The Centennial Birth-day of Robert Burns: As Celebrated by the ... Burns Club of the City of New York, Tuesday, January, 25th, 1859Lang & Laing, 1860 - 136 pages |
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... letters , the birth of a farmer's boy , who became a ploughman , a flax - dresser , an exciseman and gauger , and who was reputed also to have become a poet . One hundred years ago , January 25th , 1759 , Agnes Brown Burness gave to the ...
... letters , the birth of a farmer's boy , who became a ploughman , a flax - dresser , an exciseman and gauger , and who was reputed also to have become a poet . One hundred years ago , January 25th , 1759 , Agnes Brown Burness gave to the ...
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... letters . He was not pre- cocious . His earlier years seem to have been purely receptive . He was unconsciously receiving his education . It was a good education . There was no Latin nor Greek in it ; but as he did not intend to sing in ...
... letters . He was not pre- cocious . His earlier years seem to have been purely receptive . He was unconsciously receiving his education . It was a good education . There was no Latin nor Greek in it ; but as he did not intend to sing in ...
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... letters and improving his style by every diligence , and opening correspondence with every man who could write a creditable letter . His soul was struggling and it had no helper . Again , he is at home upon his father's farm , at ...
... letters and improving his style by every diligence , and opening correspondence with every man who could write a creditable letter . His soul was struggling and it had no helper . Again , he is at home upon his father's farm , at ...
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... letter was dated the 23rd of December . Three days afterward his mind was won back so that he consented to join in a carouse to welcome in the New Year ; and as the merri- ment of that occasion ran high , a spark caught the flax , and ...
... letter was dated the 23rd of December . Three days afterward his mind was won back so that he consented to join in a carouse to welcome in the New Year ; and as the merri- ment of that occasion ran high , a spark caught the flax , and ...
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... letter to Dr. Moore : " The character and employment of a poet were formerly my pleasure , but now my pride . * * * Poesy I am determined to prosecute with all my vigor . " His doubts becoming confirmed that his farming would not be ...
... letter to Dr. Moore : " The character and employment of a poet were formerly my pleasure , but now my pride . * * * Poesy I am determined to prosecute with all my vigor . " His doubts becoming confirmed that his farming would not be ...
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Page 54 - 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 19 - I had usually half a dozen or more pieces on hand ; I took up one or other, as it suited the momentary tone of the mind, and dismissed the work as it bordered on fatigue. My passions, when once lighted up, raged like so many devils, till they got vent in rhyme; and then the conning over my verses, like a spell, soothed all into quiet...
Page 23 - I never hear the loud, solitary whistle of the curlew in a summer noon, or the wild mixing cadence of a troop of grey plovers in an autumnal morning, without feeling an elevation of soul like the enthusiasm of devotion or poetry.
Page 50 - In my infant and boyish days, too, I owed much to an old woman who resided in the family, remarkable for her ignorance, credulity, and superstition. She had, I suppose, the largest collection in the country of tales and songs concerning devils, ghosts, fairies, brownies, witches, warlocks, spunkies, kelpies, elf-candles, dead-lights, wraiths, apparitions, cantraips, giants, enchanted towers, dragons, and other trumpery.
Page 51 - Here pause — and, thro' 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 ; Know, prudent, cautious self-control Is wisdom's root.
Page 108 - WILD Rose of Alloway ! my thanks : Thou 'mindst me of that autumn noon When first we met upon " the banks And braes o
Page 52 - I went to see him laid out for the grave; several eldern people were with me. He lay in a plain unadorned coffin, with a linen sheet drawn over his face, and on the bed, and around the body, herbs and flowers were thickly strewn according to the usage of the country. He was wasted somewhat by long illness; but death had not increased the swarthy hue of his face, which was uncommonly dark and deeply marked...
Page 112 - Strong sense, deep feeling, passions strong, A hate of tyrant and of knave, A love of right, a scorn of wrong, Of coward and of slave...
Page 55 - ... appealing, Broke in upon the sweet refrain Of pure and healthful feeling, It died upon the eye and ear, No inward answer gaining; No heart had I to see or hear The discord and the staining. Let those who never erred forget His worth, in vain bewailings; 90 Sweet Soul of Song!
Page 83 - Ordain'd to fire th' adoring sons of earth, With every charm of wisdom and of worth ; Ordain'd to light, with intellectual day, The mazy wheels of Nature as they play, Or, warm with Fancy's energy, to glow, And rival all but Shakspeare's name below.