The poetical works of Robert Burns. [With] (Memoir of Burns, by sir H. Nicolas).1866 |
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... never been printed ; while some of those that had been already pub- lished afford important variations , and occasion- ally supply even entire stanzas . The possession of these valuable manuscripts led to the resolution of giving , for ...
... never been printed ; while some of those that had been already pub- lished afford important variations , and occasion- ally supply even entire stanzas . The possession of these valuable manuscripts led to the resolution of giving , for ...
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... never have guessed that Robert had a propensity of that kind . " Of himself , at that period , Burns said— “ I was by no means a favourite with any body . I was a good deal noted for a retentive memory , a stub- born , sturdy something ...
... never have guessed that Robert had a propensity of that kind . " Of himself , at that period , Burns said— “ I was by no means a favourite with any body . I was a good deal noted for a retentive memory , a stub- born , sturdy something ...
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... economy , or the path of little chicaning bargain- making . The first is so contracted an aperture , I could never squeeze myself into it ; —the last I always hated - there was contamination in the very MEMOIR OF BURNS . XXV.
... economy , or the path of little chicaning bargain- making . The first is so contracted an aperture , I could never squeeze myself into it ; —the last I always hated - there was contamination in the very MEMOIR OF BURNS . XXV.
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... never cared farther for my labours than while I was in actual exercise , I spent the even- ings in the way after my own heart . A country lad seldom carries on a love adventure without an assisting confidant . I possessed a curiosity ...
... never cared farther for my labours than while I was in actual exercise , I spent the even- ings in the way after my own heart . A country lad seldom carries on a love adventure without an assisting confidant . I possessed a curiosity ...
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... never indeed knew that he fainted , sunk , and died away ; ' but the agitations of his mind and body exceeded anything of the kind I ever knew in real life . He had always a parti- cular jealousy of people who were richer than himself ...
... never indeed knew that he fainted , sunk , and died away ; ' but the agitations of his mind and body exceeded anything of the kind I ever knew in real life . He had always a parti- cular jealousy of people who were richer than himself ...
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Page 151 - With Amalek's ungracious progeny; Or how the royal bard did groaning lie Beneath the stroke of Heaven's avenging ire; Or Job's pathetic plaint and wailing cry; Or rapt Isaiah's wild, seraphic fire; Or other holy seers that tune the sacred lyre.
Page 150 - The cheerfu' supper done, wi' serious face, They, round the ingle, form a circle wide ; The sire turns o'er, wi...
Page 152 - From scenes like these, old Scotia's grandeur springs, That makes her lov'd at home, rever'd abroad: Princes and lords are but the breath of kings, 'An honest man's the noblest work of God'; And certes, in fair Virtue's heavenly road, The cottage leaves the palace far behind; What is a lordling's pomp?
Page 151 - Then kneeling down to heaven's Eternal King, The saint, the father, and the husband prays : Hope " springs exulting on triumphant wing," 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.
Page 151 - Perhaps the Christian volume is the theme: How guiltless blood for guilty man was shed; How He Who bore in Heaven the second name Had not on earth whereon to lay His head; How...
Page 127 - An' cranreuch cauld ! But Mousie, thou art no thy lane, In proving foresight may be vain; The best laid schemes o' mice an' men Gang aft agley, An' lea'e us nought but grief an
Page 180 - O wad some Pow'r the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us ! It wad frae monie a blunder free us And foolish notion : What airs in dress an
Page 186 - A set o' dull conceited hashes Confuse their brains in college classes ! They gang in stirks, and come out asses, Plain truth to speak; An' syne they think to climb Parnassus By dint o
Page 148 - An' each for other's weelfare kindly spiers: The social hours, swift-wing'd, unnoticed fleet; Each tells the uncos that he sees or hears. The parents, partial, eye their hopeful years; Anticipation forward points the view; The mother, wi' her needle an' her sheers, Gars auld claes look amaist as weel's the new; The father mixes a' wi
Page 91 - He alone , Decidedly can try us, He knows each chord — its various tone, Each spring — its various bias: Then at the balance let's be mute, We never can adjust it; What's done we partly may compute, But know not what's resisted.