The works of Robert Burns; with an account of his life, and a criticism on his writings, Band 11800 |
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... Hope , near Manchester Bayton Rev. W. S. Maple Durham , Hants Beddoes Dr. Bristol Broadhurst , Saml . esq . Chester Brodie Miss , Latham Brown Captain , 2 copies Brown Mr. James , Paisley Beetham Rev. Wm . Bunny , Brummell G. B. esq ...
... Hope , near Manchester Bayton Rev. W. S. Maple Durham , Hants Beddoes Dr. Bristol Broadhurst , Saml . esq . Chester Brodie Miss , Latham Brown Captain , 2 copies Brown Mr. James , Paisley Beetham Rev. Wm . Bunny , Brummell G. B. esq ...
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... Syme's modesty opposed a barrier to his assuming an office , for which he was in other respects peculiarly quali- fied . On this subject he consulted me ; and with the the hope of surmounting his objections , I offered him XX DEDICATION .
... Syme's modesty opposed a barrier to his assuming an office , for which he was in other respects peculiarly quali- fied . On this subject he consulted me ; and with the the hope of surmounting his objections , I offered him XX DEDICATION .
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Robert Burns. the hope of surmounting his objections , I offered him my assistance , but in vain . Endeavours were used to procure an editor in other quarters with- out effect . The task was beset with considerable difficulties , and men ...
Robert Burns. the hope of surmounting his objections , I offered him my assistance , but in vain . Endeavours were used to procure an editor in other quarters with- out effect . The task was beset with considerable difficulties , and men ...
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... hope very important , and they will be easily accounted for by those who know the circumstances under which this undertaking has been performed . Generous minds will re- ceive the posthumous works of Burns with can- dour , and even ...
... hope very important , and they will be easily accounted for by those who know the circumstances under which this undertaking has been performed . Generous minds will re- ceive the posthumous works of Burns with can- dour , and even ...
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... hope that they may sometimes recal to your mind the friend who ad- dresses you , and who bids you - most affection- ately - adieu ! LIVERPOOL , 1st May , 1800 . J. CURRIE . ADVERTISEMENT . The Editor begs to acknowledge the kindness of ...
... hope that they may sometimes recal to your mind the friend who ad- dresses you , and who bids you - most affection- ately - adieu ! LIVERPOOL , 1st May , 1800 . J. CURRIE . ADVERTISEMENT . The Editor begs to acknowledge the kindness of ...
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acquaintance Adventures of Telemachus affections afterwards appears Ayrshire banks bard beautiful Blind Harry brother Capt character charms circumstances composition conversation copies degree delicacy dialect ditto Dumfries Dunlop Edinburgh Ellisland English excellence farm father favourable Fochabers friendship genius Gilbert Burns give Glasgow Gordon habits happiness heart Highland honour house of Stewart humble humour imagination impression interesting Inverness Jamaica James Jedburgh John Kilmarnock kind labour lady letter lived Liverpool London Lord M'Intosh Manchester manners marriage Mauchline melancholy mentioned merch mind Murdoch muse nae-body nature never observations parish passion peasant perhaps persons pleasure poems poet poetical poetry powers procured racter Ramsay respect Robert Burns Robt rustic scenery scenes Scotland Scottish peasantry seemed sensibility sentiments situation society songs spirit sublime talents Tarbolton taste temper tenderness Thos thou tion verses virtue William Burnes writing
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Seite 87 - Then kneeling down, to Heaven's eternal King, The saint, the father, and the husband prays: Hope "springs exulting on triumphant wing," That thus they all shall meet in future days, There ever bask in uncreated rays, No more to sigh, or shed the bitter tear, Together hymning their Creator's praise. In such society, yet still more dear; While circling time moves round in an eternal sphere.
Seite 86 - Perhaps the Christian volume is the theme, How guiltless blood for guilty man was shed; How He, who bore in heaven the second name, Had not on earth whereon to lay his head; How his first followers and servants sped: The precepts sage they wrote to many a land: How he, who lone in Patmos banished, Saw in the sun a mighty angel stand; And heard great Babylon's doom pronounced by Heaven's command. Then, kneeling down to heaven's Eternal King, The saint, the father, and the husband prays; Hope springs...
Seite 86 - With Amalek's ungracious progeny; Or how the royal bard did groaning lie Beneath the stroke of heaven's avenging ire; Or, Job's pathetic plaint, and wailing cry; Or rapt Isaiah's wild, seraphic fire; Or other holy seers that tune the sacred lyre.
Seite 87 - And proffer up to heaven the warm request, That HE who stills the raven's clam'rous nest, And decks the lily fair in flow'ry pride, Would, in the way his wisdom sees the best, For them and for their little ones provide, But chiefly in their hearts with grace divine preside.
Seite 49 - Poesy was still a darling walk for my mind, but it was only indulged in according to the humour of the hour. I had usually half a dozen or more pieces on hand; I took up one or other, as it suited the momentary tone of the mind, and dismissed the work as it bordered, on fatigue. My passions, when once lighted up, raged like so many devils, till they got vent in rhyme; and then the conning over my verses, like a spell, soothed all into quiet!
Seite 85 - The sire turns o'er, wi' patriarchal grace, The big ha' Bible, ance his father's pride. His bonnet rev'rently is laid aside, His lyart haffets wearing thin an' bare ; Those strains that once did sweet in Zion glide, He wales a portion with judicious care ; And " Let us worship God !
Seite 43 - ... promises, kindly stepped in, and carried him away, to where the wicked cease from troubling and where the weary are at rest!
Seite 45 - The great misfortune of my life was — to want an aim. I had felt early some stirrings of ambition, but they were the blind gropings of Homer's Cyclops round the walls of his cave.
Seite 254 - The poetic genius of my country found me, as the prophetic bard Elijah did Elisha, at the plough, and threw her inspiring mantle over me. She bade me sing the loves, the joys, the rural scenes and rural pleasures of my native soil, in my native tongue. I tuned my wild, artless notes, as she inspired.
Seite 301 - But, fare you weel, auld Nickie-ben! O wad ye tak a thought an' men' ! Ye aiblins might — I dinna ken — • Still hae a stake — I'm wae to think upo' yon den, Ev'n for your sake ! THE DEATH AND DYING WORDS OF POOR MAILIE, THE AUTHOR'S ONLY PET YOWE.