 | William Lawson (F.R.G.S.) - 1875 - 272 Seiten
...known verse, — " The child of misery baptised in tears." Burns seemed much affected by the print, and actually shed tears. He asked whose the lines were, and it chanced that nobody there knew except young Walter, who whispered to a friend that they occurred in a poem by Langhorne.... | |
 | Peter Freeland Aiken - 1876 - 468 Seiten
...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,...rather,. " the ideas which it suggested to his mind. He asked " whose the lines were, and it chanced that nobody but '' myself remembered that they occur in... | |
 | P. F. Aiken - 1876 - 454 Seiten
...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,...rather, " the ideas which it suggested to his mind. He asked " whose the lines were, and it chanced that nobody but •' myself remembered that they occur... | |
 | Literary curiosities - 1876 - 334 Seiten
...o'er her babe, her eye dissolved in de\v, The big drops, mingling with the milk he drew, Gave the sad presage of his future years,— The child of misery...baptized in tears." Burns seemed much affected by this print, or rather the ideas which it suggested to his mind. He actually shed tears. He asked whose... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1878 - 550 Seiten
...o'er her babe, her eye dissolved iu 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." So affected was Burns by the print, or by the lines, or by the ideas suggested by both, that he actually,... | |
 | John Campbell Shairp - 1879 - 232 Seiten
...o'er the 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. " Burns seemed much affected by the print : he actually shed tears. He asked whose the lines were, and it chanced that nobody but myself remembered... | |
 | 1880 - 814 Seiten
...vcare, The child of misery baptized In team.' " Burns seemed much afferted bv the print, or rather by the ideas which it suggested to his mind. He actually...asked whose the lines were, and it chanced that nobody bat mysslf remembered that they occur in a half -forgotten poem of Langhorne's called by the upromising... | |
 | 1880 - 812 Seiten
...o'er her babe, her eye dissolved in dew, The big drops min^lin? with the milk h3 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 actually shed tear.i. He asked whose the lines were,... | |
 | 1880 - 832 Seiten
...her babe, her eye dissolved in dew, The big drupe mingling with the milk he drew Gave the sad prosado 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. Ho actually shed tears. He asked whose the lines were,... | |
 | George Gilfillan - 1881 - 368 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 ! GIPSIES. FROM THE SAM K. The gipsy-race my pity rarely move; Yet their strong thirst of liberty I... | |
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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... 
