The Works of Professor Wilson of the University of Edinburgh: Essays critical and imaginativeW. Blackwood, 1857 |
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Page 47
... Ballads , " with all the innocent brightness of the new - born day , " had never charmed the meditative heart . His " Churchyard among the Moun- tains " had never taught men how to live and how to die . These are men who have descended ...
... Ballads , " with all the innocent brightness of the new - born day , " had never charmed the meditative heart . His " Churchyard among the Moun- tains " had never taught men how to live and how to die . These are men who have descended ...
Page 85
... ballad is a very beautiful one , and throughout how true to nature ! It is alive all over Scotland ; that other is dead , or with suspended animation ; not because " The Soldier's Return " is a happy , and " Will and Jean " a miserable ...
... ballad is a very beautiful one , and throughout how true to nature ! It is alive all over Scotland ; that other is dead , or with suspended animation ; not because " The Soldier's Return " is a happy , and " Will and Jean " a miserable ...
Page 96
... ballads , which show them to be the work of a masterly hand : and it has often given me many a heartache to reflect , that such glorious old bards - bards who very probably owed all their talents to native genius , yet have described ...
... ballads , which show them to be the work of a masterly hand : and it has often given me many a heartache to reflect , that such glorious old bards - bards who very probably owed all their talents to native genius , yet have described ...
Page 97
... ballad its birth , heroic yet with dying falls , for the singer wept , even as his heart burned within him , over the princely head prostrated with all its plumes , haply near the lowly woodsman , whose horn had often startled the deer ...
... ballad its birth , heroic yet with dying falls , for the singer wept , even as his heart burned within him , over the princely head prostrated with all its plumes , haply near the lowly woodsman , whose horn had often startled the deer ...
Page 98
... ballad pathetic on the woes of married life , and all the ills that our flesh is heir to . " Fair , Rocking , and Harvest - home , and a hundred rural festivals , are for ever giving wings to the flight of the circling year ; or how ...
... ballad pathetic on the woes of married life , and all the ills that our flesh is heir to . " Fair , Rocking , and Harvest - home , and a hundred rural festivals , are for ever giving wings to the flight of the circling year ; or how ...
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Allan Cunningham Ambleside auld ballad bard beautiful believe breast breath Burns's called character charm Christabel clouds Coleridge Colonsay Cottar's Saturday Night dear death delight dream Dumfries earth Ellisland evil eyes face fancy father fear feel felt frae gauger genius George Thomson Grasmere hand happy head hear heard heart heaven Hector Macneil honour hope hour human imagination inspired knew labour lady light living look Mauchline mind moral morning Mossgiel nature never noble o'er once passion perhaps pity poem poet poet's poetical poetry poor pride racter Robert Burns round Scotland Scots wha hae Scottish seems Shanter Shuffler sing smile song soul spirit strong sweet tears tell tender thee things Thomson thou thought tion truth verse virtue voice walk whole wife wild William Burnes wonder words youth