The Life of Robert BurnsG. Bell, 1882 - 349 من الصفحات |
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acquaintance addressed admiration afterwards Allan Cunningham appears auld Ayrshire bard beautiful Blair brother Burns's celebrated character charms circumstances composed conversation correspondence Cromek Currie Currie's dear death delight doubt Dugald Stewart Dumfries Dunlop early Edinburgh edition Elliesland Epistle Excise fancy farm father favour favourite feelings Gavin Hamilton genius Gilbert Burns Greenock hand heart Highland honour humble Irvine James Jean Jenny Geddes John Kilmarnock kind Kirkoswald labours lady letter lived Lockhart manners Mary Mauchline mind Mossgiel Muses never noble occasion parish passion perhaps period person piece pleasure poems poet poet's poetical poetry political published reader remarkable residence Robert Burns Robert Chambers says scenes Scotch Scotland Scottish sentiments Shanter Sir Walter Scott society song spirit stanzas talents Tarbolton Thomson thou thought tion took verses Walker wife William Burnes wish writing young youth
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الصفحة 194 - 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.
الصفحة 95 - My Mary's asleep by thy murmuring stream, Flow gently, sweet Afton...
الصفحة 274 - 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.
الصفحة 178 - To make a happy fire-side clime To weans and wife, That's the true pathos and sublime Of human life.
الصفحة 269 - ... ability of conjuring up in himself passions, which are indeed far from being the same as those produced by real events, yet...
الصفحة 112 - Burns seemed much affected by the print, or rather the ideas which it suggested to his mind. He actually shed tears. He asked whose the lines were, and it chanced that nobody but myself remembered that they occur in a half-forgotten poem of Langhorne's called by the unpromising title of 'The Justice of the Peace'.
الصفحة 181 - Is ever wi' my Jean. I see her in the dewy flowers, I see her sweet and fair : I hear her in the tunefu...
الصفحة 111 - I may truly say, Virgilium vidi tantum. I was a lad of fifteen in 1786-7, when he came first to Edinburgh, but had sense and feeling enough to be much interested in his poetry, and would have given the world to know him; but I had very little acquaintance with any literary people, and still less with the gentry of the west country, the two sets that he most frequented. Mr. Thomas Grierson was at that time a clerk of my father's. He knew Burns, and promised to ask him to his lodgings to dinner, but...
الصفحة 7 - 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 a critic in substantives, verbs, and particles.
الصفحة 112 - Cold on Canadian hills, or Minden's plain, Perhaps that mother wept her soldier slain ; Bent o'er her babe, her eye dissolved in dew, The big drops mingling with the milk he drew, Gave the sad presage of his future years, The child of misery baptized in tears.