Appreciations and AddressesJ. Lane, 1899 - 344 pages |
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... thing , true or false , connected with the memory of a national hero is dear , and who , without the faintest effort or stress of degluti- tion , can swallow every legend and every tradition that is associated with their favourite hero ...
... thing , true or false , connected with the memory of a national hero is dear , and who , without the faintest effort or stress of degluti- tion , can swallow every legend and every tradition that is associated with their favourite hero ...
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... 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 ...
... 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 ...
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... thing which no one has suggested , and that is an addition to our Edinburgh statues . It is a great thing that we should be able to walk about Edinburgh and see illustrious names on pedestals and something to commemorate them on these ...
... thing which no one has suggested , and that is an addition to our Edinburgh statues . It is a great thing that we should be able to walk about Edinburgh and see illustrious names on pedestals and something to commemorate them on these ...
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... thing in carrying out what might have been his wishes in such a connec- tion . But whether that be so or not , of one thing I am certain - that none of us here , if I may judge from the crowding of this hall and the attitude of this ...
... thing in carrying out what might have been his wishes in such a connec- tion . But whether that be so or not , of one thing I am certain - that none of us here , if I may judge from the crowding of this hall and the attitude of this ...
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... thing , you do not welcome one daily whom you are accustomed to feel a part of yourself and almost one of yourselves ; and , of course , there had been political divisions on which it is unnecessary to dwell in a non- political assembly ...
... thing , you do not welcome one daily whom you are accustomed to feel a part of yourself and almost one of yourselves ; and , of course , there had been political divisions on which it is unnecessary to dwell in a non- political assembly ...
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Page 54 - 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 4 - 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 16 - 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.
Page 117 - ... 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 16 - 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 47 - THE Solemn League and Covenant Cost Scotland blood — cost Scotland tears ; But it sealed Freedom's sacred cause — If thou'rt a slave, indulge thy sneers.
Page 18 - 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.
Page 3 - My constitution and frame were, ab origins, blasted with a deep incurable taint of hypochondria, which poisons my existence. Of late a number of domestic vexations, and some pecuniary share in the ruin of these...
Page 311 - DE TABLEY (LORD). POEMS, DRAMATIC AND LYRICAL. By JOHN LEICESTER WARREN (Lord De Tabley). Illustrations and Cover Design by CS RICKETTS. Second Edition. Crown 8vo.
Page 21 - 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.