 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1902 - 554 Seiten
...the milk be drew, Gave the sad presage of bis future years, The child of misery baptized in team.' Burns seemed much affected by the print, or rather...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.... | |
 | Manchester Geographical Society - 1902 - 282 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.' BUI-JIB seemed much affected by the ideas the print suggested to hie mind, so much so that the tears... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1903 - 182 Seiten
...The child of misery baptised in tearsi' 48. "Burns seemed much affected by the print, or rather by 15 the ideas which it suggested to his mind. He actually...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 whispered... | |
 | Alfred Ainger - 1905 - 436 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, or rather, the ideas it suggested to his mind. He actually shed tears. He asked whose the lines were, and it chanced that... | |
 | W. T. Fyfe - 1906 - 358 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 actually shed tears. He asked whose the lines were,... | |
 | Dugald Butler - 1906 - 448 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... | |
 | Old Edinburgh Club - 1919 - 378 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,...to his mind. He actually shed tears. He asked whose lines they were, and it chanced that nobody but myself remembered that they occur in a half-forgotten... | |
 | Robert Maynard Leonard - 1909 - 636 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. J. LANGHORNE (The Country Justice). 580. UNCONSCIOUS CEREBRATION SAY not that the past is dead. ! Lending... | |
 | John Alexander Joyce - 1910 - 156 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 actually shed tears. He asked whose the lines were;... | |
 | Edwin Watts Chubb - 1910 - 442 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... | |
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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... 
