Robert Burns, Poet-laureate of Lodge Canongate KilwinningW. Blackwood and sons, 1893 - 38 pages |
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1815 whether Burns 25th January affiliation Ayrshire bit of wood BLACKWOOD AND SONS brethren brief minute brother Mason Brother Robert Burns was born Burns was Poet-Laureate Caledonia's Bard cherish chords Clover and Heather Doon Dugald Stewart Dumfries EDINBURGH AND LONDON Ettrick Shepherd friends genius half-breed Indian heart Henry Erskine Hogg honoured Hudson Kilmarnock knew Robert Burns Laureate of Lodge liberty little cottage lived Lodge Canongate Kil Lodge Canongate Kilwinning loved lover of Burns MACKENZIE Master Mauchline mausoleum memory of Robert Mossgiel MYSTIC Nasmyth never took place once sat poems poet of humanity Poet-Laureate of Lodge poet's poetic remember Robert Ainslie Scotland Scotsman seen the picture Shakespeare SIR AND BROTHER songs St Andrew's Lodge staff-officers summon Henry tell tesselated floor tion to-day to-night told touches tradition twenty guineas vouchers WALLACE BRUCE Walter Scott Wellington WILLIAM BLACKWOOD Wisconsin wood taken WORSHIPFUL SIR York youngest sister
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Page 38 - Time but the impression stronger makes, As streams their channels deeper wear. My Mary, dear departed shade! Where is thy place of blissful rest ? Seest thou thy lover lowly laid ? Hear'st thou the groans that rend his breast...
Page 18 - The RW Master having observed that Brother Burns was at present in the lodge — who is well known as a great poetic writer, and for a late publication of his works, which have been universally commended — submitted that he should be assumed a member of this lodge, which was unanimously agreed to, and he was assumed accordingly.
Page 36 - It was expedient that the Honorary Office of Poet-Laureate of the Lodge, which had been in abeyance since the death of the immortal Brother Robert Burns, should be revived, and that James Hogg, the Ettrick Shepherd, on whom his poetical mantle had fallen, should be respectfully requested to accept the appointment as the highest tribute to his genius and worth which the brethren have it in their power to bestow, which motion was unanimously and enthusiastically carried.
Page 29 - ... everybody had Burns blazed upon him as the genius of Scotland, in the year 1815, when it was proposed that a mausoleum should be erected over the poet's grave in Dumfries, this grand old Lodge put upon record that it would give twenty guineas towards that mausoleum, because Burns was the Poet -Laureate of Canongate Kilwinning. And, as if to make the link secure, the brother who seconded that motion in committee was Mr Charles Moore, the very man who signed the minute as Depute - Master of Burns'...
Page 10 - B wider and farther than any horizon ; for from that poetic view - point I could see New York, and San Francisco, and Calcutta ; and all because Robert Burns in 1786 published at Kilmarnock the first edition of his poems. One week ago, the evening of the 25th of this month, I had the pleasure of sitting down with one hundred lovers of Burns in "good old Killie," and when the train came at io.
Page 18 - ... Lodge, who is well known as a great poetic writer, and for a late publication of his works, which have been universally commended, and submitted that he should be assumed a member of this Lodge, which was unanimously agreed to, and he was assumed accordingly." That minute went upon the lodge - book, and it is preserved to-day in Lodge Canongate Kilwinning among her choicest treasures. There is no minute in the St Andrew's lodge - books that Robert Burns ever passed the door of that Lodge, and...
Page 31 - February i, 1787, when Burns was affiliated, — who lived until 1820; William Petrie, who knew the poet in 1787, and lived until 1845, thus connecting the year Burns was made Poet-Laureate with the very year the picture was produced ; Robert Ainslie, who made the tour of the Borders with Burns, and lived until 1838, thereby connecting the Poet of Ayr with the Ettrick Shepherd, who was made...
Page 28 - ... years afterwards — only eighteen and a half years after the poet's death — when everybody had Burns blazed upon him as the genius of Scotland, in the year 1815, when it was proposed that a mausoleum should be erected over the poet's grave in Dumfries, this grand old Lodge put upon record that it would give twenty guineas towards that mausoleum, because Burns was the Poet -Laureate of Canongate Kilwinning.
Page 30 - He went fortified with a book of 960 pages under his arm to prove to the good people of Stratford that Shakespeare was not a poet at all, — that Lord Bacon had written the plays of Shakespeare. There is not a book so thick or a volume so thin that can take the place in this...
Page 33 - PoetLaureate here, or self - appointed critics of second sight, living one hundred years after the poet's death ? There was a man by the name of Campbell, who forms a connectinglink between Robert Burns and this picture, the man who seconded the motion in 1845 to have this picture painted.