The Works of Robert Burns: General correspondence, including pieces of miscellaneous poetryT. Cadell and W. Davies, 1806 |
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... Lord Glencairn , XL . To Sir JOHN WHITEFOORD . 120 · · • 122 Dec. 1787. Thanks for Friendship - Re- flections on the poetical character , · XLI . To Mrs. DUNLOP . 21st Jan. 1788 . Written on recovery from sickness , XLII . Extract to ...
... Lord Glencairn , XL . To Sir JOHN WHITEFOORD . 120 · · • 122 Dec. 1787. Thanks for Friendship - Re- flections on the poetical character , · XLI . To Mrs. DUNLOP . 21st Jan. 1788 . Written on recovery from sickness , XLII . Extract to ...
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... Lord Mon- boddo , at whose house I have had the honour to be more than once . There has not been any thing nearly like her , in all the combinations of beauty , grace , and goodness , the great Creator has formed , since Milton's Eve on ...
... Lord Mon- boddo , at whose house I have had the honour to be more than once . There has not been any thing nearly like her , in all the combinations of beauty , grace , and goodness , the great Creator has formed , since Milton's Eve on ...
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... LORD , my As I have but slender pretensions to philosophy , I cannot rise to the exalted ideas of a citizen of the world ; but have all those na- tional prejudices which , I believe , glow pecu- liarly strong in the breast of a ...
... LORD , my As I have but slender pretensions to philosophy , I cannot rise to the exalted ideas of a citizen of the world ; but have all those na- tional prejudices which , I believe , glow pecu- liarly strong in the breast of a ...
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... Lord , certainly deserves my very grateful acknowledgments ; but your patronage is a bounty peculiarly suited to my feelings . I am not master enough of the eti- quette of life , to know whether there be not some impropriety in ...
... Lord , certainly deserves my very grateful acknowledgments ; but your patronage is a bounty peculiarly suited to my feelings . I am not master enough of the eti- quette of life , to know whether there be not some impropriety in ...
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... Lord Eglinton , with ten guineas , by way of subscrip- tion for two copies of my next edition . The word you object to in the mention I have made of my glorious countryman and your immortal ancestor , is indeed borrowed from Thomson ...
... Lord Eglinton , with ten guineas , by way of subscrip- tion for two copies of my next edition . The word you object to in the mention I have made of my glorious countryman and your immortal ancestor , is indeed borrowed from Thomson ...
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Page 63 - No sculptured marble here, nor pompous lay, 'No storied urn nor animated bust;' This simple stone directs pale Scotia's way To pour her sorrows o'er her poet's dust.
Page 253 - Man, this is one of the most extraordinary, that he shall go on from day to day, from week to week, from month to month...
Page 197 - I have some favourite flowers in spring, among which are the mountain-daisy, the hare-bell, the fox-glove, the wild-brier rose, the budding birch, and the hoary hawthorn, that I view and hang over with particular delight.
Page 447 - ... disfigure them, are yet, I am convinced, original and component parts of the human soul ; those senses of the mind, if I may be allowed the expression, which connect us with, and link us to, those awful obscure realities — an allpowerful, and equally beneficent God ; and a world to come, beyond death and the grave.
Page 196 - Bagdat in order to pass the rest of the day in meditation and prayer. As I was here airing myself on the tops of the mountains, I fell into a profound contemplation on the vanity of human life; and, passing from one thought to another, surely, said I, man is but a shadow and life a dream.
Page 11 - I believe, may be partly owing to my misfortunes giving my mind a melancholy cast : but there is something even in the ' Mighty tempest, and the hoary waste, Abrupt, and deep stretch'd o'er the buried earth," which raises the mind to a serious sublimity favourable to every thing great and noble.
Page 190 - Go fetch to me a pint o' wine, And fill it in a silver tassie, That I may drink, before I go, A service to my bonnie lassie. The boat rocks at the pier o...
Page 319 - As cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country.
Page 329 - Coffins stood round, like open presses, That shaw'd the dead in their last dresses; And, by some devilish...
Page 448 - THESE, as they change, ALMIGHTY FATHER, these Are but the varied God. The rolling year Is full of THEE. Forth in the pleasing Spring THY beauty walks, THY tenderness and love. Wide flush the fields ; the softening air is balm ; Echo the mountains round ; the forest smiles ; And every sense, and every heart is joy. Then comes THY glory in the Summer months, With light and heat refulgent. Then THY sun...