 | 1845 - 440 Seiten
...inherit the virtues of their Ancestors? The Poetic Genius of my Country found me, as the prophetic hard Elijah did Elisha — at the plough ; and threw her inspiring mantle over me. She hade me sing the loves, the joys, the rural scenes and rural pleasures of my native soil, in my native... | |
 | percy b. st. john - 1846 - 436 Seiten
...station than even Allan Ramsay, inspiration dawned upon him. To use his own words : " The poetic genins of my country found me as the prophetic bard Elijah...and rural pleasures of my native soil, in my native tonue; I tuned my wild artless notes as she nspired." Burns' history is too well known for us to enlarge... | |
 | E. Harmon - 1846 - 122 Seiten
...did Elisha — &t the plough ; and through her inspiring mantle over me. She bade me sing the lovs, the joys, the rural scenes and rural pleasures, of my native soil, in my native tongue. I tuned my wild ar£ less notes, as she inspired — she -whispered me to kerne to this ansient metropolis... | |
 | Robert Burns, James Currie - 1847 - 704 Seiten
...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...bade me sing the loves, the joys, the rural scenes »nd rural pleasures of my native soil in my native tongue. I tuned my wild, artless notes as she inspired.... | |
 | William Howitt - 1847 - 524 Seiten
...of throwing her mantle, embroidered with Scotch thistles, over him, according to his own words — " The poetic genius of my country found me, as the prophetic...the plough, and threw her inspiring mantle over me." Burns stands with his left hand on one of the plough stilts, and with the other holds his bonnet to... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1851 - 332 Seiten
...illustrious 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...pleasures of my native soil, in my native tongue. I tuned my wild, artless notes, as she inspired. Sho whispered me to come to this ancient metropolis... | |
 | Michigan State Agricultural Society - 1851 - 716 Seiten
...the muse and learned to strike her tuneful lyre while his hand held the plow. In bis own language — "The poetic genius of my country found me, (as the prophetic bard Elijah did Elisha,) at the plow, and threw her inspiring mantle over me." And whether he drew his inspiration from the green fields... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1852 - 336 Seiten
...illustrious 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...pleasures of my native soil, in my native tongue. I tuned my wild, artless notes, as she inspired. She whispered me to come to this ancient metropolis... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1854 - 342 Seiten
...illustrious 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...pleasures of my native soil, in my native tongue. I tuned my wild, artless notes, as she inspired. She whispered me to come to this ancient metropolis... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1854 - 520 Seiten
...illustrious names of his native land ; those who bear the honors and inherit the virtues of their ancestors ? The poetic genius of my country found me, as the prophetic...pleasures, of my native soil, in my native tongue; I tuned my wild, artless notes, as she inspired. She whispered me to come to this ancient metropolis... | |
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The poetic genius of my country found me, as the prophetic bard Elijah did Elisha, at 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 native tongue.... 
