The Works of Robert Burns: General correspondence, including pieces of miscellaneous poetryT. Cadell and W. Davies, 1806 |
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... look to the west when I gae to rest , Inhuman man ! curse on thy barb'rous art , · Life ne'er exulted in so rich a prize , Like the fair plant that from our touch withdraws , My Mary , dear departed shade ! No sculptur'd marble here ...
... look to the west when I gae to rest , Inhuman man ! curse on thy barb'rous art , · Life ne'er exulted in so rich a prize , Like the fair plant that from our touch withdraws , My Mary , dear departed shade ! No sculptur'd marble here ...
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... look the height of their elevation , but condescend as sweetly as did Mrs. Stewart of Stair . * * The song inclosed is that given in the Life of our Poet ; beginning , " Twas e'en - the dewy fields were green , & c . The lass o ...
... look the height of their elevation , but condescend as sweetly as did Mrs. Stewart of Stair . * * The song inclosed is that given in the Life of our Poet ; beginning , " Twas e'en - the dewy fields were green , & c . The lass o ...
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... look he gazed ; Then 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. XIV . TO THE ...
... look he gazed ; Then 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. XIV . TO THE ...
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... look at the date of your kind letter , my heart reproaches me severely with ingratitude in neglecting so long to answer it . I will not trouble you with any account , by way of apology , of my hurried life and dis- tracted attention ...
... look at the date of your kind letter , my heart reproaches me severely with ingratitude in neglecting so long to answer it . I will not trouble you with any account , by way of apology , of my hurried life and dis- tracted attention ...
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... look at some of Mr. Mil- ler's farms . I heartily 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 ...
... look at some of Mr. Mil- ler's farms . I heartily 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 ...
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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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Seite 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.
Seite 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...
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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...
Seite 319 - As cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country.
Seite 329 - Coffins stood round, like open presses, That shaw'd the dead in their last dresses; And, by some devilish...
Seite 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...