 | University magazine - 1877 - 872 pages
...effusions ofBeranger in France, and Davis, the national singer of Ireland. " My passions," said Burns, " when once lighted up, raged like so many devils, till...my verses, like a spell, soothed all into quiet." And in the very spirit of the enthusiasm of love he wrote regarding the heroines of one of his songs... | |
 | Allan Cunningham, Charles Mackay - Poetry - 1879 - 628 pages
...hour. I had usually half a dozen or more pieces on hand ; I took up one or other, as it suited the momentary tone of the mind, and dismissed the work...the eldest of my printed pieces ; "The Death of poor Maillie," " John Barleycorn," and songs first, second, and third. Song second was the ebullition of... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1880 - 362 pages
...hour. I had usually half a dozen or more pieces on hand ; I took up one or the other, as it suited the momentary tone of the mind, and dismissed the work...days are in print, except ' Winter, a Dirge,' the oldest of my printed pieces ; ' The Death of Poor Mailie,' ' John Barleycorn,' and Songs I., II., and... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - English literature - 1880 - 182 pages
...glowing with the warmth and truth of nature. He was content to exhibit his feeling as he felt it : ' My passions, when once lighted up raged like so many...my verses, like a spell, soothed all into quiet.' This man, who despises cant, could not wear the classical dress. His figure is too awkward and powerful... | |
 | Robert Burns - Poets, Scottish - 1881 - 700 pages
...the hour. I had usually ha'fa-dozen or more pieees on hand ; I took up one or other, as it suited the momentary tone of the mind, and dismissed the work as it bordered on fatigue. My passions, when onee lighted up, raged like so many devils, till they got vent in rhyme ; and then the eonning over... | |
 | John Nichol - 1882 - 102 pages
...With the sweetness of the fields came the benign influences of Coila, to which he thus refers : — " My passions, when once lighted up, raged like so many...my verses, like a spell, soothed all into quiet." Here the lyrist of the last century anticipates the great mosaicworker of the present — " But for... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1882 - 380 pages
...productions, of a period which might embrace a year or so after his return from Irvine, thus observed : — "None of the rhymes of those days are in print, except...Winter, a dirge ' (the eldest of my printed pieces), and Songs, first, second, and third." These are (1) " The Rigs o' Barley," (2) " Now Westlin Winds,"... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - English language - 1882 - 1108 pages
...to exhibit his feeling as he felt it: 'My passions, when once lighted up, raged like no many devil*, till they got vent in rhyme : and then the conning...my verses, like a spell, soothed all into quiet.' This man, who despises cant, could not wear the classical dress. His figure is too awkward and powerful... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - English language - 1883 - 586 pages
...of nature. He was content to exhibit his feeling as he felt it: 'My passions, when once lighted np, raged like so many devils, till they got vent in rhyme;...my verses, like a spell, soothed all into quiet.' This man, who despises cant, could not wear the classical dress. His figure is too awkward and powerful... | |
 | Rose Elizabeth Cleveland - 1885 - 212 pages
...that soothing balm which the utterance is to his reader. Burns said, " My passions when once lighted raged like so many devils till they got vent in rhyme...my verses, like a spell, soothed all into quiet." But where will one find a lullaby in George Eliot's verses ? Poets do, indeed, learn in suffering what... | |
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Shandy and the Man of Feeling were my bosom favourites. Poesy was still a darling walk for my mind, but it was only indulged in according to the humour of the hour. I had usually half a dozen or more pieces on hand; I took up one or other, as it suited... 
