The works of Robert Burns; with an account of his life, and a criticism on his writings, Band 21800 |
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... expression . To avoid there- fore the tediousness of such repetitions , it has been found necessary to mutilate many of the individual letters , and sometimes to exscind parts of great delicacy - the unbridled effusions of panegyric and ...
... expression . To avoid there- fore the tediousness of such repetitions , it has been found necessary to mutilate many of the individual letters , and sometimes to exscind parts of great delicacy - the unbridled effusions of panegyric and ...
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... expressions . In such instances his emendations have been adopted ; but in truth there are but five of the letters thus ... expression of the poet , even where his phraseology may seem to violate the delicacies of taste , or the idiom of ...
... expressions . In such instances his emendations have been adopted ; but in truth there are but five of the letters thus ... expression of the poet , even where his phraseology may seem to violate the delicacies of taste , or the idiom of ...
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... expression should perhaps escape me rather too warm for friendship , I hope you will pardon it in , my dear Miss dear expression for once . ) ( pardon me the No. No. V. To MR . JOHN MURDOCH , SCHOOLMASTER . ( 11 )
... expression should perhaps escape me rather too warm for friendship , I hope you will pardon it in , my dear Miss dear expression for once . ) ( pardon me the No. No. V. To MR . JOHN MURDOCH , SCHOOLMASTER . ( 11 )
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... expressions , in consi- deration of my admiration of the poems in general . If I may judge of the author's disposition from his works , with all the other good qualities of a poet , he he has not the irritable temper ascribed to that ...
... expressions , in consi- deration of my admiration of the poems in general . If I may judge of the author's disposition from his works , with all the other good qualities of a poet , he he has not the irritable temper ascribed to that ...
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... expression . Indeed the poetical beauties however original and brilliant , and lavishly scat- tered , are not all I admire in your works : the love of your native country , that feeling sensibility to all the objects of humanity , and ...
... expression . Indeed the poetical beauties however original and brilliant , and lavishly scat- tered , are not all I admire in your works : the love of your native country , that feeling sensibility to all the objects of humanity , and ...
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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?