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... Ramsay's " Works , Taylor's Scripture Doctrine of Original 66 66 Sin , A Select Collection of English Songs , and " Harvey's Meditations , had formed the whole of my reading . The collection of songs was my " vade mecum . I pored over ...
... Ramsay's " Works , Taylor's Scripture Doctrine of Original 66 66 Sin , A Select Collection of English Songs , and " Harvey's Meditations , had formed the whole of my reading . The collection of songs was my " vade mecum . I pored over ...
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... Ramsay of Ochtertyre , to whom our poet paid a visit in the autumn of 1787 , at his delightful retirement in the neigh- bourhood of Stirling , and on the banks of the Teith . Of this visit we have the following parti- culars . I " I ...
... Ramsay of Ochtertyre , to whom our poet paid a visit in the autumn of 1787 , at his delightful retirement in the neigh- bourhood of Stirling , and on the banks of the Teith . Of this visit we have the following parti- culars . I " I ...
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... Ramsay , of Ochtertyre , in a letter to the editor , " when passing through Dum- fries - shire , on a tour to the South , with Dr. Steuart of Luss . Seeing him pass quickly , near Close- burn , I said to my companion , that is Burns ...
... Ramsay , of Ochtertyre , in a letter to the editor , " when passing through Dum- fries - shire , on a tour to the South , with Dr. Steuart of Luss . Seeing him pass quickly , near Close- burn , I said to my companion , that is Burns ...
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... imprudent . for him to have entered on this subject at all , but for the kindness of Mr. Ramsay , of Ochtertyre , whose assistance he is proud to acknowledge , and and to whom the reader must ascribe whatever is of 270 LIFE OF.
... imprudent . for him to have entered on this subject at all , but for the kindness of Mr. Ramsay , of Ochtertyre , whose assistance he is proud to acknowledge , and and to whom the reader must ascribe whatever is of 270 LIFE OF.
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... Ramsay of Ochtertyre , " recourse may be had to conjecture . One would be disposed to think that the most beautiful of the Scottish tunes were clothed with new words after the union of the crowns . The inhabitants of the borders who had ...
... Ramsay of Ochtertyre , " recourse may be had to conjecture . One would be disposed to think that the most beautiful of the Scottish tunes were clothed with new words after the union of the crowns . The inhabitants of the borders who had ...
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Side 87 - Then kneeling down, to Heaven's eternal King, The saint, the father, and the husband prays: Hope "springs exulting on triumphant wing," That thus they all shall meet in future days, There ever bask in uncreated rays, No more to sigh, or shed the bitter tear, Together hymning their Creator's praise. In such society, yet still more dear; While circling time moves round in an eternal sphere.
Side 86 - Perhaps the Christian volume is the theme, How guiltless blood for guilty man was shed; How He, who bore in heaven the second name, Had not on earth whereon to lay his head; How his first followers and servants sped: The precepts sage they wrote to many a land: How he, who lone in Patmos banished, Saw in the sun a mighty angel stand; And heard great Babylon's doom pronounced by Heaven's command. Then, kneeling down to heaven's Eternal King, The saint, the father, and the husband prays; Hope springs...
Side 86 - With Amalek's ungracious progeny; Or how the royal bard did groaning lie Beneath the stroke of heaven's avenging ire; Or, Job's pathetic plaint, and wailing cry; Or rapt Isaiah's wild, seraphic fire; Or other holy seers that tune the sacred lyre.
Side 87 - And proffer up to heaven the warm request, That HE who stills the raven's clam'rous nest, And decks the lily fair in flow'ry pride, Would, in the way his wisdom sees the best, For them and for their little ones provide, But chiefly in their hearts with grace divine preside.
Side 49 - 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 the momentary tone of the mind, and dismissed the work as it bordered, on fatigue. My passions, when once lighted up, raged like so many devils, till they got vent in rhyme; and then the conning over my verses, like a spell, soothed all into quiet!
Side 85 - The sire turns o'er, wi' patriarchal grace, The big ha' Bible, ance his father's pride. His bonnet rev'rently is laid aside, His lyart haffets wearing thin an' bare ; Those strains that once did sweet in Zion glide, He wales a portion with judicious care ; And " Let us worship God !
Side 43 - ... promises, kindly stepped in, and carried him away, to where the wicked cease from troubling and where the weary are at rest!
Side 45 - The great misfortune of my life was — to want an aim. I had felt early some stirrings of ambition, but they were the blind gropings of Homer's Cyclops round the walls of his cave.
Side 254 - The poetic genius of my country found me, as the prophetic bard Elijah did Elisha, at the plough, and threw her inspiring mantle over me. She bade me sing the loves, the joys, the rural scenes and rural pleasures of my native soil, in my native tongue. I tuned my wild, artless notes, as she inspired.
Side 301 - But, fare you weel, auld Nickie-ben! O wad ye tak a thought an' men' ! Ye aiblins might — I dinna ken — • Still hae a stake — I'm wae to think upo' yon den, Ev'n for your sake ! THE DEATH AND DYING WORDS OF POOR MAILIE, THE AUTHOR'S ONLY PET YOWE.