Highland Mary: Interesting Papers on an Interesting SubjectJohn Dawson Ross A. Gardner, 1894 - 147 pages |
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... Jean Armour had cast him off . Others turned from him , but MARY had faith in him , and was willing to take him " for better or for worse , " and to go with him to the West Indies ( whither he had now determined to sail ) , or to await ...
... Jean Armour had cast him off . Others turned from him , but MARY had faith in him , and was willing to take him " for better or for worse , " and to go with him to the West Indies ( whither he had now determined to sail ) , or to await ...
Page 48
... Jean Armour , though legally not bound to do so ? No ? Robert Burns's honour was not such as was measured out in the scales of legal responsibility , but in those of moral conviction . He would have married Jean Armour ; yes ! —but ...
... Jean Armour , though legally not bound to do so ? No ? Robert Burns's honour was not such as was measured out in the scales of legal responsibility , but in those of moral conviction . He would have married Jean Armour ; yes ! —but ...
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... Jean , Yet pearly bright was she ; She held my heart's keen passion - fire In awful chastity . A Grace of shining shapeliness- Her milk - white feet were bare ; A glimmering aureole seemed to rest Upon her golden hair . One crispèd lock ...
... Jean , Yet pearly bright was she ; She held my heart's keen passion - fire In awful chastity . A Grace of shining shapeliness- Her milk - white feet were bare ; A glimmering aureole seemed to rest Upon her golden hair . One crispèd lock ...
Page 59
... Jean . " Mary subsequently became a servant in the house of Burns's land- lord , Gavin Hamilton , a lawyer of Mauchline , who had early recognised the genius of the bard and admitted him to an intimate friendship despite his inferior ...
... Jean . " Mary subsequently became a servant in the house of Burns's land- lord , Gavin Hamilton , a lawyer of Mauchline , who had early recognised the genius of the bard and admitted him to an intimate friendship despite his inferior ...
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... Jean " Armour . The bard's niece , Miss Begg of Bridgeside , has told the writer that she often heard Burns's mother describe Mary as she saw her at Hamilton's ; she had a bonnie face and form , complexion of unusual fairness , soft ...
... Jean " Armour . The bard's niece , Miss Begg of Bridgeside , has told the writer that she often heard Burns's mother describe Mary as she saw her at Hamilton's ; she had a bonnie face and form , complexion of unusual fairness , soft ...
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ALLAN CUNNINGHAM Annie Ardrossan Ayrshire bard beautiful Bible blissful rest brother Burns and Mary Burns's Highland Mary Campbeltown Castle celebrated Coilsfield daughter dear departed shade DUNCAN MACGREGOR Dunoon faith farewell father Firth of Clyde flowers forswear thyself friends Gavin Hamilton genius girl Glasgow golden hair Grand GRAVE OF HIGHLAND hand heart Highland lassie Highland Mary HIGHLAND MARY'S GRAVE honour immortal Jean Armour John kirk letters lived Lord thine oaths lovers Macpherson Mary Campbell Mary in Heaven Mary's death Masonic Mauchline memory Montgomery Montgomery Castle monument Mossgiel mother never o'er passion Peter M'Pherson place of blissful plighted poems poet poet's possession relic Robert Burns Robert Weir Robertson romantic sang says Scotia's Scotland shalt not forswear shalt perform unto sister song stone stream sweet Tarbolton tender true songs Turnbull unto the Lord verse volume vows West Highlands West Indies wrote ye go
Popular passages
Page 96 - Howe'er it be, it seems to me, Tis only noble to be good. Kind hearts are more than coronets, And simple faith than Norman blood.
Page 42 - Again ye have heard that it hath been said by them of old time, Thou shalt not, forswear thyself, but shalt perform unto the Lord thine oaths...
Page 82 - O' my sweet Highland Mary. How sweetly bloom'd the gay green birk, How rich the hawthorn's blossom, As underneath their fragrant shade I clasp'd her to my bosom ! The golden hours on angel wings Flew o'er me and my dearie; For dear to me as light and life Was my sweet Highland Mary. Wi' mony a vow and lock'd embrace Our parting was fu' tender; And pledging aft to meet again, We tore oursels asunder; But, Oh!
Page 107 - I forget the hallowed grove, Where by the winding Ayr we met, To live one day of parting love ! Eternity will not efface Those records dear of transports past ; Thy image at our last embrace ; Ah ! little thought we 'twas our last ! Ayr gurgling kissed his pebbled shore, O'erhung with wild woods, thickening, green ; The fragrant birch, and hawthorn hoar, Twined amorous round the raptured scene.
Page 85 - Autumn following, she crossed the sea to meet me at Greenock : where she had scarce landed when she was seized with a malignant fever, which hurried my dear girl to the grave in a few days ! before I could even hear of her illness.
Page 86 - ... promised compliance ; but still remained where he was, striding up and down slowly, and contemplating the sky, which was singularly clear and starry. At last Mrs. Burns found him stretched on a mass of straw, with his eyes fixed on a beautiful planet ' that shone like another moon,' and prevailed on him to come in.
Page 9 - LANG hae thought, my youthfu' friend, A something to have sent you, Tho' it should serve nae ither end Than just a kind memento ; But how the subject theme may gang, Let time and chance determine ; Perhaps, it may turn out a sang, Perhaps, turn out a sermon.