 | Phrenology - 1836 - 694 pages
...favourable to every thing great and noble.* There is scarcely any earthly object gives me more — I do not know if I should call it pleasure — but something...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... | |
 | Silas Jones - Phrenology - 1836 - 348 pages
...favorable to every thing great and noble. There is scarcely any earthly object gives me more, — I do not know if I should call it pleasure, — but something...enraptures me, — than to walk in the sheltered side of wood or high plantation, in a cloudy winter day, and hear the stormy wind howling among the trees,... | |
 | Jared Sparks, James Russell Lowell, Edward Everett, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1836 - 588 pages
...his soul. " There is scarcely any earthly object," says he, "gives me more, — I do not know that I should call it pleasure, — but something which...— than to walk in the sheltered side of a wood or a high plantation, in a cloudy winter day, and hear the stormy wind howling among the trees, and raving... | |
 | Robert Burns, John Gibson Lockhart - Scotland - 1837 - 628 pages
...There is scarcely any earthly object gives me more — I do not knuw if I should cull it plealure — but something which exalts me, something which enraptures me — than to walk in the «heiter«! side of the wood, or high plantation, in a cloudy winter-day, and hear the stormy wind... | |
 | Charles Bucke - 1837 - 488 pages
...Burns, in one of his letters, " gives me more, I do not know if I should call it pleasure, — but something, which enraptures me, — than to walk in the sheltered side of a wood in a cloudy winter day, and hear the strong wind howling among the trees, and raving on the plain.... | |
 | Sharon Turner - Creation - 1838 - 448 pages
...favourable to every thing great and noble. There is scarcely any object that gives me more — shall I call it pleasure,— but something which exalts me,...sheltered side of a wood or high plantation in a cloudy winter day. and to hear the stormy wind howling They are all meant to operate to one end. They lead... | |
 | Robert Burns - Poets, English - 1840 - 872 pages
...pleasure [The above is, with the exception of one or ' two songs, the earliest of all the Poet's compo— but something which exalts me — something which enraptures me — than to walk in the shelsitions. According to Gilbert Burns, it was a juvenile production. It is, says Lockhart, "an tered... | |
 | Allan Cunningham - 1841 - 384 pages
...the works of nature." " There is scarcely any earthly object," says Burns, " gives me more, — I do not know if I should call it pleasure — but something...the sheltered side of a wood, or high plantation, on a cloudy winter-day, and hear the stormy wind howling among the trees, and raving over the plain.... | |
 | Samuel Osgood - American literature - 1842 - 408 pages
...his soul. " There is scarcely any earthly object," says he, "gives me more, — I do not know that I should call it pleasure, — but something which...— than to walk in the sheltered side of a wood or a high plantation, in a cloudy winter day, and hear the stormy wind howling among the trees, and raving... | |
 | University magazine - 1845 - 772 pages
...favourable to every thing great and noble. There is scarcely anl earthly object gives me more — I do not know if I should call it pleasure — but something...plantation, in a cloudy winter-day, and hear the stormy wind bowline among the trees, and raving over the plain. It is my best season for devotion; ml mind is wrapt>pin... | |
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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... 
