Life of Robert BurnsConstable and Company, 1828 - 310 من الصفحات |
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... genius . It was amidst such scenes that this extraordinary being felt those first indefinite stirrings of immortal ambition , which he has himself shadowed out under the magnificent image of " the blind gropings of Homer's Cyclops ...
... genius . It was amidst such scenes that this extraordinary being felt those first indefinite stirrings of immortal ambition , which he has himself shadowed out under the magnificent image of " the blind gropings of Homer's Cyclops ...
الصفحة 28
... genius , which he bestowed more expense on cultivating than on the rest of the family and he was equally delighted with his warmth of heart , and conversational powers . He had indeed that dislike of dancing - schools which Robert ...
... genius , which he bestowed more expense on cultivating than on the rest of the family and he was equally delighted with his warmth of heart , and conversational powers . He had indeed that dislike of dancing - schools which Robert ...
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... genius of a rural bard . Some book ( generally one of those mentioned in his letter to Mr Murdoch ) he always carried and read , when not otherwise employed . It was like- wise his custom to read at table . In one of my visits to ...
... genius of a rural bard . Some book ( generally one of those mentioned in his letter to Mr Murdoch ) he always carried and read , when not otherwise employed . It was like- wise his custom to read at table . In one of my visits to ...
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... genius developed its highest energies ; on the works produced in these years his fame was first established , and must ever continue mainly to rest : it was then also that his personal character came out in all its brightest lights ...
... genius developed its highest energies ; on the works produced in these years his fame was first established , and must ever continue mainly to rest : it was then also that his personal character came out in all its brightest lights ...
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... genius might have made his first approaches to the public notice in a very different character . " Let your bright talents , " - ( thus wrote the ex- cellent John Ramsay of Ochtertyre , in October 1787 , ) " Let those bright talents ...
... genius might have made his first approaches to the public notice in a very different character . " Let your bright talents , " - ( thus wrote the ex- cellent John Ramsay of Ochtertyre , in October 1787 , ) " Let those bright talents ...
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الصفحة 258 - He is a man speaking to men: a man, it is true, endowed with more lively sensibility, more enthusiasm and tenderness, who has a greater knowledge of human nature, and a more comprehensive soul, than are supposed to be common among mankind; a man pleased with his own passions, and volitions, and who rejoices more than other men in the spirit of life that is in him; delighting to contemplate similar volitions and passions as manifested in the goings-on of the Universe, and habitually impelled to create...
الصفحة 187 - 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.
الصفحة 114 - There was a strong expression of sense and shrewdness in all his lineaments ; the eye alone, I think, indicated the poetical character and temperament. It was large, and of a dark cast, which glowed (I say literally glowed) when he spoke with feeling or interest. I never saw such another eye in a human head, though I have seen the most distinguished men of my time.
الصفحة 297 - O'er a' the ills o' life victorious! But pleasures are like poppies spread: You seize the...
الصفحة 264 - 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.
الصفحة 24 - I was not so presumptuous as to imagine that I could make verses like printed ones, composed by men who had Greek and Latin; but my girl sung a song, which was said to be composed by a small country laird's son, on one of his father's maids, with whom he was in love ! and I saw no reason why I might not rhyme as well as he...
الصفحة 81 - Again ye have heard that it hath been said by them of old time, Thou shalt not, forswear thyself, but shalt perform unto the Lord thine oaths...
الصفحة 187 - On the fifth day of the moon, which, according to the custom of my forefathers, I always keep holy, after having washed myself and offered up my morning devotions, I ascended the high hills of Bagdat in order to pass the rest of the day in meditation and prayer.
الصفحة 80 - Ye banks and braes and streams around The castle o' Montgomery, Green be your woods, and fair your flowers, Your waters never drumlie ! There simmer first unfauld her robes, And there the langest tarry ; For there I took the last fareweel O
الصفحة 188 - 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.