The Works of Robert Burns;: General correspondance; including pieces of miscellaneous poetryT. Cadell and W. Davies, Strand; and A. Constable and Company, Manners and Miller, Fairbairn and Anderson, A. Black, W. and C. Tait, at Edinburgh; and G. Clark, at Aberdeen., 1820 - Scotland |
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... ballad on her , inclosing that ballad , LXIV . From Mr. G. BURNS . 1st Jan. Reflections suggested by the day , · • 198 1789. ! 201 . 202 LXV . To Mrs. DUNLOP . 1st Jan. Reflections suggested by the day , No. Page LXVI . To Dr. MooRe ...
... ballad on her , inclosing that ballad , LXIV . From Mr. G. BURNS . 1st Jan. Reflections suggested by the day , · • 198 1789. ! 201 . 202 LXV . To Mrs. DUNLOP . 1st Jan. Reflections suggested by the day , No. Page LXVI . To Dr. MooRe ...
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... . Under a fictitious sig- nature , inclosing a ballad , 1790 or 1791 , XCIII . To Mr. G. BURNS . 11th Jan. 1790. With a prologue , spoken 284 289 on the Dumfries theatre , · 293 No. XCIV . Page To Mrs. DUNLOP . 25th Jan. CONTENTS . XV.
... . Under a fictitious sig- nature , inclosing a ballad , 1790 or 1791 , XCIII . To Mr. G. BURNS . 11th Jan. 1790. With a prologue , spoken 284 289 on the Dumfries theatre , · 293 No. XCIV . Page To Mrs. DUNLOP . 25th Jan. CONTENTS . XV.
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... ballads , which shew them to be the work of a masterly hand ; and it has often given me many a heart - ache to reflect that such glorious old bards - bards who very probably owed all their talents to native genius ; yet have described ...
... ballads , which shew them to be the work of a masterly hand ; and it has often given me many a heart - ache to reflect that such glorious old bards - bards who very probably owed all their talents to native genius ; yet have described ...
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... Ballad - singers , & c . & c . & c . & c . & c . male and female - We have discovered a certain * * * , nefarious , abominable , and wicked SONG or BALLAD , a copy whereof WE have here inclosed ; Our WILL THEREFORE is , that YE pitch ...
... Ballad - singers , & c . & c . & c . & c . & c . male and female - We have discovered a certain * * * , nefarious , abominable , and wicked SONG or BALLAD , a copy whereof WE have here inclosed ; Our WILL THEREFORE is , that YE pitch ...
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... GIVEN at MAUCHLINE this twentieth day of November , Anno Domini one thousand seven hundred and eighty - six . * GOD SAVE THE BARD ! * Inclosed was the ballad , probably Holy Willie's prayer . E. No. No. IX . DR . BLACKLOCK то The Rev. MR ...
... GIVEN at MAUCHLINE this twentieth day of November , Anno Domini one thousand seven hundred and eighty - six . * GOD SAVE THE BARD ! * Inclosed was the ballad , probably Holy Willie's prayer . E. No. No. IX . DR . BLACKLOCK то The Rev. MR ...
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Page 197 - An' fill it in a silver tassie ; That I may drink before I go A service to my bonnie lassie : The boat rocks at the pier o...
Page 68 - No sculptur'd marble here, nor pompous lay, " No storied urn nor animated bust," This simple stone directs pale Scotia's way To pour her sorrows o'er her poet's dust.
Page 203 - 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 13 - I believe, may be partly owing to my misfortunes giving my mind a melancholy cast : but there is something even in the ' Mighty tempest, and the hoary waste, Abrupt, and deep stretch'd o'er the buried earth," which raises the mind to a serious sublimity favourable to every thing great and noble.
Page 329 - As cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country.
Page 196 - Go fetch to me a pint o' wine, And fill it in a silver tassie; That I may drink before I go A service to my bonnie lassie...
Page 76 - I have no dearer aim than to have it in my power, unplagued with the routine of business, for which, heaven knows ! I am unfit enough, to make leisurely pilgrimages through Caledonia ; to sit on the fields of her battles ; to wander on the romantic banks of her rivers ; and to muse by the stately towers or venerable ruins, once the honoured abodes of her heroes.
Page 204 - I never hear the loud solitary whistle of the curlew in a summer noon, or the wild mixing cadence of a troop of gray plover in an autumnal morning, without feeling an elevation of soul like the enthusiasm of devotion or poetry.
Page 459 - Still there are two great pillars that bear us up, amid the wreck of misfortune and misery. The ONE is composed of the different modifications of a certain noble, stubborn something in man, known by the names of courage, fortitude, magnanimity.
Page 48 - For my part, my first ambition was, and still my strongest wish is, to please my compeers, the rustic inmates of the hamlet, while ever-changing language and manners shall allow me to be relished and understood.