The Life of Robert Burns: With a Criticism on His Writings ...William and Robert Chambers, 1838 - 76 sider |
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... thing in my disposition , and an enthusiastic idiot * piety . say idiot piety , because I was then but a child . Though it cost the schoolmaster some thrashings , I made an ex- cellent English scholar , and by the time I was ten or ...
... thing in my disposition , and an enthusiastic idiot * piety . say idiot piety , because I was then but a child . Though it cost the schoolmaster some thrashings , I made an ex- cellent English scholar , and by the time I was ten or ...
Side 13
... things by the name of follies . To the sons and daughters * [ In October 1837 , the editor conversed at Tarbolton with John Lees , shoemaker , who , when a stripling , used to act as Burns's second in his courting expeditions . The old ...
... things by the name of follies . To the sons and daughters * [ In October 1837 , the editor conversed at Tarbolton with John Lees , shoemaker , who , when a stripling , used to act as Burns's second in his courting expeditions . The old ...
Side 14
... thing which gave my mind a turn , was a friendship I formed with a young fellow , a very noble character , but a hapless son of misfortune . He was the son of a simple mechanic ; but a great man in the neighbourhood taking him under his ...
... thing which gave my mind a turn , was a friendship I formed with a young fellow , a very noble character , but a hapless son of misfortune . He was the son of a simple mechanic ; but a great man in the neighbourhood taking him under his ...
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... things , and told him that I could not guess who was the author of it , but that I thought it pretty clever . With a certain description of the clergy , as well as laity , it met with a roar of applause . * Holy Willie's Prayer next ...
... things , and told him that I could not guess who was the author of it , but that I thought it pretty clever . With a certain description of the clergy , as well as laity , it met with a roar of applause . * Holy Willie's Prayer next ...
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... thing in his power for our improvement . He sent us Pope's works , and some other poetry , the first that we had an opportunity of reading , excepting what is con- tained in the English Collection , and in the volume of the Edinburgh ...
... thing in his power for our improvement . He sent us Pope's works , and some other poetry , the first that we had an opportunity of reading , excepting what is con- tained in the English Collection , and in the volume of the Edinburgh ...
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acquaintance affections afterwards Allan Ramsay appears attention Ayrshire bard beautiful Blane Blind Harry brother Burns's character charms circumstances club composition conversation delicacy dialect Dr Currie Dumfries Dumfriesshire Edinburgh Ellisland English excelled farm father favour favourite feelings formed friendship genius Gilbert Burns give habits happiness heart Highland honour house of Stuart humble humour imagination interest Jean Jedburgh Jenny Geddes Kilmarnock kind Kirkoswald labour lady language letter lived manners marriage Mauchline Maybole melancholy ment mentioned mind Mossgiel Murdoch muse native nature never Nicol night observation occasion parish passion peasantry perhaps person pleasure poems poet poet's poetical poetry powers present racter Ramsay received recollect remarks respect Robert Burns rural rustic scenery scenes Scotland Scottish songs seemed sensibility sentiments Shanter sion situation society spirit superior talents Tarbolton taste tenderness thought tion verses virtue William Burnes writing young
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Side 31 - O 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...
Side 58 - When youthful Love, warm-blu.shing strong, Keen-shivering shot thy nerves along, Those accents, grateful to thy tongue, Th' adored Name, I taught thee how to pour in song, To soothe thy flame "I saw thy pulse's maddening play, Wild send thee Pleasure's devious way. Misled by Fancy's meteor ray, By Passion driven; But yet the light that led astray, Was light from Heaven.
Side 35 - I never saw such another eye in a human head, though I have seen the most distinguished men of my time. His conversation expressed perfect self-confidence, without the slightest presumption. Among the men who were the most learned of their time and country, he expressed himself with perfect firmness, but without the least intrusive forwardness; and when he differed in opinion, he did not hesitate to express it firmly, yet at the same time with modesty.
Side 31 - Thou ling'ring star, with less'ning ray, That lov'st to greet the early morn, Again thou usher'st in the day My Mary from my soul was torn. O 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?
Side 20 - 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...
Side 35 - Edinburgh, but had sense and feeling enough to be much interested in his poetry, and would have given the world to know him : but I had very little acquaintance with any literary people, and still less with the gentry of the west country, the two sets that he most frequented. Mr. Thomas Grierson was at that time a clerk of my father's. He knew Burns, and promised to ask him to his lodgings to dinner, but had no opportunity to keep his word ; otherwise I might have seen more of this distinguished...
Side 20 - The priest-like father reads the sacred page, How Abram was the friend of God on high ; Or, Moses bade eternal warfare wage 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 13 - I loved her. Indeed, I did not know myself why I liked so much to loiter behind with her, when returning in the evening from our labours ; why the tones of her voice made my heart-strings thrill like an /Eolian harp ; and particularly why my pulse beat such a furious rattan when I looked and fingered over her little hand, to pick out the cruel nettlestings and thistles. Among her other love-inspiring qualities, she sung sweetly ; and it was her favourite reel to which I attempted giving an embodied...
Side 15 - This sum came very seasonably, as I was thinking of indenting myself, for want of money to procure my passage. As soon as I was master of nine guineas, the price of wafting me to the torrid zone, I took a steerage passage in the first ship that was to sail from the Clyde, for " Hungry ruin had me in the wind.
Side 13 - Meditations, had formed the whole of my reading. The collection of songs was my vade mecum. I pored over them driving my cart, or walking to labour, song by song, verse by verse ; carefully noting the true tender, or sublime, from affectation and fustian. I am convinced I owe to this practice much of my critic craft, such as it is.