 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1882 - 424 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...He asked whose the lines were, and it chanced that nohody hut myself remembered that they occur in a half-forgotten poem of Langhorne's, called by the... | |
 | Mrs. Oliphant (Margaret) - 1882 - 416 Seiten
...which endless reading had given him. Burns had admired certain verses attached to an engraving : " He asked whose the lines were, and it chanced that nobody but myself remembered that they occur in a half -forgotten poem of Langhorne's, called by the unpromising title of the ' Justice of Peace.' I... | |
 | Addison Peale Russell - 1883 - 378 Seiten
...'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. There was a strong expression of sense and shrewdness in all his lineaments... | |
 | 1883 - 528 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...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... | |
 | 1883 - 778 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...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... | |
 | Maude Gillette Phillips - 1885 - 648 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... | |
 | Maude Gillette Phillips - 1885 - 614 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... | |
 | Edward Everett Hale - 1887 - 632 Seiten
...The child of misery, baptized in tears.' " Burns seemed much affected by the print, or, rather, by the ideas which it suggested to his mind. He actually shed tears. He asked whoso the lines were, and it chanced that nobody but myself remembered that they occur in a halfforgotten... | |
 | 1892 - 130 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 BURNS' DUMFRIES MONUMENT. to his mind. He actually shed tears. He asked... | |
 | William S. Walsh - 1892 - 1116 Seiten
...o'er her babe, her eye dissolved in dew. The big drops mingling with the milk he drew Gave the sad 1 s _ c n _ W f nf- Q& U " D t 0߰ _X o ?}EQ e YbW = ^ The Country Justice, Part i. This allusion to the dead soldier and his widow on the field of battle... | |
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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... 
