 There is scarcely any earthly object gives me more — I do not know if I should call it pleasure — but something which exalts me, something which enraptures me — than to walk in the sheltered side of a wood, or high plantation, in a cloudy winter...  The Poetry of Robert Burns - Page 372by Robert Burns - 1896Full view - About this book
 | 1709 - 578 pages
...howling among the trees, and raving over the plain. It is my beat season for devotion : my mind is wrapt up in a kind of enthusiasm to Him, who, in the pompous language of the Hebrew bard, " walks on the wings of the wind " In .one of these seasons, just after a train of... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1800 - 520 pages
...object gives me more — I dp not know if I should call it pleasure — but something which exalts me, something which enraptures me — than to walk...sheltered side of a wood, or high plantation, in a cloudy winter-day, and hear the stormy wind howling among the trees, and raving over the plain. It is my best... | |
 | 1809 - 530 pages
...object gives me more — I do not know if I should call it pleasure — but something which exalts me, something which enraptures me — than to walk...sheltered side of a wood, or high plantation, in a cjoudy winter-day, and hear the stormy wind howling among die trees, and raving over the plain. It... | |
 | William Patterson - 1804 - 350 pages
...buried earth." That legitimate child of nature, the ingenious Burns, was always enraptured when walking in the sheltered side of a wood or high plantation in a cloudy winter day, and hearing the stormy wind howling among the trees, and raving over the plain ; it was his best season... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1806 - 506 pages
...object gives me more — I do not know if I should call it pleasure — but something which exalts me, something which enraptures me — than to walk...sheltered side of a wood, or high plantation, in a cloudy winter-day, and hear the stormy wind howling among the trees, and raving over the plain. It is my best... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1808 - 496 pages
...object gives me more — I do not know if I should call it pleasure — but something which exalts me, something which enraptures me — than to walk...sheltered side of a wood, or high plantation, in a cloudy winter-day, and hear the stormy wind howling among the trees, and raving over the plain. It is my best... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1809 - 328 pages
...plantation, in a cloudy winter-day^ and hear the stormy wind howling among the trees, and raving over the plain. It is my best season for devotion: my mind...enthusiasm to Him, who, in the pompous language of the Hebrew bard, " walks on the wings of the wind." In one of these seasons, just after a train of... | |
 | Enos Bronson - 1809 - 458 pages
...object gives me more — I do not know if 1 should call it pleasure — but something which exalts me — something which enraptures, me — than to...high plantation, in a cloudy winter day, and hear the stormy wind howling among the trees, and raving over the plain. It is my best season for devotion.... | |
 | 1809 - 914 pages
...know it' 1 should rail it pleasure— but something which exalts me— something which enrapture» me — than to walk in the sheltered side of a wood,...high plantation, in a cloudy winter day, and hear the stormy wind howling among the trees, and raving over the plain. It is my best season for devotion.... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1809 - 328 pages
...object gives me more — I do not know if I should call it pleasure — but something which exalts me, something which enraptures me — than to walk...sheltered side of a wood, or high plantation, in a cloudy winter-day, and hear the stormy wind howling among the trees, and raving over the plain. It is my best... | |
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