ...
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Page 63 - No sculptured marble here, nor pompous lay, 'No storied urn nor animated bust;' This simple stone directs pale Scotia's way To pour her sorrows o'er her poet's dust.
Page 253 - 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 197 - I have some favourite flowers in spring, among which are the mountain-daisy, the hare-bell, the fox-glove, the wild-brier rose, the budding birch, and the hoary hawthorn, that I view and hang over with particular delight.
Page 447 - ... disfigure them, are yet, I am convinced, original and component parts of the human soul ; those senses of the mind, if I may be allowed the expression, which connect us with, and link us to, those awful obscure realities — an allpowerful, and equally beneficent God ; and a world to come, beyond death and the grave.
Page 196 - Bagdat in order to pass the rest of the day in meditation and prayer. As 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 11 - 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 190 - Go fetch to me a pint o' wine, And 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 319 - As cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country.
Page 329 - Coffins stood round, like open presses, That shaw'd the dead in their last dresses; And, by some devilish...
Page 448 - 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, With light and heat refulgent. Then THY sun...