The Works of Robert Burns: With an Account of His Life, and a Criticism on His Writings, to which are Prefixed Some Observations on the Character and Condition of the Scottish Peasantry, 第 1 卷T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1820 |
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... . The addition of two more authors to my library gave me great pleasure ; Sterne and McKenzie - Tristram Shandy and The Man of Feeling were my bosom favorites . Poesy was still still a darling walk for my mind , but it 48 THE LIFE OF.
... . The addition of two more authors to my library gave me great pleasure ; Sterne and McKenzie - Tristram Shandy and The Man of Feeling were my bosom favorites . Poesy was still still a darling walk for my mind , but it 48 THE LIFE OF.
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... feelings on this occasion were of the most distracting nature , and the impression of sorrow was not effaced , till by a regular marriage they were indissolubly united . In the state of mind which this separation pro- duced , he wished ...
... feelings on this occasion were of the most distracting nature , and the impression of sorrow was not effaced , till by a regular marriage they were indissolubly united . In the state of mind which this separation pro- duced , he wished ...
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... feelings of the writer , before his name was known to the public . * " I cannot * This poem is as follows : This wot ye all whom it concerns , I Rhymer Robin , alias Burns , October twenty - third , A ne'er - to - be - forgotten day ...
... feelings of the writer , before his name was known to the public . * " I cannot * This poem is as follows : This wot ye all whom it concerns , I Rhymer Robin , alias Burns , October twenty - third , A ne'er - to - be - forgotten day ...
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... feelings , when his ambition aimed at no higher an object than the station of an exciseman or gauger in his own country . " His manners were then , as they continued ever These lines will be read with no common interest by all who ...
... feelings , when his ambition aimed at no higher an object than the station of an exciseman or gauger in his own country . " His manners were then , as they continued ever These lines will be read with no common interest by all who ...
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... expected from his station in life . He ascribed much of his own principles and feelings , to the early impressions he had received from his instruc- tions and example . I recollect that he once applied tions ROBERT BURNS . 143.
... expected from his station in life . He ascribed much of his own principles and feelings , to the early impressions he had received from his instruc- tions and example . I recollect that he once applied tions ROBERT BURNS . 143.
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第 84 頁 - 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...
第 307 頁 - And wear thou this' — she solemn said, And bound the Holly round my head : The polish'd leaves, and berries red, Did rustling play; And, like a passing thought, she fled In light away.
第 125 頁 - I forget the hallowed grove, Where by the winding Ayr we met, To live one day of parting love ! Eternity will not efface Those records dear of transports past ; Thy image at our last embrace ; Ah ! little thought we 'twas our last ! Ayr gurgling kissed his pebbled shore, O'erhung with wild woods, thickening, green ; The fragrant birch, and hawthorn hoar, Twined amorous round the raptured scene.
第 83 頁 - 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.
第 125 頁 - 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?
第 84 頁 - And decks the lily fair in flowery 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.
第 83 頁 - They chant their artless notes in simple guise; They tune their hearts, by far the noblest aim : Perhaps ' Dundee's ' wild warbling measures rise, Or plaintive *• Martyrs...
第 38 頁 - This cultivated the latent seeds of poetry, but had so strong an effect on my imagination, that to this hour, in my nocturnal rambles, I sometimes keep a sharp lookout in suspicious places; and though nobody can be more sceptical than I am in such matters, yet it often takes an effort of philosophy to shake off these idle terrors.
第 55 頁 - I had been for some days skulking from covert to covert, under all the terrors of a jail ; as some ill-advised people had uncoupled the merciless pack of the law at my heels. I had taken the last farewell of my few friends; my chest was on the road to Greenock ; I had composed the last song I should ever measure in Caledonia, The gloomy night is gathering fast * when a letter from Dr.
第 42 頁 - ... when I looked and fingered over her little hand to pick out the cruel nettle-stings and thistles. Among her other loveinspiring qualities, she sung sweetly ; and it was her favourite reel to which I attempted giving an embodied vehicle in rhyme.