The works of Robert Burns; with an account of his life, and a criticism on his writings, Band 21800 |
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... Dear Burns , thou brother of my heart , Fair fa ' the bonest rustic swain , Fair fa ' your pen my dainty Rob , 358 267 254 104 Farewell thou fair day , thou green earth , and ye skies , 386 Go fetch to me a pint of wine , How does my dear ...
... Dear Burns , thou brother of my heart , Fair fa ' the bonest rustic swain , Fair fa ' your pen my dainty Rob , 358 267 254 104 Farewell thou fair day , thou green earth , and ye skies , 386 Go fetch to me a pint of wine , How does my dear ...
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... dear E. , that the pure genuine feelings of love , are as rare in the world as the pure genuine principles of virtue and piety . This I hope will account for the uncommon style of all my letters to you . By uncommon , I mean , their ...
... dear E. , that the pure genuine feelings of love , are as rare in the world as the pure genuine principles of virtue and piety . This I hope will account for the uncommon style of all my letters to you . By uncommon , I mean , their ...
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... dear , I often look up to the di- vine disposer of events , with an eye of gratitude for the blessing which I hope he intends to bestow on me , in bestowing you . I sincerely wish that he may bless my endeavours to make your life as ...
... dear , I often look up to the di- vine disposer of events , with an eye of gratitude for the blessing which I hope he intends to bestow on me , in bestowing you . I sincerely wish that he may bless my endeavours to make your life as ...
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... dear partner . No. II . TO THE SAME . MY DEAR E. I DO not remember in the course of your acquaintance and mine , ever to have heard your opinion on the ordinary way of falling in love , amongst people of our station of life : I do not ...
... dear partner . No. II . TO THE SAME . MY DEAR E. I DO not remember in the course of your acquaintance and mine , ever to have heard your opinion on the ordinary way of falling in love , amongst people of our station of life : I do not ...
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... dear E. it is a hard game such a one as you has to play when you meet with such a lover . You cannot refuse but he is sincere , and yet though you use him ever so favorably , perhaps in a few months , or at farthest in a year or two ...
... dear E. it is a hard game such a one as you has to play when you meet with such a lover . You cannot refuse but he is sincere , and yet though you use him ever so favorably , perhaps in a few months , or at farthest in a year or two ...
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Seite 22 - There is scarcely any earthly object gives me more — I do not know if I should call it pleasure — but something which exalts me, something which enraptures me — than to walk in the sheltered side of a wood, or high plantation, in a cloudy winter day, and hear the stormy wind howling among the trees, and raving over the plain. It is my best season for devotion: my mind is wrapt up in a kind of enthusiasm to Him, who, in the pompous language of the Hebrew bard, ' walks on the wings of the wind.
Seite 293 - Still o'er these scenes my memory wakes, And fondly broods with miser care ; Time but the impression stronger makes, As streams their channels deeper wear.
Seite 200 - Go fetch to me a pint o' wine, And fill it in a silver tassie; That I may drink before I go A service to my bonnie lassie...
Seite 316 - Thy spirit, Independence, let me share ; ' " Lord of the Lion-heart and eagle eye ! " Thy steps I follow with my bosom bare, " Nor heed the storm that howls along the sky...
Seite 6 - Oh! happy state! when souls each other draw, When love is liberty, and nature law...
Seite 136 - The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and Nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the war of elements, The wreck of matter, and the crush of worlds.
Seite 209 - I was here airing myself on the tops of the mountains, I fell into a profound contemplation on the vanity of human life; and, passing from one thought to another, surely, said I, man is but a shadow and life a dream.
Seite 209 - Bagdat in order to pass the rest of the day in meditation and prayer. As I was here airing myself on the tops of the mountains, I fell into a profound contemplation on the vanity of human life; and, passing from one thought to another, surely...
Seite 210 - I never hear the loud solitary whistle of the curlew in a summer noon, or the wild mixing cadence of a troop of gray plover in an autumnal morning, without feeling an elevation of soul like the enthusiasm of devotion or poetry.
Seite 278 - 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?