The Works of Robert Burns: General correspondence, including pieces of miscellaneous poetryT. Cadell and W. Davies, 1806 |
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... perhaps on no occasion has so large a portion of the recent and unpremeditated effusions of a man of genius been committed to the press . Of the following letters of Burns , a consi- derable number were transmitted for publica- tion ...
... perhaps on no occasion has so large a portion of the recent and unpremeditated effusions of a man of genius been committed to the press . Of the following letters of Burns , a consi- derable number were transmitted for publica- tion ...
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... perhaps in more studied language . In the chaos of his manuscripts , some of the original sketches were found : and as these sketches , though less perfect , are fairly to be considered as the offspring of his mind , where they ...
... perhaps in more studied language . In the chaos of his manuscripts , some of the original sketches were found : and as these sketches , though less perfect , are fairly to be considered as the offspring of his mind , where they ...
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... perhaps , where we've involved others ; The young , the innocent , who fondly lov'd us , Nay , more , that very love their cause of ruin ! O burning hell ! in all thy store of torments , There's not a keener lash ! Lives there a man so ...
... perhaps , where we've involved others ; The young , the innocent , who fondly lov'd us , Nay , more , that very love their cause of ruin ! O burning hell ! in all thy store of torments , There's not a keener lash ! Lives there a man so ...
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... perhaps bespat- tering all about him , gains some of life's little eminences ; where , after all , he can only see , and be seen , a little more conspicuously , than what , in the pride of his heart , he is apt to term the poor ...
... perhaps bespat- tering all about him , gains some of life's little eminences ; where , after all , he can only see , and be seen , a little more conspicuously , than what , in the pride of his heart , he is apt to term the poor ...
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... perhaps think it an extravagant fancy , but it is a sentiment which strikes home to my very soul : though sceptical , in some points , of our current belief , yet , I think , I have every evidence for the reality of a life beyond the ...
... perhaps think it an extravagant fancy , but it is a sentiment which strikes home to my very soul : though sceptical , in some points , of our current belief , yet , I think , I have every evidence for the reality of a life beyond the ...
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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...