| Robert Burns, Mrs. Frances Anna (Wallace) Dunlop, Frances Anna Wallace Dunlop - Poets, Scottish - 1898 - 370 pages
...among which are the mountain daisy, the hare-bell, the fox-glove, the wild brier-rose, the budding birk and the hoary hawthorn, that I view and hang over...summer noon, or the wild, mixing cadence of a troop of grey plover in an autumnal morning, without feeling an elevation of soul like the enthusiasm of devotion... | |
| Thomas Carlyle - 1898 - 130 pages
...flowers in spring, among which are the mountain-daisy, the harebell, the foxglove, the wild brier rose, the budding birch, and the hoary hawthorn, that I...particular delight. I never hear the loud solitary 5 whistle of the curlew in a summer noon, or the wild mixing cadence of a troop of gray plover in an... | |
| John Dawson Ross - 1899 - 222 pages
...writes : " I have some favourite flowers in spring, among which are the mountain daisy, the harebell, the foxglove, the wild brier-rose, the budding birch,...the loud, solitary whistle of the curlew in a summer morn, or the wild mixing cadence of a troop of grey plovers in an autumnal morning, without feeling... | |
| Robert Burns - Scotland - 1899 - 214 pages
...flowers in spring, among which are the mountain-daisy, the harebell, the foxglove, the wild brier rose, the budding birch, and the hoary hawthorn, that I...particular delight. I never hear the loud solitary 5 whistle of the curlew in a summer noon, or the wild mixing cadence of a troop of gray plover in an... | |
| Henry Mackenzie - Scotland in literature - 1900 - 332 pages
...impression. I have some favourite flowers in spring; among which are the mountain daisy, the harebell, the foxglove, the wild brier-rose, the budding birch,...summer noon, or the wild, mixing cadence of a troop of grey plover in an autumnal morning, without feeling an elevation of soul, like the enthusiasm of devotion... | |
| Thomas Carlyle, William Tenney Brewster - Readers - 1901 - 150 pages
...flowers in spring, among which are the mountain-daisy, the harebell, the foxglove, the wild-brier rose, the budding birch, and the hoary hawthorn, that I...of the curlew in a summer noon, or the wild mixing 775 cadence of a troop of gray plover in an autumnal morning, without feeling an elevation of soul... | |
| Estelle Davenport Adams - Death - 1902 - 316 pages
...world of trouble, and envy none but those of the estate six feet by two.2 ROBERT BURNS. (1759-1796) I NEVER hear the loud, solitary whistle of the curlew...summer noon, or the wild, mixing cadence of a troop of grey plovers in an autumnal morning, without feeling an elevation of soul like the enthusiasm of devotion... | |
| Thomas Marc Parrott, Augustus White Long - English poetry - 1902 - 432 pages
...more had been, a lover of nature. His delight in the world around him amounted almost to worship. " I never hear the loud solitary whistle of the curlew in a summer noon," he wrote to a friend, "or the wild mixing cadence of a troop of gray plover in an autumnal morning... | |
| Thomas Carlyle - English literature - 1902 - 158 pages
...in spring, among which are the mountaindaisy, the harebell, the fox glove, the wild-brier rose, so the budding birch, and the hoary hawthorn, that I view and hang oter with particular delight. I never hear the loud solitary whistle of the curlew in a summer noon,... | |
| Arthur Grant - Great Britain - 1903 - 300 pages
...delights in quoting appropriate ' bits ' from his favourite poet. ' I never hear,' he will say — ' I never hear the loud, solitary whistle of the curlew...summer noon, or the wild mixing cadence of a troop of plovers in an autumnal morning, without feeling an elevation of soul like the enthusiasm of devotion... | |
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