Carlyle's Essay on Burns: With Selections from Burn's PoemsLongmans, Green and Company, 1896 - 122 pages |
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... Truth , and his hatred of insincerity and sham . Truth was to him a passion . In his writing he spared neither toil nor pains to secure the facts . His mission was to proclaim Truth , and nothing must stand in the way of that ...
... Truth , and his hatred of insincerity and sham . Truth was to him a passion . In his writing he spared neither toil nor pains to secure the facts . His mission was to proclaim Truth , and nothing must stand in the way of that ...
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... truth , when once he had formed an idea , he saw no other side to the question . " " In his personality , too , there was the same inconsistency . His appearance was striking and impressive , but at the same time uncouth . He had a most ...
... truth , when once he had formed an idea , he saw no other side to the question . " " In his personality , too , there was the same inconsistency . His appearance was striking and impressive , but at the same time uncouth . He had a most ...
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... truth as it is in man . A hint in the facts of any life may set him off on a new burst of homily , and though all the winds blow health , they do not all blow in the same direction . " Professor Morley is right . It is as a sermon on ...
... truth as it is in man . A hint in the facts of any life may set him off on a new burst of homily , and though all the winds blow health , they do not all blow in the same direction . " Professor Morley is right . It is as a sermon on ...
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... truth as to the right and wrong in his life , he was a true poet , and his songs have found their way to the hearts of men wherever the English tongue is spoken . SUGGESTIONS FOR TEACHERS No exact method of teaching any subject XXXIV ...
... truth as to the right and wrong in his life , he was a true poet , and his songs have found their way to the hearts of men wherever the English tongue is spoken . SUGGESTIONS FOR TEACHERS No exact method of teaching any subject XXXIV ...
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... truth that the best things in literature do not disclose themselves to the careless reader . Care should be taken to allow ample time for this preliminary reading . The boys and girls in our secondary schools are already worked hard ...
... truth that the best things in literature do not disclose themselves to the careless reader . Care should be taken to allow ample time for this preliminary reading . The boys and girls in our secondary schools are already worked hard ...
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Page 96 - THAT AND A' THAT" Is there, for honest Poverty, That hangs his head, and a' that! The coward slave, we pass him by, We dare be poor for a
Page 81 - But hark! a rap comes gently to the door; Jenny, wha kens the meaning o' the same, Tells how a neebor lad cam o'er the moor, To do some errands, and convoy her hame. The wily mother sees the conscious flame Sparkle in Jenny's e'e, and flush her cheek; Wi...
Page 97 - Guid faith he mauna fa' that. For a' that, and a' that, Their dignities, and a' that ; The pith o' sense, and pride o' worth, Are higher rank than a that. Then let us pray that come it may, As come it will for a' that ; That sense and worth, o'er a' the earth, May bear the gree, and a' that. For a
Page 45 - There was a strong expression of sense and shrewdness in all his lineaments; the eye alone, I think, indicated the poetical character and temperament. It was large, and of a dark cast, which glowed (I say literally glowed) when he spoke with feeling or interest. I never saw such another eye in a human head, though I have seen the most distinguished men of my time.
Page 92 - My heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not here : My heart's in the Highlands a-chasing the deer; Chasing the wild deer, and following the roe, My heart's in the Highlands, wherever I go.
Page 23 - Are we a piece of machinery, which, like the ^Eolian harp, passive, takes the impression of the passing accident ; or do these workings argue Something within us above the trodden clod ? I own myself partial to such proofs of those awful and important realities : a God that made all things, man's immaterial and immortal nature, and a world of weal or woe beyond death and the grave.
Page 84 - He, who stills the raven's clamorous nest, And decks the lily fair in flowery pride, Would, in the way His wisdom sees the best, For them and for their little ones provide; But, chiefly, in their hearts with grace divine preside.
Page 84 - ... 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. Compared with this, how poor religion's pride, In all the pomp of method, and of art, When men display to congregations wide Devotion's every grace, except the heart!
Page 97 - He looks and laughs at a' that. A prince can mak a belted knight, A marquis, duke, and a' that ; But an honest man's aboon his might, Guid faith he mauna fa' that ! For a
Page 96 - As fair art thou, my bonnie lass, So deep in luve am I; And I will luve thee still, my dear, Till a' the seas gang dry. Till a' the seas gang dry, my dear, And the rocks melt wi' the sun; And I will luve thee still, my dear, While the sands o