 | Robert Burns - 1800 - 520 pages
...poetry. Tell me, my dear friend, to what can this be owing ? Are we a piece of machinery, which, like the Eolian harp, passive, takes the impression of the...immaterial and immortal nature — and a world of weal or woe beyond death and the grave. No. No. LXIX, TO DR. MOORE, EHisland, near Dumfries, 4th Jan. 1780*... | |
 | 1801 - 452 pages
...impression ot the passing accident ? Or do these workings arfie something within us above the trodden clod ? own myself partial to such proofs of those awful and...immaterial and immortal nature — and a world of weal or woe beyond death and the grave ! • Often as I have glid through the pomp of Prince's-street, (Edinburgh),... | |
 | 1828 - 722 pages
...me, my dear friend, to what can this be owing. Are we a piece of machinery, which, like the . lv>li;m harp, passive, takes the impression of the passing...immaterial and immortal nature, and a world of weal or woe beyond death and the grave.' Force and fineness of understanding are often spoken of as something... | |
 | 1809 - 530 pages
...poetry. Tell me, my dear friend, to what can this be owing ? Are we a piece of machinery, which, like the Eolian harp, passive* takes the impression of the passing accident ? Or do diese workings argue something widiin us above the trodden clod ? ' II. p. 195 — 197. To this we... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1806 - 506 pages
...poetry. Tell me, my dear friend, to what can this be owing ? Are we a piece of machinery, which, like the Eolian harp, passive, takes the impression of the...immaterial and immortal nature — and a world of weal or woe beyond death and the grave. No.. No. LXIV. To DR. MOORE. Ellisland, near Dumfries, 4th Jan.... | |
 | John Evans - 1807 - 318 pages
...ot" the passing accident ? Or <io these workings argue something within us above the trodden ciod ? I own myself partial to such proofs of those awful and important realities--.- God that made all things— man's immaterial and immortal nature— and a world of weal or woe beyond... | |
 | Enos Bronson - 1809 - 458 pages
...poetry. Tell me, my dear friend, to what can this be owing ? Are we a piece of machinery, which, like the Eolian harp, passive, takes the impression of the...workings argue something within us above the trodden clod ?" II. p. 195—197. To this we may add the following passage, us a part, indeed, of the same picture"... | |
 | 1809 - 530 pages
...poetry. Tell me, my dear friend, to what can this be owing ? Are we a piece of machinery, which, like the Eolian harp, passive, takes the impression of the...argue' • something within us above the trodden clod ? * II. p. 195—197. To this we may add the following passage, as a part, indeed, of the same picture.... | |
 | 1809 - 914 pages
...me, my dear friend, to what can this be owing Ï Are we a piece of machinery, which, like the Kolian harp, passive, takes the impression of the passing...workings argue something within us above the trodden clod !" II. p.. 195—197. To this we may add the following passage, as a part, indeed, of the same picture"... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1815 - 354 pages
...Or do these workings argue something within us ahove the trodden elod ? I own myself partial to sueh proofs of those awful and important realities— '-a...immaterial and immortal nature— and a world of weal or woe heyond «leai h and the grave. No. LXIII. To Dr. MOORE. near Dumfries, 4th January^ 1789. Sir,... | |
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Are we a piece of machinery, which, like the ^Eolian harp, passive, takes the impression of the passing accident ; or do these workings argue Something within us above the trodden clod ? I own myself partial to such proofs of those awful and important... 
