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... poems . You have near you the walk by the river where , in his transport , he passed his wife and children without seeing them , " his brow flushed and his eyes shining " with the lustre of " Tam o ' Shanter . " " I wish you had but ...
... poems . You have near you the walk by the river where , in his transport , he passed his wife and children without seeing them , " his brow flushed and his eyes shining " with the lustre of " Tam o ' Shanter . " " I wish you had but ...
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... poems are enshrined . That is a part of Scotland's debt to Burns . But this is much more than a Scottish demonstration ; it is a collection of representa- tives from all quarters of the globe to own a common allegiance and a common ...
... poems are enshrined . That is a part of Scotland's debt to Burns . But this is much more than a Scottish demonstration ; it is a collection of representa- tives from all quarters of the globe to own a common allegiance and a common ...
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... poems all night , and his admirers would still declare that I had omitted the best passages . I know that pro- fuse quotation is a familiar form of a Burns speech ; but I am afraid to begin lest I should not end , and I am sure that I ...
... poems all night , and his admirers would still declare that I had omitted the best passages . I know that pro- fuse quotation is a familiar form of a Burns speech ; but I am afraid to begin lest I should not end , and I am sure that I ...
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... for everybody in Burns . He has a heart even for vermin ; he has pity even for the arch - enemy of mankind . And his universality makes his poems a treasure- house in which all may find what they want . 57 ROBERT BURNS.
... for everybody in Burns . He has a heart even for vermin ; he has pity even for the arch - enemy of mankind . And his universality makes his poems a treasure- house in which all may find what they want . 57 ROBERT BURNS.
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... poems ; some maintain that his life must be read into his works , and here again some think that his life damns his while others aver that his poems poems , cannot be fully appreciated without his life . Another school thinks that his ...
... poems ; some maintain that his life must be read into his works , and here again some think that his life damns his while others aver that his poems poems , cannot be fully appreciated without his life . Another school thinks that his ...
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Page 92 - Whenever I read a book or a passage that particularly pleased me, in which a thing was said or an effect rendered with propriety, in which there was either some conspicuous force or some happy distinction in the style, I must sit down at once and set myself to ape that quality. I was unsuccessful, and I knew it; and tried again, and was again unsuccessful and always unsuccessful; but at least in these vain bouts, 1 got some practice in rhythm, in harmony, in construction and the co-ordination of...
Page 297 - Witch. WHEN shall we three meet again, In thunder, lightning, or in rain ? 2 Witch.
Page 42 - WHY am I loth to leave this earthly scene ? Have I so found it full of pleasing charms ? Some drops of joy with draughts of ill between; Some gleams -of sunshine 'mid renewing storms. Is it departing pangs my soul alarms ; Or death's unlovely, dreary, dark abode ? For guilt, for guilt, my terrors are in arms ; I tremble to approach an angry God, And justly smart beneath his sin-avenging rod. Fain would I say, Forgive my foul offence...
Page 59 - I knew a very wise man so much of Sir Christopher's sentiment, that he believed if a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who should make the laws of a nation.
Page 55 - All the faculties of Burns's mind were, as far as I could judge, equally vigorous; and his predilection for poetry was rather the result of his own enthusiastic and impassioned temper, than of a genius exclusively adapted to that species of composition. From his conversation I should have pronounced him to be fitted to excel in whatever walk of ambition he had chosen to exert his abilities.
Page 155 - ... affords no news, no subject of entertainment or amusement, for fine men of wit and pleasure about town understand not the language, and taste not the pleasures of the inanimate world. My flatterers here are all mutes. The oaks, the beeches, the chestnuts, seem to contend which best shall please the lord of the manor. They cannot deceive, they will not lie.
Page 14 - ... her, — and the abominable scene of 1789, which I was describing, — did draw tears from me, and wetted my paper. These tears came again into my eyes, almost as often as I looked at the description ; they may again.
Page 54 - Many others, perhaps, may have ascended to prouder heights in the region of Parnassus, but none certainly ever outshone Burns in the charms, the sorcery, I would almost call it, of fascinating conversation, the spontaneous eloquence of social argument, or the unstudied poignancy of brilliant repartee...
Page 56 - I recollect once," said Dugald Stewart, speaking of Burns, " he told me, when I was admiring a distant prospect in one of our morning walks, that the sight of so many smoking cottages gave a pleasure to his mind which none could understand who had not witnessed, like himself, the happiness and worth which they contained.