The prose works of Robert BurnsJ. Marshall, 1816 - 705 pages |
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... fate of a new edi tion of his Poems in Edinburgh . A copy of this letter was sent by Mr. Lawrie to Mr. G. Hamilton , and by him communi- cated to Burns , among whose papers it was found . No. 12 . FROM SIR JOHN WHITEFOORD . SIR , ( ) 34 )
... fate of a new edi tion of his Poems in Edinburgh . A copy of this letter was sent by Mr. Lawrie to Mr. G. Hamilton , and by him communi- cated to Burns , among whose papers it was found . No. 12 . FROM SIR JOHN WHITEFOORD . SIR , ( ) 34 )
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... Fate had cast my station in the veriest shades of life ; but never did a heart pant more ardently , that mine , to be distinguished : though , till very lately , I looked in vain on every side for a ray of light . It is easy then to ...
... Fate had cast my station in the veriest shades of life ; but never did a heart pant more ardently , that mine , to be distinguished : though , till very lately , I looked in vain on every side for a ray of light . It is easy then to ...
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... fate is here in emblem shewn , " He ask'd for bread , and he received a stone . " It is I believe upon poor Butler's tomb that this is written . But how many brothers of Parnassus , as well as poor Butler and poor Fer- gusson , have ...
... fate is here in emblem shewn , " He ask'd for bread , and he received a stone . " It is I believe upon poor Butler's tomb that this is written . But how many brothers of Parnassus , as well as poor Butler and poor Fer- gusson , have ...
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... fate of poor Fergusson , **** * suppose Quærenda pecunia primum est , virtus post nummos , is a good maxim to thrive by : you seemed to despise it while in this country , but probably some philosopher in Edinburgh has taught you better ...
... fate of poor Fergusson , **** * suppose Quærenda pecunia primum est , virtus post nummos , is a good maxim to thrive by : you seemed to despise it while in this country , but probably some philosopher in Edinburgh has taught you better ...
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... fate should be cast with the Psalmist's sparrow , " watch alone on the house tops . " - Oh , the pity ! 66 to There are few of the sore evils under the sun , give me more uneasiness and chagrin , than the comparison how a man of genius ...
... fate should be cast with the Psalmist's sparrow , " watch alone on the house tops . " - Oh , the pity ! 66 to There are few of the sore evils under the sun , give me more uneasiness and chagrin , than the comparison how a man of genius ...
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Page 20 - ... mortal, I have various sources of pleasure and enjoyment, which are, in a manner, peculiar to myself, or some here and there such other outof-the-way person. Such is the peculiar pleasure I take in the season of WINTER, more than the rest of the year. This, 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...
Page 159 - 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.
Page 496 - Her pure and eloquent blood Spoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought, That one might almost say her body thought.
Page 100 - The gloomy night is gathering fast — when a letter from Dr. Blacklock to a friend of mine, overthrew all my schemes, by opening new prospects to my poetic ambition.
Page 84 - This cultivated the latent seeds of poetry ; but had so strong an effect on my imagination, that to this hour, in my nocturnal rambles, I sometimes keep a sharp look-out in suspicious places; and though nobody can be more sceptical than I am in such matters, yet it often takes an effort of philosophy to shake off these idle terrorS.
Page 100 - This sum came very seasonably, as I was thinking of indenting myself, for want of money to procure my passage. As soon as I was master of nine guineas, the price of wafting me to the torrid zone, I took a steerage passage in the first ship that was to sail from the Clyde...
Page 87 - In short, she, altogether unwittingly to herself, initiated me in that delicious passion, which, in spite of acid disappointment, gin-horse prudence, and book-worm philosophy, I hold to be the first of human joys, our dearest blessing here below...
Page 375 - Scotland, that it was Robert Bruce's march at the battle of Bannockburn. This thought, in my solitary wanderings, warmed me to a pitch of enthusiasm on the theme of liberty and independence, which I threw into a kind of Scottish ode, fitted to the air, that one might suppose to be the gallant Royal Scot's address to his heroic followers on that eventful morning.
Page 605 - I saw in the visions of my head upon my bed, and behold, a watcher and an holy one came down from heaven. He cried aloud, and said thus, Hew down the tree, and cut off his branches ; shake off his leaves, and scatter his fruit; let the beasts get away from under it, and the fowls from his branches.
Page 434 - The snaw-drap and primrose our woodlands adorn, And violets bathe in the weet o' the morn ; They pain my sad bosom, sae sweetly they blaw, They mind me o...