All about BurnsJ.S. Ogilvie Publishing Company, 1896 - 178 страница |
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... Bard ..... 167 ILLUSTRATIONS . Portrait of Robert Burns The Tam O'Shanter Inn , High Street , Ayr .. Burns's Mausoleum , Dumfries ........ Interior of the Mausoleum ...... Bust and Relics , Ayr ...... Kitchen Fireplace , Burns's Cottage ...
... Bard ..... 167 ILLUSTRATIONS . Portrait of Robert Burns The Tam O'Shanter Inn , High Street , Ayr .. Burns's Mausoleum , Dumfries ........ Interior of the Mausoleum ...... Bust and Relics , Ayr ...... Kitchen Fireplace , Burns's Cottage ...
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... bard has recently uttered a protest against the merciless and continual exposure , often untruthful , of his weaknesses and sins . The protester - Mrs . S. Burns Hutchinson of Cheltenham , a granddaughter of the bard - thinks that the ...
... bard has recently uttered a protest against the merciless and continual exposure , often untruthful , of his weaknesses and sins . The protester - Mrs . S. Burns Hutchinson of Cheltenham , a granddaughter of the bard - thinks that the ...
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... of his writings . By the first , mainly from a love of personal notoriety , a desire to be linked , in no matter how disagreeable a fashion to the greatest of Scotia's bards , every petty detail of his career has 10 ALL ABOUT BURNS .
... of his writings . By the first , mainly from a love of personal notoriety , a desire to be linked , in no matter how disagreeable a fashion to the greatest of Scotia's bards , every petty detail of his career has 10 ALL ABOUT BURNS .
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John Dawson Ross. Scotia's bards , every petty detail of his career has been ferreted out and discussed , no matter how little it may really have concerned the public ; every paltry anecdote has been retold , every little scrap of ...
John Dawson Ross. Scotia's bards , every petty detail of his career has been ferreted out and discussed , no matter how little it may really have concerned the public ; every paltry anecdote has been retold , every little scrap of ...
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... bard it is only necessary for us to consider mainly Burns , the poet , and not , as is too generally the case , to devote most of our attention to Burns the man . This does not necessarily imply that we are to entirely lose sight of the ...
... bard it is only necessary for us to consider mainly Burns , the poet , and not , as is too generally the case , to devote most of our attention to Burns the man . This does not necessarily imply that we are to entirely lose sight of the ...
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Страница 65 - Then kneeling down, to Heaven's eternal King, The saint, the father, and the husband prays: Hope "springs exulting on triumphant wing," That thus they all shall meet in future days, There ever bask in uncreated rays, No more to sigh, or shed the bitter tear, Together hymning their Creator's praise. In such society, yet still more dear; While circling time moves round in an eternal sphere.
Страница 77 - The sire turns o'er, wi' patriarchal grace, The big ha' Bible, ance his father's pride. His bonnet rev'rently is laid aside, His lyart haffets wearing thin an' bare ; Those strains that once did sweet in Zion glide, He wales a portion with judicious care ; And " Let us worship God !
Страница 128 - 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.
Страница 128 - ... 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 had no opportunity to keep his word, otherwise I might have seen more of this distinguished man.
Страница 30 - It's no in makin muckle mair: It's no in books ; it's no in lear, To make us truly blest : If Happiness hae not her seat And centre in the breast, We may be wise, or rich, or great, But never can be blest : Nae treasures, nor pleasures, Could make us happy lang; The heart ay's the part ay, That makes us right or wrang.
Страница 23 - 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, I sigh'd and said amang them a'; — "Ye are na Mary Morison!
Страница 29 - It's hardly in a body's pow'r, To keep, at times, frae being sour, To see how things are shar'd ; How best o...
Страница 18 - Then kneeling down to Heaven's Eternal King The saint, the father, and the husband prays : Hope 'springs exulting on triumphant wing' That thus they all shall meet in future days : There ever bask in uncreated rays, No more to sigh, or shed the bitter tear, Together hymning their Creator's praise, In such society, yet still more dear ; While circling Time moves round in an eternal sphere.
Страница 160 - With the ready trick and fable, Round we wander all the day; And at night, in barn or stable, Hug our doxies on the hay.
Страница 25 - I am quite transported at the thought that ere long, perhaps very soon, I shall bid an eternal adieu to all the pains, and...