The British Prose Writers...J. Sharpe, 1819 |
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... mean consideration ) , who steals through the vale of life , amusing himself with every little flower that fortune throws in his way ; as he who , straining straight forward , and perhaps be- spattering all about him , gains some of ...
... mean consideration ) , who steals through the vale of life , amusing himself with every little flower that fortune throws in his way ; as he who , straining straight forward , and perhaps be- spattering all about him , gains some of ...
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... means the road to your good opi- nion . One feature of your character I shall ever with grateful pleasure remember - the reception I got when I had the honour of waiting on you at Stair . Miss A *** . I am little acquainted with ...
... means the road to your good opi- nion . One feature of your character I shall ever with grateful pleasure remember - the reception I got when I had the honour of waiting on you at Stair . Miss A *** . I am little acquainted with ...
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... mean any airs of affected modesty ; I am willing to believe that my abilities deserved some notice ; but in a most enlightened , informed age and nation , when poetry is and has been the study of men of the first natural genius , aided ...
... mean any airs of affected modesty ; I am willing to believe that my abilities deserved some notice ; but in a most enlightened , informed age and nation , when poetry is and has been the study of men of the first natural genius , aided ...
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... means pro- ceeded from want of respect . I feel , and ever shall feel , for you , the mingled sentiments of esteem for a friend , and reverence for a father . I thank you , sir , with all my soul , for your friend- ly hints ; though I ...
... means pro- ceeded from want of respect . I feel , and ever shall feel , for you , the mingled sentiments of esteem for a friend , and reverence for a father . I thank you , sir , with all my soul , for your friend- ly hints ; though I ...
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... means a solitary plea- sure . I want some one to laugh with me , some one to be grave with me , some one to please me and help my discrimination , with his or her own re- mark , and at times , no doubt , to admire my acute- ness and ...
... means a solitary plea- sure . I want some one to laugh with me , some one to be grave with me , some one to please me and help my discrimination , with his or her own re- mark , and at times , no doubt , to admire my acute- ness and ...
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Сторінка 113 - Go fetch to me a pint o' wine, An' 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 116 - JEolian harp, passive, takes the impression of the passing accident; or do these workings argue something within us above the trodden clod? I own myself partial to such proofs of those awful and important realities: a God that made all things, man's immaterial and immortal nature, and a world of weal or woe beyond death and the grave.
Сторінка 68 - Come, go to, I will be wise!" I read farming books; I calculated crops; I attended markets; and, in short, in spite of the devil, and the world, and the flesh, I believe I should have been a wise man; but the first year, from unfortunately buying bad seed, the second from a late harvest, we lost half our crops. This overset all my wisdom, and I returned "like the dog to his vomit, and the sow that was washed, to her wallowing in the mire.
Сторінка 57 - In my infant and boyish days, too, I owed much to an old woman who resided in the family, remarkable for her ignorance, credulity, and superstition. She had, I suppose, the largest collection in the country of tales and songs concerning devils, ghosts, fairies, brownies, witches, warlocks, spunkies, kelpies, elf-candles, dead-lights, wraiths, apparitions, cantraips, giants, enchanted towers, dragons, and other trumpery.
Сторінка 65 - I staid, I did nothing but craze the faculties of my soul about her, or steal out to meet her; and the two last nights of my stay in the country, had sleep been a mortal sin, the image of this modest and innocent girl had kept me guiltless.
Сторінка 77 - 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 60 - In short, she, altogether unwittingly to herself, initiated me in that delicious passion, which, in spite of acid disappointment, gin-horse prudence, and book-worm philosophy, I hold to be the first of human joys, our dearest blessing here below...
Сторінка 57 - I was a good deal noted for a retentive memory, a stubborn sturdy something in my disposition, and an enthusiastic idiot piety. I say idiot piety, because I was then but a child. Though it cost the schoolmaster some thrashings, I made an excellent English scholar ; and by the time I was ten or eleven years of age, I was u critic in substantives, verbs, and particles.
Сторінка 57 - This cultivated the latent seeds of poetry, but had so strong an effect on my imagination, that to this hour, in my nocturnal rambles, I sometimes keep a sharp lookout in suspicious places; and though nobody can be more sceptical than I am in such matters, yet it often takes an effort of philosophy to shake off these idle terrors.
Сторінка 69 - I resolved to publish my poems. I weighed my productions as impartially as was in my power ; I thought they had merit; and it was a delicious idea that I should be called a clever fellow, even though it should never reach my ears...