The works of Robert Burns; with an account of his life, and a criticism on his writings, Volume 21800 |
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... madam , has not only been all my life my chief dependence , but my dearest enjoyment . I have indeed been the luck- less victim of wayward follies ; but , alas ! I have ever been " more fool than knave . " A mathema- tician without ...
... madam , has not only been all my life my chief dependence , but my dearest enjoyment . I have indeed been the luck- less victim of wayward follies ; but , alas ! I have ever been " more fool than knave . " A mathema- tician without ...
Page 140
... MADAM , THE last paragraph in yours of the 30th February , affected me most , so I shall begin my answer where you ended your letter . That I am often a sinner with any little wit I have , I do con- fess but I have taxed my recollection ...
... MADAM , THE last paragraph in yours of the 30th February , affected me most , so I shall begin my answer where you ended your letter . That I am often a sinner with any little wit I have , I do con- fess but I have taxed my recollection ...
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... MADAM , YOUR powers of reprehension must be great indeed , as I assure you they made my heart ache with penitential pangs , even though I was really not guilty . As I commence farmer at Whitsunday , you will easily guess I must be ...
... MADAM , YOUR powers of reprehension must be great indeed , as I assure you they made my heart ache with penitential pangs , even though I was really not guilty . As I commence farmer at Whitsunday , you will easily guess I must be ...
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... madam , I prepared with the sincerest pleasure to meet you at the Mount , and came to my brother's on Saturday night , to set out on Sunday ; but for some nights preceding I had slept in an apartment , where the force of the winds and ...
... madam , I prepared with the sincerest pleasure to meet you at the Mount , and came to my brother's on Saturday night , to set out on Sunday ; but for some nights preceding I had slept in an apartment , where the force of the winds and ...
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... MADAM , DRYDEN'S Virgil has delighted me . I do not know whether the critics will agree with me , but the Georgics are to me by far the best of Virgil . It is indeed a species of writing entirely new to me ; and has filled my head with ...
... MADAM , DRYDEN'S Virgil has delighted me . I do not know whether the critics will agree with me , but the Georgics are to me by far the best of Virgil . It is indeed a species of writing entirely new to me ; and has filled my head with ...
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Page 22 - There is scarcely any earthly object gives me more — I do not know if I should call 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. It is my best season for devotion: my mind is wrapt up in a kind of enthusiasm to Him, who, in the pompous language of the Hebrew bard, ' walks on the wings of the wind.
Page 293 - Still o'er these scenes my memory wakes, And fondly broods with miser care ; Time but the impression stronger makes, As streams their channels deeper wear.
Page 200 - Go fetch to me a pint o' wine, And fill it in a silver tassie; That I may drink before I go A service to my bonnie lassie...
Page 316 - Thy spirit, Independence, let me share ; ' " Lord of the Lion-heart and eagle eye ! " Thy steps I follow with my bosom bare, " Nor heed the storm that howls along the sky...
Page 6 - Oh! happy state! when souls each other draw, When love is liberty, and nature law...
Page 136 - The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and Nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the war of elements, The wreck of matter, and the crush of worlds.
Page 209 - I was here airing myself on the tops of the mountains, I fell into a profound contemplation on the vanity of human life; and, passing from one thought to another, surely, said I, man is but a shadow and life a dream.
Page 209 - Bagdat in order to pass the rest of the day in meditation and prayer. As I was here airing myself on the tops of the mountains, I fell into a profound contemplation on the vanity of human life; and, passing from one thought to another, surely...
Page 210 - I never hear the loud solitary whistle of the curlew in a summer noon, or the wild mixing cadence of a troop of gray plover in an autumnal morning, without feeling an elevation of soul like the enthusiasm of devotion or poetry.
Page 278 - 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?