Annual Burns Chronicle and Club Directory, Volumes 17-19Burns Federation, 1908 |
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... Bank , which reduced " the bauld Lapraik , the king o ' hearts " ( as Burns described him ) , from being the owner of a small farm in the neighbourhood of Muirkirk to a condition of great pecuniary embarrassment . Encouraged by the ...
... Bank , which reduced " the bauld Lapraik , the king o ' hearts " ( as Burns described him ) , from being the owner of a small farm in the neighbourhood of Muirkirk to a condition of great pecuniary embarrassment . Encouraged by the ...
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... bank of the South Esk by the Bridge of Dun , which had been finished on 27th January , 1787 , the year of the Poet's tour . After that , by keeping straight up the brae at Maryton , they would strike the Arbroath road , and so driven on ...
... bank of the South Esk by the Bridge of Dun , which had been finished on 27th January , 1787 , the year of the Poet's tour . After that , by keeping straight up the brae at Maryton , they would strike the Arbroath road , and so driven on ...
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... banks of the Doon to " haud their Hallowe'en " when the Poet was there to see , is as great as might be . Not even is there a resemblance between the dishes . " Sowens , with butter instead of milk to them , is , " says Burns , " always ...
... banks of the Doon to " haud their Hallowe'en " when the Poet was there to see , is as great as might be . Not even is there a resemblance between the dishes . " Sowens , with butter instead of milk to them , is , " says Burns , " always ...
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... banks of Afton . On the captain's death , Logan removed to Laigh , and Burns was a frequent and welcome visitor ... banking firm of Douglas Heron & Co. in 1785. Sir John and his daughter . retired to Whiteford House , Edinburgh , a ...
... banks of Afton . On the captain's death , Logan removed to Laigh , and Burns was a frequent and welcome visitor ... banking firm of Douglas Heron & Co. in 1785. Sir John and his daughter . retired to Whiteford House , Edinburgh , a ...
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... Bank , succeeded to the family estate in 1776 , and purchased a property in Jamaica , which was superin- tended by his brother Charles . It was to this estate that Burns intended emigrating , having been offered the situation of book 39.
... Bank , succeeded to the family estate in 1776 , and purchased a property in Jamaica , which was superin- tended by his brother Charles . It was to this estate that Burns intended emigrating , having been offered the situation of book 39.
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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.