The Works of Robert Burns: With an Account of His Life, and a Criticism on His Writings; to which are Prefixed, Some Observations on the Character and Condition of the Scottish Peasantry, Volume 4F. Lucas, jun. and J. Cushing, 1815 - Scotland |
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... Reason and resolve " - " Ne- ver to despair , " 34. To Mr. James Hamilton , grocer , Glas- gow . Ellisland , Ellisland , May 26 , 1789 . Sympathy in his misfortunes 35. To Wm . Creech , Esq . Ellisland , May 30 , 1789. Tooth - ache ...
... Reason and resolve " - " Ne- ver to despair , " 34. To Mr. James Hamilton , grocer , Glas- gow . Ellisland , Ellisland , May 26 , 1789 . Sympathy in his misfortunes 35. To Wm . Creech , Esq . Ellisland , May 30 , 1789. Tooth - ache ...
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... reason , I only tell you that I gratify my own feelings in requesting your friend- ly offices with respect to the inclosed , because I know it will gratify yours to assist me in it to the utmost of your power . I have sent you four ...
... reason , I only tell you that I gratify my own feelings in requesting your friend- ly offices with respect to the inclosed , because I know it will gratify yours to assist me in it to the utmost of your power . I have sent you four ...
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... Reason build resolve , That column of true majesty in man . Hear , Alfred , hero of the state , Young . Thy genius heaven's high will declare ; The triumph of the truly great Is never , never to despair ! Is never to despair ! Masque of ...
... Reason build resolve , That column of true majesty in man . Hear , Alfred , hero of the state , Young . Thy genius heaven's high will declare ; The triumph of the truly great Is never , never to despair ! Is never to despair ! Masque of ...
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... reasons for sending them ; primo , they are mostly ill - natured , so are in unison with my present feelings , while fifty troops of in- fernal spirits are driving post from ear to ear along my jaw - bones ; and secondly , they are so ...
... reasons for sending them ; primo , they are mostly ill - natured , so are in unison with my present feelings , while fifty troops of in- fernal spirits are driving post from ear to ear along my jaw - bones ; and secondly , they are so ...
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... reason to complain of my silence . The dazzling perplexity of novelty will dissipate and leave me to pursue my course in the quiet path of metho- dical routine , No. XLI . To Mr. W. NICOL . Ellisland , Feb. 9 , 1790 . My dear sir , That ...
... reason to complain of my silence . The dazzling perplexity of novelty will dissipate and leave me to pursue my course in the quiet path of metho- dical routine , No. XLI . To Mr. W. NICOL . Ellisland , Feb. 9 , 1790 . My dear sir , That ...
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Page 306 - Ae fond kiss, and then we sever; Ae fareweel, alas, for ever! Deep in heart-wrung tears I'll pledge thee, Warring sighs and groans I'll wage thee! Who shall say that Fortune grieves him While the star of hope she leaves him? Me, nae cheerfu' twinkle lights me, Dark despair around benights me.
Page 247 - And wi' the lave ilk merry morn Could rank my rig and lass, Still shearing, and clearing The tither stocked raw, Wi' claivers, an' haivers, Wearing the day awa : Ev'n then a wish, (I mind its power,) A wish that to my latest hour Shall strongly heave my breast ; That I for poor auld Scotland's sake, Some usefu' plan, or beuk could make, Or sing a sang at least.
Page 242 - Forgive my foul offence !' Fain promise never more to disobey ; But, should my author health again dispense, Again I might desert fair virtue's way ; Again in folly's path might go astray ; Again exalt the brute and sink the man ; Then how should I for heavenly mercy pray, Who act so counter heavenly mercy's plan?
Page 203 - Came tearing his hair most piteouslie. " 0 hald your tongue, my father," he says, " And see that ye dinna weep for me ! For they may ravish me o' my life, But they canna banish me fro
Page 239 - Green grow the rashes, O ; Green grow the rashes, O ; The sweetest hours that e'er I spend, Are spent am'ang the lasses, O ! THERE'S nought but care on ev'ry han', In ev'ry hour that passes, O ; What signifies the life o' man, An
Page 233 - ... it pleasure — but something which exalts me, something which enraptures me — than to walk in the sheltered side of a wood, or high plantation, in a cloudy winter day, and hear the stormy wind howling among the trees, and raving over the plain.
Page 227 - BURNESS ; a man who had little art in making money, and still less in keeping it ; but was, however, a man of some sense, a great deal of honesty, and unbounded good-will to every creature, rational and irrational.
Page 134 - MARY'S DREAM. THE moon had climbed the highest hill Which rises o'er the source of Dee, And from the eastern summit shed Her silver light on tower and tree, When Mary laid her down to sleep, Her thoughts on Sandy far at sea, When, soft and low, a voice was heard, Saying,
Page 306 - I'll ne'er blame my partial fancy, Naething could resist my Nancy ; But to see her was to love her, Love but her, and love for ever. Had we never lov'd sae kindly, Had we never lov'd sae blindly, Never met — or never parted, We had ne'er been broken-hearted.
Page 11 - Thou minds me o' the happy days When my fause luve was true. " Thou'll break my heart, thou bonie bird That sings beside thy mate ; For sae I sat, and sae I sang, And wist na o