Annual Burns Chronicle and Club Directory, Volumes 17-19Burns Federation, 1908 |
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... ALLAN CUNNINGHAM . WILLIAM CLARK ( Ploughman ) . Robert Burns , whose general talents are no less conspicuous than the poetic powers which have done so much honour to the country in which he was born . COLONEL WILLIAM FULLARTON . Bring ...
... ALLAN CUNNINGHAM . WILLIAM CLARK ( Ploughman ) . Robert Burns , whose general talents are no less conspicuous than the poetic powers which have done so much honour to the country in which he was born . COLONEL WILLIAM FULLARTON . Bring ...
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... ALLAN CUNNINGHAM'S Life of Burns . He had a fine pair o ' een , lairge , dark , lustrous - for a ' the world like lowin ' coals - that glower'd as if they'd pierce ye thro ' and thro ' . MRS MARION HUNTER . His voice alone could improve ...
... ALLAN CUNNINGHAM'S Life of Burns . He had a fine pair o ' een , lairge , dark , lustrous - for a ' the world like lowin ' coals - that glower'd as if they'd pierce ye thro ' and thro ' . MRS MARION HUNTER . His voice alone could improve ...
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... ALLAN CUNNINGHAM . As for Burns , I may truly say Virgilium vidi tantum . I was a lad of fifteen ... when he first came to Edinburgh . . . . There was a strong ex- pression of sense and shrewdness in all his lineaments ; the eye alone ...
... ALLAN CUNNINGHAM . As for Burns , I may truly say Virgilium vidi tantum . I was a lad of fifteen ... when he first came to Edinburgh . . . . There was a strong ex- pression of sense and shrewdness in all his lineaments ; the eye alone ...
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... ALLAN CUNNINGHAM , 1834 . JAMES HOGG , 1836 . I shall always regard him as not only a great but a good man . SOME ENGLISHMEN . That northern phenomenon in the annals of poetry in whom we discover the rare union of great simplicity and ...
... ALLAN CUNNINGHAM , 1834 . JAMES HOGG , 1836 . I shall always regard him as not only a great but a good man . SOME ENGLISHMEN . That northern phenomenon in the annals of poetry in whom we discover the rare union of great simplicity and ...
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... ALLAN CUNNINGHAM . He has built monuments on the high places , and they who follow can only hope to leave behind them some far humbler memorials . JAMES HOGG . It was on the open field , under the cope of heaven , this poetical Franklin ...
... ALLAN CUNNINGHAM . He has built monuments on the high places , and they who follow can only hope to leave behind them some far humbler memorials . JAMES HOGG . It was on the open field , under the cope of heaven , this poetical Franklin ...
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Page 111 - The bridegroom may forget the bride Was made his wedded wife yestreen ; The monarch may forget the crown ' That on his head an hour has been ; The mother may forget the child That smiles sae sweetly on her knee ; But I'll remember thee, Glencairn, And a' that thou hast done for me ! " LINES, SENT TO SIR JOHN WHITEFORD, OF WHITEFORD, BART.
Page 52 - Scotch school, ie none of your modern agriculturists, who keep labourers for their drudgery, but the douce gudeman who held his own plough. There was a strong expression of sense and shrewdness in all his lineaments ; the eye alone, I think, indicated the poetical character and temperament. It was large and of a dark cast, which glowed, I say literally glowed, when he spoke with feeling or interest. I never saw such another eye in a human head, though I have seen the most distinguished men of my...
Page 19 - Now, Spring returns : but not to me returns The vernal joy my better years have known ; Dim in my breast life's dying taper burns, And all the joys of life with health are flown.
Page 70 - It's hardly in a body's pow'r, To keep, at times, frae being sour, To see how things are shar'd ; How best o...
Page 125 - Luther, struck more telling blows against false theology than did this brave singer. The " Confession of Augsburg," the "Declaration of Independence," the French " Rights of Man," and the " Marseillaise " are not more weighty documents in the history of freedom than the songs of Burns.
Page 84 - MARY 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
Page 30 - That hangs his head, and a' that! The coward slave, we pass him by, We dare be poor for a' that! For a' that, and a' that, Our toils obscure, and a' that; The rank is but the guinea's stamp, The Man's the gowd for a
Page 82 - The men with whom he generally associated were not of the lowest order. He numbered among his intimate friends many of the most respectable inhabitants of Dumfries and the vicinity. Several of those were attached to him by ties that the hand of calumny, busy as it was, could never snap asunder. They admired the Poet for his genius, and loved the man for the candour, generosity, and kindness of his nature. His early friends clung to him through good and bad report, with a zeal and fidelity that prove...
Page 54 - Burns," says Professor Wilson, "is by far the greatest poet that ever sprung from the bosom of the people, and lived and died in an humble condition. Indeed, no country in the world but Scotland could have produced such a man; and he will be for ever regarded as the glorious representative of the genius of his country. He was born a poet, if ever man was, and to his native genius alone is owing the perpetuity of his fame. For...
Page 77 - Autumn following, she crossed the sea to meet me at Greenock ; where she had scarce landed when she was seized with a malignant fever, which hurried my dear girl to the grave in a few days ! before I could even hear of her illness.