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... believe there dwelt a larger por- tion of content than in any palace in Europe . The Cottar's Saturday Night will give some idea of the temper and manners that prevailed there . " The boys , under the joint tuition of Murdoch and their ...
... believe there dwelt a larger por- tion of content than in any palace in Europe . The Cottar's Saturday Night will give some idea of the temper and manners that prevailed there . " The boys , under the joint tuition of Murdoch and their ...
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... believe the truth was , that about this time he began to see the dangerous impetuosity of my brother's passions , as well as his not being amenable to counsel , which often irritated my father , and which he would naturally think a ...
... believe the truth was , that about this time he began to see the dangerous impetuosity of my brother's passions , as well as his not being amenable to counsel , which often irritated my father , and which he would naturally think a ...
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... believe , that one who possessed , with his other qualifications , such powers of flattering , feared competitors as little in the diversions of his evenings as in the toils of his day . The rural lover , in those districts , pursues ...
... believe , that one who possessed , with his other qualifications , such powers of flattering , feared competitors as little in the diversions of his evenings as in the toils of his day . The rural lover , in those districts , pursues ...
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... believe that the periodical display of the poet's own vigour and resources , at these club - meetings , and ( more frequently than his brother approved ) at the Free Mason Lodges of Irvine and Tarbolton , extended his rural reputation ...
... believe that the periodical display of the poet's own vigour and resources , at these club - meetings , and ( more frequently than his brother approved ) at the Free Mason Lodges of Irvine and Tarbolton , extended his rural reputation ...
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... believe that Burns has thought fit to record in verse all the feelings which this exposure excited in his bosom . " To wave ( in his own language ) the quantum of the sin , " he who , two years afterwards , wrote The Cottar's Saturday ...
... believe that Burns has thought fit to record in verse all the feelings which this exposure excited in his bosom . " To wave ( in his own language ) the quantum of the sin , " he who , two years afterwards , wrote The Cottar's Saturday ...
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Page 66 - My heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not here, My heart's in the Highlands a-chasing the deer; Chasing the wild deer, and following the roe — My heart's in the Highlands wherever I go.
Page xci - 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 79 - Again thou usher'st in the day My Mary from my soul was torn. O Mary ! dear departed shade ! Where is thy place of blissful rest ? Seest thou thy lover lowly laid ? Hear'st thou the groans that rend his breast...
Page 55 - Guid faith he mauna fa' that ! For a' that, and a' that, Their dignities, and a' that, The pith o' sense, and pride o' worth, Are higher rank than a' that. Then let us pray that come it may, As come it will for a' that ; That sense and worth, o'er a' the earth, May bear the gree, and a' that. For a
Page cxvii - 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 WHITEFOORU OF WHITEFOORD, BART.
Page 65 - Or canst thou break that heart of his, Whase only faut is loving thee ? If love for love thou wilt na gie, At least be pity to me shown ! A thought ungentle canna be The thought o
Page xxviii - Scotch school, /'. e. 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...
Page xxxii - An honest man's the noblest work of God.' And certes in fair virtue's heavenly road, The cottage leaves the palace far behind: What is a lordling's pomp? a cumbrous load, Disguising oft the wretch of human kind, Studied in arts of hell, in wickedness refined!
Page xliii - Had we never loved sae kindly, Had we never loved sae blindly, Never met, or never parted, We had ne'er been broken-hearted.
Page 55 - Wha will be a traitor knave? Wha can fill a coward's grave? Wha sae base as be a slave? Let him turn and flee! Wha, for Scotland's King and Law, Freedom's sword will strongly draw, Free-man stand, or Free-man fa', Let him follow me! By Oppression's woes and pains! By your sons in servile chains! We will drain our dearest veins, But they shall be free! Lay the proud Usurpers low! Tyrants fall in every foe! Liberty's in every blow! — Let us do or die!