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... head , who figured rather disparagingly in the American war of independence . Burns was determined to keep the family together , and he and his equally heroic brother , Gilbert , toiled like galley slaves to this end . The poet honestly ...
... head , who figured rather disparagingly in the American war of independence . Burns was determined to keep the family together , and he and his equally heroic brother , Gilbert , toiled like galley slaves to this end . The poet honestly ...
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... head of his household and comfortably settled , surrounded by his wife and bairns , at Ellisland . There we find him again es- saying the rôle of the " wise man , " entering anew upon life , as it were , with a sturdy determination to ...
... head of his household and comfortably settled , surrounded by his wife and bairns , at Ellisland . There we find him again es- saying the rôle of the " wise man , " entering anew upon life , as it were , with a sturdy determination to ...
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... Tho ' , human like , your step whyles faltered , When folly slieved its head , unhaltered , Nor ettl't wrang ; Ye ne'er wi ' truth or honor paltered , In earnest sang . Remorse bred sorrow , song was born , And , 70 ALL ABOUT BURNS .
... Tho ' , human like , your step whyles faltered , When folly slieved its head , unhaltered , Nor ettl't wrang ; Ye ne'er wi ' truth or honor paltered , In earnest sang . Remorse bred sorrow , song was born , And , 70 ALL ABOUT BURNS .
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... head up and regards you with a more elevated look - the land of heroes who secured their country's independence on the field of Bannockburn , of sea- men and soldiers , who contributed to secure the independ- ence of all Europe , at the ...
... head up and regards you with a more elevated look - the land of heroes who secured their country's independence on the field of Bannockburn , of sea- men and soldiers , who contributed to secure the independ- ence of all Europe , at the ...
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... head , heart and hand . The secret is that it is the land of " The Cottar's Saturday Night . " In conclusion , it is our native land , the land we love so well . Long may we be proud of it and of the long line of distinguished ancestry ...
... head , heart and hand . The secret is that it is the land of " The Cottar's Saturday Night . " In conclusion , it is our native land , the land we love so well . Long may we be proud of it and of the long line of distinguished ancestry ...
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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...