The Works of Robert Burns: General correspondence, including pieces of miscellaneous poetryT. Cadell and W. Davies, 1806 |
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... live , to commence farm- er . I do not intend to give up poetry : being bred to labour secures me independence ; and the muses are my chief , sometimes have been my only , enjoyment . If my practice second my resolution , I shall have ...
... live , to commence farm- er . I do not intend to give up poetry : being bred to labour secures me independence ; and the muses are my chief , sometimes have been my only , enjoyment . If my practice second my resolution , I shall have ...
Сторінка 81
... wish the offers to be made you there may answer ; as I am per- suaded you will not easily find a more generous and better hearted proprietor to live under than VOL . II . G Mr. Mr. Miller . When you return , if you come 81.
... wish the offers to be made you there may answer ; as I am per- suaded you will not easily find a more generous and better hearted proprietor to live under than VOL . II . G Mr. Mr. Miller . When you return , if you come 81.
Сторінка 95
... sweet inheritance Of my fathers , May I and mine live in peace , And die in joyful hope ! These inscriptions , and the translations , are in the hand - writing of Mr. Ramsay . E. which he is engaged of much importance , un- less 95.
... sweet inheritance Of my fathers , May I and mine live in peace , And die in joyful hope ! These inscriptions , and the translations , are in the hand - writing of Mr. Ramsay . E. which he is engaged of much importance , un- less 95.
Сторінка 109
... live as he did ! if you do , you can never be un- happy . I feel myself grown serious all at once , and affected in a manner I cannot describe . I shall only add , that it is one of the greatest pleasures I promise myself before I die ...
... live as he did ! if you do , you can never be un- happy . I feel myself grown serious all at once , and affected in a manner I cannot describe . I shall only add , that it is one of the greatest pleasures I promise myself before I die ...
Сторінка 121
... live by , with so small a stock , I shall lodge this sum in a banking - house , a sacred de- posit excepting only the calls of uncommon dis- tress or necessitous old age ; ** These , my lord , are my views : I have re- solved from the ...
... live by , with so small a stock , I shall lodge this sum in a banking - house , a sacred de- posit excepting only the calls of uncommon dis- tress or necessitous old age ; ** These , my lord , are my views : I have re- solved from the ...
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acquaintance admired Anno Domini Ayrshire ballad bard beautiful believe Blacklock bosom character charming compliments copy criticisms dare DEAR SIR Dumfries DUNLOP Earl Earl granted Earl of Glencairn Earl of Mar Edinburgh Ellisland esteem fame fancy fate favour favourite feel Fergusson Fintry follies fortune friendship genius gentleman give grateful gratitude happy hear heart honest hope House of Stewart human humble servant idea inclosed kind lady late letter lord lordship Lowrie Madam mankind Mauchline meer common merit mind Miss MOORE muse native nature never noble obliging Omeron patronage perhaps perusal pleased pleasure poems poet poetic poetry poor pride Reverend rhyme ROBERT BURNS Robert Fergusson Scotland Scottish sent sentiment shew sincerely song soon soul stanzas Stewart taste tell thee thing thou thought tion truly tune verses virtue wish write
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Сторінка 63 - No sculptured marble here, nor pompous lay, 'No storied urn nor animated bust;' This simple stone directs pale Scotia's way To pour her sorrows o'er her poet's dust.
Сторінка 253 - Man, this is one of the most extraordinary, that he shall go on from day to day, from week to week, from month to month...
Сторінка 197 - I have some favourite flowers in spring, among which are the mountain-daisy, the hare-bell, the fox-glove, the wild-brier rose, the budding birch, and the hoary hawthorn, that I view and hang over with particular delight.
Сторінка 447 - ... disfigure them, are yet, I am convinced, original and component parts of the human soul ; those senses of the mind, if I may be allowed the expression, which connect us with, and link us to, those awful obscure realities — an allpowerful, and equally beneficent God ; and a world to come, beyond death and the grave.
Сторінка 196 - Bagdat in order to pass the rest of the day in meditation and prayer. As I was here airing myself on the tops of the mountains, I fell into a profound contemplation on the vanity of human life; and, passing from one thought to another, surely, said I, man is but a shadow and life a dream.
Сторінка 11 - I believe, may be partly owing to my misfortunes giving my mind a melancholy cast : but there is something even in the ' Mighty tempest, and the hoary waste, Abrupt, and deep stretch'd o'er the buried earth," which raises the mind to a serious sublimity favourable to every thing great and noble.
Сторінка 190 - Go fetch to me a pint o' wine, And fill it in a silver tassie, That I may drink, before I go, A service to my bonnie lassie. The boat rocks at the pier o...
Сторінка 319 - As cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country.
Сторінка 329 - Coffins stood round, like open presses, That shaw'd the dead in their last dresses; And, by some devilish...
Сторінка 448 - THESE, as they change, ALMIGHTY FATHER, these Are but the varied God. The rolling year Is full of THEE. Forth in the pleasing Spring THY beauty walks, THY tenderness and love. Wide flush the fields ; the softening air is balm ; Echo the mountains round ; the forest smiles ; And every sense, and every heart is joy. Then comes THY glory in the Summer months, With light and heat refulgent. Then THY sun...