...names of his native land ; those who bear the honours and inherit the virtues of their ancestors ? The Poetic Genius of my Country found me, as the prophetic...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...

...names of his native land : those who bear the honours and inherit the virtues of their ancestors ? The poetic genius of my country found me, as the prophetic...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...

...mausoleum, the sculpture of which realizes the words of the poet on his first appearance as an author: "The poetic genius of my country found me, as the...the plough, and threw her inspiring mantle over me." SCOTCH WASHING. THE MOWING. THE clock has struck six, And the morning is fair, While the cast in red...

...mausoleum, the sculpture of which realizes the words of the poet on his first appearance as an author: "The poetic genius of my country found me, as the...the plough, and threw her inspiring mantle over me." . . ift~„ SCOTCH WASHING. THE MOWING. THE clock has struck six, . And the morning is fair, Wliilc...

...time, for one cannot sustain long the high fiight of imagination necessary to following their author. " The poetic genius 'of my country found me, as the...the PLOUGH, and threw her inspiring mantle over me. She bade me sing the lives, the joys, the rural scenes and rural pleasures, of my native soil in my...

...and his rustic compeers around him, in his and their native language." And in the Dedication — " The Poetic Genius of my country found me, as the prophetic...the Plough, and threw her inspiring Mantle over me. She bade me sing the loves, the joyr, the rural scenes aud rural pleasures of my native tongue : I...

...Nasmyth Portrait. Vignette — Sculpture in the interior of the Mausoleum, Dumfries. Inscribed — "The poetic genius of my country found me as the prophetic bard Elijah did Elisha — at the plough." — BURNS. Illustrations — The Poet's House at Dumfries, the Room where he died, and the Cottage...

...Vignette — Sculpture in the interior of the Mausolenm, Dumfries. Inscribed — " The poetic geniua of my country found me as the prophetic bard Elijah did Elisha — at the plough." — BURNS. Illustrations — The Poet's House at Dumfries, the Room where he died, and the Cottage...

...Nasmyth Portrait. Vignette—Sculpture in the interior of the Mausoleum, Dumfries. Inscribed—"The poetic genius of my country found me as the prophetic bard Elijah did Elisha—at the plough."—BURNS. Illustrations—The Poet's House at Dumfries, the Room where he died,...

...expression : in the dedication of his poems to the members of the Caledonian Hunt he observed, — " The poetic genius of my country found me as the prophetic bard Elijah did Elisha — at the plough." But this is Wesleytnisni, contrasted with Mr. Howitt's mode of religious illustration. And who was...