The works of Robert Burns; with an account of his life, and a criticism on his writings, Том 21800 |
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... fortune among a class of men to whom my ideas would have been nonsense . I had meant that the book should have lain by me , in the fond hope , that some time or other , even after I was no more , my thoughts would fall into the hands of ...
... fortune among a class of men to whom my ideas would have been nonsense . I had meant that the book should have lain by me , in the fond hope , that some time or other , even after I was no more , my thoughts would fall into the hands of ...
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... fortunes , I composed the following , The wintry west extends his blast , & c . See vol . 111 , p . 171 . Shenstone finely observes , that love - verses writ without any real passion , are the most nauseous of all conceits ; and I have ...
... fortunes , I composed the following , The wintry west extends his blast , & c . See vol . 111 , p . 171 . Shenstone finely observes , that love - verses writ without any real passion , are the most nauseous of all conceits ; and I have ...
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... fortune , the loss of friends , and , worse than all , the loss of the woman he adored . Like you , all his consola- tion was his muse : she taught him in rustic measures to complain . Happy , could he have done it with your strength of ...
... fortune , the loss of friends , and , worse than all , the loss of the woman he adored . Like you , all his consola- tion was his muse : she taught him in rustic measures to complain . Happy , could he have done it with your strength of ...
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... fortune , while , all defenceless , I looked about in vain for a cover . It never occurred to me , at least , never with the force it deserv'd , that this world is a busy scene , and man , a creature destined : destined for a ...
... fortune , while , all defenceless , I looked about in vain for a cover . It never occurred to me , at least , never with the force it deserv'd , that this world is a busy scene , and man , a creature destined : destined for a ...
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... through the cloud of adverse fortune burst , Indignant , and in light unborrow'd blazed . Scotia from rude affliction shield thy bard , His heaven - taught numbers fame herself will guard . E. No. XVIII . To DR . MOORE . Edinburgh , ( 56 )
... through the cloud of adverse fortune burst , Indignant , and in light unborrow'd blazed . Scotia from rude affliction shield thy bard , His heaven - taught numbers fame herself will guard . E. No. XVIII . To DR . MOORE . Edinburgh , ( 56 )
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Сторінка 22 - There is scarcely any earthly object gives me more — I do not know if I should call it pleasure — but something which exalts me, something which enraptures me — than to walk in the sheltered side of a wood, or high plantation, in a cloudy winter day, and hear the stormy wind howling among the trees, and raving over the plain. It is my best season for devotion: my mind is wrapt up in a kind of enthusiasm to Him, who, in the pompous language of the Hebrew bard, ' walks on the wings of the wind.
Сторінка 293 - Still o'er these scenes my memory wakes, And fondly broods with miser care ; Time but the impression stronger makes, As streams their channels deeper wear.
Сторінка 200 - 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...
Сторінка 316 - Thy spirit, Independence, let me share ; ' " Lord of the Lion-heart and eagle eye ! " Thy steps I follow with my bosom bare, " Nor heed the storm that howls along the sky...
Сторінка 6 - Oh! happy state! when souls each other draw, When love is liberty, and nature law...
Сторінка 136 - The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and Nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the war of elements, The wreck of matter, and the crush of worlds.
Сторінка 209 - 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 209 - 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...
Сторінка 210 - I never hear the loud solitary whistle of the curlew in a summer noon, or the wild mixing cadence of a troop of gray plover in an autumnal morning, without feeling an elevation of soul like the enthusiasm of devotion or poetry.
Сторінка 278 - Mary! dear departed shade! Where is thy place of blissful rest? Seest thou thy lover lowly laid? Hear'st thou the groans that rend his breast?