Bibliotheca Burnsiana: Life and Works of Burns: Title Pages and Imprints of the Various Editions in the Private Library of James M'Kie, Kilmarnock, Prior to Date 1866J. M'Kie, 1866 - 43 страница |
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Account added additional ADDRESS ALEXANDER ALLAN CUNNINGHAM appeared Appendix Arts Author Ayrshire Bard beautiful Biographical Booksellers bound BROWN BURNS'S CADELL CELEBRATED Centenary Character and Condition CHIEFLY CLARINDA Collected Complete Containing copy Corrected Glossary Correspondence CREECH Criticism David DAVIES Demy Descriptions Dublin Edinburgh Engravings Enlarged and Corrected Festival Foolscap Four Volumes friends Frontispiece Genius GEORGE GILBERT Glasgow Glossary High Hill Illustrated JAMES CURRIE JAMES STORER January JOHN Kilmarnock Land of BURNS Letters lines London LORD Memoir Memory Notes Notices Observations Octavo Octavo-with Portrait Original Pages Pieces Plates POEMS Poems and Songs Poet POETICAL prefixed Printed Printer publication Published Quarto re-print Review ROBERT BURNS ROBERT CHAMBERS Scotland SCOTTISH DIALECT Scottish Peasantry Second Edition Selected SHANTER Sketch Small Sold Songs SONGS OF ROBERT Square STEWART Strand THOMAS Title various Verses Vignette WILLIAM WILSON Writings Written
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Страница 17 - And wi' the lave ilk merry morn Could rank my rig and lass, Still shearing, and clearing The tither stocked raw, Wi' claivers, an' haivers, Wearing the day awa : Ev'n then a wish, (I mind its power,) A wish that to my latest hour Shall strongly heave my breast ; That I for poor auld Scotland's sake, Some usefu' plan, or beuk could make, Or sing a sang at least.
Страница 22 - Tam had got planted unco right; Fast by an ingle, bleezing finely, Wi' reaming swats, that drank divinely; And at his elbow, Souter Johnny, His ancient, trusty, drouthy crony; Tam lo'ed him like a vera brither; They had been fou for weeks thegither. The night drave on wi...
Страница 36 - I have no dearer aim than to have it in my power, unplagued with the routine of business, for which, heaven knows ! I am unfit enough, to make leisurely pilgrimages through Caledonia ; to sit on the fields of her battles ; to wander on the romantic banks of her rivers ; and to muse by the stately towers or venerable ruins, once the honoured abodes of her heroes.
Страница 7 - Poems ascribed to Robert Burns, the Ayrshire bard, not contained in any edition of his works hitherto published.
Страница 30 - There have been loftier themes than his, And longer scrolls, and louder lyres, And lays lit up with Poesy's Purer and holier fires: Yet read the names that know not death; Few nobler ones than Burus are there; And few have won a greener wreath Than that which binds his hair.
Страница 10 - Ordain'd to fire th' adoring sons of earth, With every charm of wisdom and of worth ; Ordain'd to light, with intellectual day, The mazy wheels of nature as they play, Or, warm with Fancy's energy, to glow, And rival all but Shakspeare's name below.
Страница 7 - REAR high thy bleak majestic hills, Thy shelter'd valleys proudly spread, And, SCOTIA, pour thy thousand rills, And wave thy heaths with blossoms red ; But, ah ! what poet now shall tread Thy airy heights, thy woodland reign, Since he the sweetest bard is dead That ever...
Страница 13 - ... in glory and in joy, Behind his plough, upon the mountain side!
Страница 36 - A Letter to a Friend of Robert Burns ; occasioned by an intended Republication of the Account of the Life of Burns, by Dr Currie ; and of the Selection made by him from his Letters.
Страница 26 - THE POETICAL WORKS OF ROBERT BURNS. Edited from the best printed and manuscript Authorities, with Glossarial Index and a Biographical Memoir, by ALEXANDER SMITH.