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... person of Mr. John Lockhart , the son - in - law of Sir Walter Scott , and ( ra- ther a discordant title ) , Editor of the London Quarterly Review . He in that year published a Life of Burns , both in the separate form , and as a part ...
... person of Mr. John Lockhart , the son - in - law of Sir Walter Scott , and ( ra- ther a discordant title ) , Editor of the London Quarterly Review . He in that year published a Life of Burns , both in the separate form , and as a part ...
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... person and habits at this period by a brother poet , who shews cause against success in farming - The untoward conjunction of Gauger to Farmer - The notice of the squirearchy , and the calls of admiring visitors , lead too uniformly to ...
... person and habits at this period by a brother poet , who shews cause against success in farming - The untoward conjunction of Gauger to Farmer - The notice of the squirearchy , and the calls of admiring visitors , lead too uniformly to ...
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... person who knew the two boys , had been asked which of them was the most likely to court the Muses , he would never have guessed that Robert had a propensity of that kind . " " At those years , " says the poet himself , in 1787 , " I ...
... person who knew the two boys , had been asked which of them was the most likely to court the Muses , he would never have guessed that Robert had a propensity of that kind . " " At those years , " says the poet himself , in 1787 , " I ...
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... instance , whatever attentions he received there from people older as well as higher than himself : some such persons appear to vi LIFE OF ROBERT BURNS . Love Letters, at 20, in good English, but unavail- ing, ~~~ 247-9.
... instance , whatever attentions he received there from people older as well as higher than himself : some such persons appear to vi LIFE OF ROBERT BURNS . Love Letters, at 20, in good English, but unavail- ing, ~~~ 247-9.
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... person , inured to daily toil , and continually expos- ed to every variety of weather , presented , before the usual time , every cha- racteristic of robust and vigorous manhood . He says himself , that he never feared a competitor in ...
... person , inured to daily toil , and continually expos- ed to every variety of weather , presented , before the usual time , every cha- racteristic of robust and vigorous manhood . He says himself , that he never feared a competitor in ...
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Allan Cunningham Allan Ramsay amang auld Ayrshire ballad bard beautiful bonnie lassie bosom braes braw Burns Burns's cauld character charms Dalswinton DEAR SIR delight Dugald Stewart Dumfries Dunlop e'en e'er Edinburgh Elliesland fair fancy father favour favourite feelings frae Gavin Hamilton genius give gude hame happy heart Highland Highland laddie honest honour hope ilka Kilmarnock kind labour laddie lady lass letter lo'e Lord Madam Mauchline maun mind mony morning Mossgiel muse nae mair ne'er never night o'er pleasure poems poet poet's poetic poetry poor Robert Burns Scotland Scots Scottish Shanter sing song soul stanzas sweet Tarbolton taste tell thee There's thing THOMSON thou thought thro tion Tune verses weel Whigs wife William Burnes Willie wish write young
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Page 184 - I'll wage thee! Who shall say that Fortune grieves him While the star of hope she leaves him? Me, nae cheerfu' twinkle lights me, Dark despair around benights me. I'll ne'er blame my partial fancy; Naething could resist my Nancy; But to see her was to love her, Love but her, and love for ever. Had we never loved sae kindly, Had we never loved sae blindly, Never met - or never parted, We had ne'er been broken-hearted.
Page 52 - Wi' his last gasp his gab did gape; Five tomahawks, wi' blude red-rusted ; Five scymitars, wi' murder crusted ; A garter, which a babe had strangled ; A knife, a father's throat had mangled, Whom his ain son o...
Page 36 - mang the dewy weet ! Wi' spreckl'd breast, "When upward-springing, blythe, to greet, The purpling east. Cauld blew the bitter-biting north Upon thy early, humble birth ; Yet cheerfully thou glinted forth Amid the storm, Scarce rear'd above the parent earth Thy tender form. The flaunting flowers our gardens yield, High shelt'ring woods and wa's maun shield ; But thou, beneath the random bield O' clod or stane, Adorns the histie stibble-field Unseen, alane.
Page 52 - Kate soon will be a woefu' woman! Now, do thy speedy utmost, Meg, And win the key-stane of the brig; There, at them thou thy tail may toss, A running stream they dare na cross! But ere the key-stane she could make, The fient a tail she had to shake: For Nannie, far before the rest, Hard upon noble Maggie prest, And flew at Tam wi' furious ettle; But little wist she Maggie's mettle!
Page xiv - 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 42 - 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 54 - Is there a man, whose judgment clear Can others teach the course to steer, Yet runs, himself, life's mad career, Wild as the wave ; Here pause— and, through the starting tear, Survey this grave. The poor inhabitant below Was quick to learn, and wise to know, And keenly felt the friendly glow, And softer flame ; But thoughtless follies laid him low, And stain'd his name ! Reader, attend — whether thy soul Soars fancy's flights beyond the pole, Or darkling grubs this earthly hole, In low pursuit...
Page 33 - 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 208 - MY heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not here ; My heart's in the Highlands a-chasing the deer ; Chasing the wild deer, and following the roe, My heart's in the Highlands wherever I go.
Page xlviii - His person was strong and robust : his manners rustic, not clownish ; a sort of dignified plainness and simplicity, which received part of its effect perhaps from one's knowledge of his extraordinary talents. His features are represented in Mr Nasmyth's picture, but to me it conveys the idea that they are diminished as if seen in perspective. I think his countenance was more massive than it looks in any of the portraits.