Memorials of Robert Burns and His Contemporaries with Selections from His Poems1876 - 422 pages |
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... Till his 23rd year , by his brother's testimony , and to use his own words , " my " heart glowed with honest warm simplicity , un- " acquainted and uncorrupted with the ways of a " wicked world . The great misfortune of my life was ...
... Till his 23rd year , by his brother's testimony , and to use his own words , " my " heart glowed with honest warm simplicity , un- " acquainted and uncorrupted with the ways of a " wicked world . The great misfortune of my life was ...
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... till I have an opportunity in person , which I expect to have on Thursday first , of assuring you how sincerely I ever am , " Honoured and Dear Sir , " Your oft obliged , " ROBT . BURNS . " Of the many most interesting letters sent by ...
... till I have an opportunity in person , which I expect to have on Thursday first , of assuring you how sincerely I ever am , " Honoured and Dear Sir , " Your oft obliged , " ROBT . BURNS . " Of the many most interesting letters sent by ...
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... Till crush'd beneath the furrow's weight , Shall be thy doom ! " But Burns can descend to things most insignificant , most unpoetical , and yet charm you . Shakspere says― " The toad , ugly and venomous , Wears yet a precious jewel in ...
... Till crush'd beneath the furrow's weight , Shall be thy doom ! " But Burns can descend to things most insignificant , most unpoetical , and yet charm you . Shakspere says― " The toad , ugly and venomous , Wears yet a precious jewel in ...
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... Till too , too soon , the glowing west Proclaim'd the speed of winged day . Still o'er these scenes my mem'ry wakes , And fondly broods with miser care ! Time but th ' impression deeper makes , As streams their channels deeper wear . My ...
... Till too , too soon , the glowing west Proclaim'd the speed of winged day . Still o'er these scenes my mem'ry wakes , And fondly broods with miser care ! Time but th ' impression deeper makes , As streams their channels deeper wear . My ...
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... till he seems to feel the breeze from his native hills fan and revive his languid frame , -to see the well - known river , to hear the dash of its waterfalls , and listen to the murmuring flow of its crystal streams at the magic touch ...
... till he seems to feel the breeze from his native hills fan and revive his languid frame , -to see the well - known river , to hear the dash of its waterfalls , and listen to the murmuring flow of its crystal streams at the magic touch ...
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Page 223 - 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 94 - He was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul, All the images of Nature were still present to him, and he drew them, not laboriously, but luckily: when he describes any thing, you more than see it, you feel it too.
Page 223 - And decks the lily fair in flow'ry pride, Would, in the way His wisdom sees the best, For them and for their little ones provide; But, chiefly, in their hearts with Grace Divine preside.
Page 224 - And oh ! may Heaven their simple lives prevent From luxury's contagion, weak and vile ! Then, howe'er crowns and coronets be rent, A virtuous populace may rise the while, And stand a wall of fire around their much-loved Isle. O Thou! who pour'd the patriotic tide That stream'd thro...
Page 221 - What makes the youth sae bashfu' an' sae grave ; Weel pleas'd to think her bairn's respected like the lave. O happy love ! where love like this is found ! O heart-felt raptures ! bliss beyond compare ! I've paced much this weary, mortal round, And sage experience bids me this declare: — "If Heaven a draught of heavenly pleasure spare, One cordial in this melancholy vale, 'Tis when a youthful, loving, modest pair, In other's arms breathe out the tender tale, Beneath the milk-white thorn that scents...
Page 257 - Thou's met me in an evil hour ; For I maun crush amang the stoure Thy slender stem : To spare thee now is past my pow'r, Thou bonnie gem. Alas ! it's no thy neebor sweet, The bonnie lark, companion meet, Bending thee 'mang the dewy weet ! Wi' speckl'd breast, When upward-springing, blythe, to greet, The purpling east.
Page 222 - The sire turns o'er, wi' patriarchal grace, The big ha' Bible, ance his father's pride: His bonnet rev'rently is laid aside, His lyart haffets wearing thin an' bare; .Those strains that once did sweet in Zion glide, He wales a portion with judicious care ; And ' Let us worship God !* he says, with solemn air.
Page 58 - Tho' they may gang a kennin wrang, To step aside is human : One point must still be greatly dark, The moving Why they do it ; And just as lamely can ye mark, How far perhaps they rue it. Who made the heart, 'tis 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.
Page 393 - Our toils obscure, and a' that ; The rank is but the guinea stamp ; The man's the gowd for a' that. What tho' on hamely fare we dine, Wear hodden gray, and a' that ; Gie fools their silks, and knaves their wine, A man's a man for a
Page 391 - 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