All about BurnsJ.S. Ogilvie Publishing Company, 1896 - 178 страница |
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... man , and should have been forgotten on that 25th day of July , 1796 , when all that was mortal of the bard was laid ... man's career as to shape his destiny and influence his song , and in that case the esca- pade , whatever it may have ...
... man , and should have been forgotten on that 25th day of July , 1796 , when all that was mortal of the bard was laid ... man's career as to shape his destiny and influence his song , and in that case the esca- pade , whatever it may have ...
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... man's a man for a ' that , " which flows through so much of the bard's writ- ings , and that inspired in him such thoughts as those which , for instance , were crystallized in " Man was Made to Mourn . " The story of the life of William ...
... man's a man for a ' that , " which flows through so much of the bard's writ- ings , and that inspired in him such thoughts as those which , for instance , were crystallized in " Man was Made to Mourn . " The story of the life of William ...
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... man might better be without . Probably his moral follies aroused in him the stinging of conscience when he remembered the teachings of the dwining saint at Lochlea and made him think — when he was not thinking of love - of man's chief ...
... man might better be without . Probably his moral follies aroused in him the stinging of conscience when he remembered the teachings of the dwining saint at Lochlea and made him think — when he was not thinking of love - of man's chief ...
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... man's genius . 66 99 " Tam o ' Shanter may be said to close the Ellisland period . As might be expected , the soil ... man like Robert Burns . But all during the time of transition , and after he had got settled in his new abode , he ...
... man's genius . 66 99 " Tam o ' Shanter may be said to close the Ellisland period . As might be expected , the soil ... man like Robert Burns . But all during the time of transition , and after he had got settled in his new abode , he ...
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... Man's a Man for a ' That , " the anthem , the glorification it may be said , of honest poverty , the song that has done more to soften the condition of the toiling masses in Scotland and elsewhere than all the laws and dictums of ...
... Man's a Man for a ' That , " the anthem , the glorification it may be said , of honest poverty , the song that has done more to soften the condition of the toiling masses in Scotland and elsewhere than all the laws and dictums of ...
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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...