 | 1828 - 722 Seiten
...o'er her babe, her eye dissolved in dew, The big drops mingling with the milk he drew, Gave the sad presage of his future years, The child of misery baptized...Burns seemed much affected by the print, or rather by the ideas which it suggested to his mind. He actuallv shed tears. He asked whose the lines were,... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 278 Seiten
...o'er her babe, her eye dissolved in dew, The big drops mingling with the milk he drew, Gave the sad presage of his future years, The child of misery, baptized in tears! O Edward, here thy fairest laurels fade ! And thy long glories darken into shade. While yet the palms... | |
 | sir Samuel Egerton Brydges (bart.) - 1822 - 180 Seiten
...o'er her babe , her eye dissolved in dew , The big drops mingling wilh the milk he drew , Gave the sad presage of his future years , The child of Misery , baptized in tears ! » — I cannot account for the momentary inspiration , by which one, who is in general an affected... | |
 | 1828 - 268 Seiten
...minerling with the milk lie drew, Gave the sad presage of his future yean, The child of misery baptised in tears.' ' Burns seemed much affected by the print,...it chanced that nobody but myself remembered that tliey occur in a half-forgotten poem of Langhorne's, called by the unpromising title of " The Justice... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1830 - 340 Seiten
...o'er her babe, her eye dissolved in dew, The big drops mingling with the milk he drew, Gave the s;ul presage of his future years, The child of misery baptized in tears. ' " Burn* seemed much affected by the print, or rather the ideas which it suggested to his mind. He... | |
 | 1835 - 842 Seiten
...ideas suggested to his mind upon reading the story whereof, (written under it) he was moved even to tears. He asked whose the lines were ? and it chanced...nobody but myself remembered that they occur in a half forgotten poem of Langhornc's. I passed this information to Burns by a friend, and I was rewarded... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1837 - 324 Seiten
...o'er her babe, her eye dissolved in dew, The big drops mingling with the milk he drew, Gave the sad presage of his future years, The child of misery baptized...nobody but myself remembered that they occur in a half- forgotten poem of Langhorne's, called by the unpromising title of ' The Justice of the Peace.'... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1837 - 610 Seiten
...o'er her babe, her eye dissolved in dew, The big drops mingling with the milk he drew, Gave the sad presage of his future years, The child of misery baptized...mind. He actually shed tears. He asked whose the lines wefe, and it chanced that nobody but myself remembered that they occur in a half-forgotten poem of... | |
 | Robert Burns, John Gibson Lockhart - 1837 - 628 Seiten
...tears." " Burns seemed mucli affected by the print, or rathef the idea« which it suggested to Iris mind. He actually shed tears. He asked whose the lines were, and it chanced that nobody hut myself remembered that they occur in a half-forgotten poem of Langhorne's, called by the unpromising... | |
 | James Currie - 1838 - 92 Seiten
...drops'mingling with the milk he drew, >. Gave the sad presage of his future years, The child of misery baptised in tears.' Burns seemed much affected by the print,...mind. He actually shed tears. He asked whose the lines wero, and it chanced that nobody but myself remembered that they occur in a half-forgotten poem of... | |
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Cold on Canadian hills or Minden's plain, Perhaps that parent wept her soldier slain ; Bent o'er her babe, her eye dissolved in dew, The big drops mingling with the milk he drew, Gave the sad presage of his future years, The child of misery baptized in... 
