Robert BurnsHarper, 1879 - 205 من الصفحات |
طبعات أخرى - عرض جميع المقتطفات
عبارات ومصطلحات مألوفة
acquaintance admiration afterwards Allan Cunningham appeared auld Ayrshire ballads banks beautiful Blair Blair Castle brother Burns Burns's called Castle Chambers character composed Cotter's Saturday Night Dalswinton doubt Dugald Stewart Dumfries Dunlop Ecclefechan Edinburgh Ellisland epistles Excise expressed farm farmer father feeling Friars Carse gave Gavin Hamilton genius Gordon Castle heart Highland hope Jean Jenny Geddes kind Kirkoswald ladies laird letters lived Lockhart look Lord Mary Mauchline mind mood Mossgiel nature never Nicol Nith Nithsdale once passed peasantry ploughman poems poet poet's poetic poetry political poor pride Riddel Robert Robert Burns says Scot Scotland Scots wha hae Scott Scottish Scottish songs seems seen sentiment Shanter society soon soul spirit thee things Thomson thou thought tion told tour turned verse whole wife words writing written wrote young
مقاطع مشهورة
الصفحة 176 - ... Misfortune's bitter storms Around thee blaw, around thee blaw, Thy bield should be my bosom, To share it a', to share it a'. Or were I in the wildest waste, Sae black and bare, sae black and bare, The desert were a paradise, If thou wert there, if thou wert there : Or were I monarch o' the globe, Wi' thee to reign, wi" thee to reign, The brightest jewel in my crown Wad be my queen, wad be my queen.
الصفحة 113 - Ye banks and braes and streams around The castle o' Montgomery, Green be your woods, and fair your flowers, Your waters never drumlie ! There simmer first unfauld her robes, And there the langest tarry ; For there I took the last fareweel O
الصفحة 108 - Ilk happing bird, wee, helpless thing ! That, in the merry months o' spring, Delighted me to hear thee sing, What comes o...
الصفحة 12 - Yestreen when to the trembling string The dance gaed thro' the lighted ha', To thee my fancy took its wing, I sat, but neither heard nor saw : Tho' this was fair, and that was braw, And yon the toast of a' the town, 1 sigh'd, and said amang them a',
الصفحة 123 - Thou minds me o' the happy days, When my fause luve was true. Thou'll break my heart, thou bonnie bird, That sings beside thy mate ; For sae I sat, and sae I sang, And wist na o
الصفحة 188 - The poor inhabitant below Was quick to learn and wise to know, And keenly felt the friendly glow, And softer flame ; But thoughtless follies laid him low, And stain'd his name ! Reader, attend ! whether thy soul Soars fancy's flights beyond the pole, Or darkling grubs this earthly hole, In low pursuit ; Know, prudent, cautious, self-control Is wisdom's root.
الصفحة 52 - Burns's manner, was the effect produced upon him by a print of Bunbury's, representing a soldier lying dead on the snow, his dog sitting in misery on one side, — on the other, his widow, with a child in her arms.
الصفحة 176 - I'd shelter thee, I'd shelter thee. Or did misfortune's bitter storms Around thee blaw, around thee blaw, Thy bield should be my bosom, To share it a', to share it a'.
الصفحة 8 - I loved her. Indeed, I did not know myself why I liked so much to loiter behind with her, when returning in the evening from our...
الصفحة 107 - ... and their sufferings in the pitiless storm ! I thought me on the ourie cattle, Or silly sheep, wha bide this brattle O' wintry war, Or thro' the drift, deep-lairing, sprattle, Beneath a scaur. Ilk happing bird, wee helpless thing, That in the merry months o' spring Delighted me to hear thee sing, What comes o