The Poetical Works of Robert Burns: Edited from the Best Printed and Manuscript Authorities, with Glossarial Index, and a Biographical Memoir, Volume 1Macmillan and Company, 1865 |
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... poet's birth it gave way in a violent wind , and mother and child were carried at mid- night to the shelter of a neighbour's dwelling . When Burns became famous he wore , more however for ornament than use - like the second jacket of a ...
... poet's birth it gave way in a violent wind , and mother and child were carried at mid- night to the shelter of a neighbour's dwelling . When Burns became famous he wore , more however for ornament than use - like the second jacket of a ...
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... poet's father , who spelt his name Burnes or Burness , and who was suspected of having a share in the Rebellion of 1745 , came into the neighbourhood of Edinburgh where he obtained employment as a gardener . Afterwards he went into ...
... poet's father , who spelt his name Burnes or Burness , and who was suspected of having a share in the Rebellion of 1745 , came into the neighbourhood of Edinburgh where he obtained employment as a gardener . Afterwards he went into ...
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... poet's grandfather built a school at Clockenhill in Kincardine , the first known in that part of the country . Burness was of the same strain , and he resolved that his sons should have every educational advantage his means could allow ...
... poet's grandfather built a school at Clockenhill in Kincardine , the first known in that part of the country . Burness was of the same strain , and he resolved that his sons should have every educational advantage his means could allow ...
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... poetic outcome , he could not have employed himself to better purpose . He was now rapidly getting perilous cargo on board . The Torbolton dancing school in- troduced him to unlimited sweethearting , and his nineteenth summer , which he ...
... poetic outcome , he could not have employed himself to better purpose . He was now rapidly getting perilous cargo on board . The Torbolton dancing school in- troduced him to unlimited sweethearting , and his nineteenth summer , which he ...
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... poet in the same space of time , either before his day or after . Three months before the death of the elder Burness , Robert and Gilbert rented the farm of Mossgiel in the parish of Mauchline . The farm consisted of 119 acres , and its ...
... poet in the same space of time , either before his day or after . Three months before the death of the elder Burness , Robert and Gilbert rented the farm of Mossgiel in the parish of Mauchline . The farm consisted of 119 acres , and its ...
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Alloway Kirk amang auld Ayrshire baith Bard blest bonie braw brother brunstane Burns Burns's cauld chiel Dalswinton dear death Deil Dugald Stewart Dumfries Dunlop e'en e'er Edinburgh Ellisland epistle Ev'n ev'ry fair fate fear Fintry frae Gavin Hamilton Gilbert grace guid hame heart Heaven holy honest honour ither Jenny Geddes Kilmarnock Kirk lady lasses letter Lord Lord Monboddo Mauchline maun monie morning Mossgiel mourn muckle Muse nae mair ne'er never night noble o'er owre pleasure poem poet poet's poor pow'r pride rhyme Riddel Robert round Samson's dead Scotia's Scotland Scottish Shanter sing skelpin song soul stanza sugh sweet tears tell thee There's thou thro Torbolton unco verses weary weel Whare whistle Whyles wretched wrote ye'll ye're
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Página 144 - ... sun-ward spread, Thou lifts thy unassuming head In humble guise; But now the share uptears thy bed, And low thou lies! Such is the fate of artless maid, Sweet flow'ret of the rural shade! By love's simplicity betray'd, And guileless trust; Till she, like thee, all soil'd, is laid Low i
Página 201 - Kirkton Jean till Monday. She prophesied that, late or soon, Thou would be found deep drown'd in Doon ; Or catch'd wi' warlocks in the mirk By Alloway's auld haunted kirk. Ah, gentle dames ! it gars me greet To think how mony counsels sweet, How mony lengthen'd sage advices, The husband frae the wife despises ! But to our tale : Ae market night, Tam had got planted unco right, Fast by an ingle, bleezing finely, Wi...
Página 132 - The priest-like father reads the sacred page, How Abram was the friend of God on high ; Or, Moses bade eternal warfare wage With Amalek's ungracious progeny ; Or, how the royal bard did groaning lie Beneath the stroke of Heaven's avenging ire ; Or, Job's pathetic plaint and wailing cry ; Or, rapt Isaiah's wild, seraphic fire ; Or other holy seers that tune the sacred lyre.
Página 145 - ... Unskilful he to note the card Of prudent lore, Till billows rage, and gales blow hard, And whelm him o'er ! Such fate to suffering worth is giv'n, Who long with wants and woes has striv'n, By human pride or cunning driv'n To...
Página 78 - tis He alone , Decidedly can try us, He knows each chord — its various tone, Each spring — its various bias: Then at the balance let's be mute, We never can adjust it; What's done we partly may compute, But know not what's resisted.
Página 202 - Or like the Borealis race, That flit ere you can point their place; Or like the rainbow's lovely form Evanishing amid the storm. Nae man can tether time or tide; The hour approaches Tam maun ride: That hour, o...
Página 132 - No more to sigh, or shed the bitter tear, Together hymning their Creator's praise, In such society, yet still more dear ; While circling Time moves round in an eternal sphere. Compared with this, how poor Religion's pride, In all the pomp of method, and of art, When men display to congregations wide Devotion's ev'ry grace, except the heart...
Página 143 - WEE, modest, crimson-tipped flow'r, Thou's met me in an evil hour ; For I maun crush amang the stoure Thy slender stem. To spare thee now is past my pow'r, Thou bonie gem. Alas ! it's no thy neebor sweet, The bonie Lark, companion meet ! Bending thee 'mang the dewy weet ! Wi' spreckl'd breast, When upward-springing, blythe, to greet The purpling east.
Página 83 - Yes, let the rich deride, the proud disdain. These simple blessings of the lowly train ; To me more dear, congenial to my heart, One native charm than all the gloss of art.
Página 160 - O wad some Pow'r the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us ! It wad frae monie a blunder free us And foolish notion: What airs in dress an' gait wad lea'e us, And ev'n Devotion I ADDRESS TO EDINBURGH.