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... beautiful . They show how powerfully his boyish fancy had been affected by the old rural minstrelsy 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 minstrelsy 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 sor- row , and where happiness shall be in proportion to the capacity of happiness . " - Life , p . 102 . Unhappily for himself and for the ...
... beautiful representations of a better world , where there is neither thirst , nor hunger , nor sor- row , and where happiness shall be in proportion to the capacity of happiness . " - Life , p . 102 . Unhappily for himself and for the ...
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... beautiful in rural life . " * This is very good so far as it goes ; but who ever disputed the exquisite graphic truth , so far as it goes , of the poem to which the critic refers ? The question remains as it stood ; is there then ...
... beautiful in rural life . " * This is very good so far as it goes ; but who ever disputed the exquisite graphic truth , so far as it goes , of the poem to which the critic refers ? The question remains as it stood ; is there then ...
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... beautiful seat self and rustic compeers around him , in his and their native language . Though a rhymer from his earliest years , at least from the earliest impulse of the softer passions , it was not till very lately that the applause ...
... beautiful seat self and rustic compeers around him , in his and their native language . Though a rhymer from his earliest years , at least from the earliest impulse of the softer passions , it was not till very lately that the applause ...
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... beautiful and accomplished lady . Burns presented her on this occasion with some MSS . songs ; and among the rest , with one in which her own charms were ce- lebrated in that warm strain of compliment which our poet seems to have all ...
... beautiful and accomplished lady . Burns presented her on this occasion with some MSS . songs ; and among the rest , with one in which her own charms were ce- lebrated in that warm strain of compliment which our poet seems to have all ...
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Page 258 - He is a man speaking to men: a man, it is true, endowed with more lively sensibility, more enthusiasm and tenderness, who has a greater knowledge of human nature, and a more comprehensive soul, than are supposed to be common among mankind; a man pleased with his own passions, and volitions, and who rejoices more than other men in the spirit of life that is in him; delighting to contemplate similar volitions and passions as manifested in the goings-on of the Universe, and habitually impelled to create...
Page 187 - 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.
Page 114 - 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 297 - O'er a' the ills o' life victorious! But pleasures are like poppies spread: You seize the...
Page 264 - 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.
Page 24 - I was not so presumptuous as to imagine that I could make verses like printed ones, composed by men who had Greek and Latin; but my girl sung a song, which was said to be composed by a small country laird's son, on one of his father's maids, with whom he was in love ! and I saw no reason why I might not rhyme as well as he...
Page 81 - 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 187 - On the fifth day of the moon, which, according to the custom of my forefathers, I always keep holy, after having washed myself and offered up my morning devotions, I ascended the high hills of Bagdat in order to pass the rest of the day in meditation and prayer.
Page 80 - Ye banks and braes and streams around The castle o' Montgomery, Green be your woods, and fair your flowers, Your waters never drumlie ! There simmer first unfauld her robes, And there the langest tarry ; For there I took the last fareweel O
Page 188 - I have some favourite flowers in spring, among which are the mountain-daisy, the hare-bell, the fox-glove, the wild-brier rose, the budding birch, and the hoary hawthorn, that I view and hang over with particular delight.