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... beautiful . They show how powerfully his boyish fancy had been affected by the old rural min- strelsy of his own country , and how easily his native taste caught the secret of its charm . The truth and simplicity of nature breathe in ...
... beautiful . They show how powerfully his boyish fancy had been affected by the old rural min- strelsy of his own country , and how easily his native taste caught the secret of its charm . The truth and simplicity of nature breathe in ...
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... beautiful representations of a better world , where there is neither thirst , nor hunger , nor sorrow , and where happiness shall be in proportion to the capacity of happi- ness . " Unhappily for himself and for the world , it was not ...
... beautiful representations of a better world , where there is neither thirst , nor hunger , nor sorrow , and where happiness shall be in proportion to the capacity of happi- ness . " Unhappily for himself and for the world , it was not ...
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... beautiful in rural life . ” 1 This is very good so far as it goes ; but who ever disputed the exquisite graphic truth of the poem to which the critic refers ? The question remains as it stood ; is there then nothing besides a strange ...
... beautiful in rural life . ” 1 This is very good so far as it goes ; but who ever disputed the exquisite graphic truth of the poem to which the critic refers ? The question remains as it stood ; is there then nothing besides a strange ...
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... beautiful seat of Catrine , began to notice him with much fancy , amid the toil and fatigues of a laborious life ; to transcribe the various feelings , the loves , the griefs , the hopes , the fears , in his own breast ; to find some ...
... beautiful seat of Catrine , began to notice him with much fancy , amid the toil and fatigues of a laborious life ; to transcribe the various feelings , the loves , the griefs , the hopes , the fears , in his own breast ; to find some ...
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... beautiful and accom- plished lady . ' Burns presented her on this occasion with 1 [ The widow of Burns stumbled at this polite epithet applied by the biographer to the very plain - looking old lady thus complimented . Mr. McDiarmid was ...
... beautiful and accom- plished lady . ' Burns presented her on this occasion with 1 [ The widow of Burns stumbled at this polite epithet applied by the biographer to the very plain - looking old lady thus complimented . Mr. McDiarmid was ...
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2nd Edition A. H. Bullen acquaintance addressed admiration afterwards Allan Cunningham appears auld Ayrshire bard beautiful Blair brother Burns's character circumstances composed correspondence Cromek Currie Currie's dear death delight Dugald Stewart Dumfries Dunlop early Edinburgh Elliesland English Essays Excise farm father favour favourite feelings Gavin Hamilton genius Gilbert Burns Greenock hand heart History honour Illustrations Irvine James Jean Jenny Geddes John kind labours lady lated letter lived Lockhart manners Mary Mauchline Memoir mind Mossgiel Muses nature never occasion parish passion perhaps period person pleasure poems poet poet's poetical poetry political Portraits printed Prose published reader residence revised Robert Burns Robert Chambers says scenes Scotch Scotland Scottish sentiments Shanter Sir Walter Scott society song spirit stanzas Stewart talents Tarbolton Thomson thought tion Trans Translated verses vols Walker William Burnes writing young
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Page 194 - 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.
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Page 274 - 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.
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Page 190 - O Mary! dear departed shade! Where is thy place of blissful rest? See'st thou thy lover lowly laid? Hear'st thou the groans that rend his breast?