Annual Burns Chronicle and Club Directory, Volumes 17-19Burns Federation, 1908 |
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... give some account of the ancient festival . The subject is one that must interest all students of the National Poet of Scotland , since but for him we should know very much less about it than we do . Hallowe'en is decaying -- it might ...
... give some account of the ancient festival . The subject is one that must interest all students of the National Poet of Scotland , since but for him we should know very much less about it than we do . Hallowe'en is decaying -- it might ...
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... gives a ludicrous ending to four of these , and in this way showed how foolish was the belief in them . To give only one instance : -When " fechtin ' Jamie Fleck " went out to sow and harrow hemp seed , and at a particular stage of the ...
... gives a ludicrous ending to four of these , and in this way showed how foolish was the belief in them . To give only one instance : -When " fechtin ' Jamie Fleck " went out to sow and harrow hemp seed , and at a particular stage of the ...
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... gives you the impression that he found a description of Hallowe'en too much for him , and suddenly dropped the task ; Burns brings before you the whole proceedings of the night , and portrays them minutely and with ease . Mayne begins ...
... gives you the impression that he found a description of Hallowe'en too much for him , and suddenly dropped the task ; Burns brings before you the whole proceedings of the night , and portrays them minutely and with ease . Mayne begins ...
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... give a few interesting facts about those that were to him the nearest and dearest - leaving out , of course , his relations and those of whom sufficient has already been written . JOHN MURDOCH , born at Ayr in 1747 , received a liberal ...
... give a few interesting facts about those that were to him the nearest and dearest - leaving out , of course , his relations and those of whom sufficient has already been written . JOHN MURDOCH , born at Ayr in 1747 , received a liberal ...
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... give you the desired permission ? No ! she was too fine a lady to notice so fine a compliment . As to her great brothers , whom I have since met in life on more equal terms of respectability— why should I quarrel with their want of ...
... give you the desired permission ? No ! she was too fine a lady to notice so fine a compliment . As to her great brothers , whom I have since met in life on more equal terms of respectability— why should I quarrel with their want of ...
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25th January Alex Alexander Allan Andrew Anniversary Auld Bard Burns Club Burns Club dormant Burns Federation Burns's Campbell century Chair of Scottish Chronicle Club-To Committee Concert Cowdenbeath Cromek Cunningham Dalry date of meeting David Dumfries Edinburgh edition Ellisland English ex-Bailie Federated 1886 Federated 1891 Fergusson friends genius George Glasgow Glencairn Gourock Greenock Haggis Hallowe'en Hamilton Highland Mary honour Hotel Illust James Forrest Jean Jeffrey Hunter John Jolly Beggars Kilmarnock lady language Lecture letter literary Logan London Lord M'Callum M'Naught Mauchline Mossgiel Murdoch musical Musselburgh Old Kilpatrick p.m. President Paisley Place and date Place of meeting poems Poet Poet's poetical poetry portrait Provost published Raeburn Ramsay Riddell Road Robert Burns Rosebery Rutherglen Sanquhar School Scotland Scots Scottish History Scottish literature Secretary Shanter song Special features Street Terrace Thomas Thomson Thornliebank Treasurer verses Vice-president volume Wallace William Wilson writings wrote ΙΟ
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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.