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On a first consideration of the subject, we should perhaps expect to find this
attachment strong in proportion to the physical advantages of the soil ; but inquiry
, far from confirming this supposition, seems rather to lead to an opposite
conclusion.
On a first consideration of the subject, we should perhaps expect to find this
attachment strong in proportion to the physical advantages of the soil ; but inquiry
, far from confirming this supposition, seems rather to lead to an opposite
conclusion.
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A limited society of this kind, where the subject of conversation is fixed before
hand, so that each member may revolve it previously in his mind, is perhaps one
of the happiest contrivances hitherto discovered for shortening the acquisition of
...
A limited society of this kind, where the subject of conversation is fixed before
hand, so that each member may revolve it previously in his mind, is perhaps one
of the happiest contrivances hitherto discovered for shortening the acquisition of
...
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and manners of the humblest ranks of society, hitherto little observed, and which
will perhaps be found neither useless nor uninteresting. About the time of his
leaving his native county, " was asked if he would print a second, and take his ...
and manners of the humblest ranks of society, hitherto little observed, and which
will perhaps be found neither useless nor uninteresting. About the time of his
leaving his native county, " was asked if he would print a second, and take his ...
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... contained perhaps * vol. in. Dedication. perhaps an uncommon proportion of
men of considerable talents, devoted ROBERT BURNS. 155.
... contained perhaps * vol. in. Dedication. perhaps an uncommon proportion of
men of considerable talents, devoted ROBERT BURNS. 155.
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Hence perhaps may be explained, why the banks of the Devon and of the Tweed
form no part of the subjects of his song. A similar train of reasoning may perhaps
explain the want of emotion with which he viewed the Caldron Linn. Certainly ...
Hence perhaps may be explained, why the banks of the Devon and of the Tweed
form no part of the subjects of his song. A similar train of reasoning may perhaps
explain the want of emotion with which he viewed the Caldron Linn. Certainly ...
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Página 87 - Then kneeling down, to Heaven's eternal King, The saint, the father, and the husband prays: Hope "springs exulting on triumphant wing," That thus they all shall meet in future days, There ever bask in uncreated rays, 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.
Página 86 - Perhaps the Christian volume is the theme, How guiltless blood for guilty man was shed; How He, who bore in heaven the second name, Had not on earth whereon to lay his head; How his first followers and servants sped: The precepts sage they wrote to many a land: How he, who lone in Patmos banished, Saw in the sun a mighty angel stand; And heard great Babylon's doom pronounced by Heaven's command. Then, kneeling down to heaven's Eternal King, The saint, the father, and the husband prays; Hope springs...
Página 86 - 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 87 - And proffer up to heaven the warm request, That HE who stills the raven's clam'rous nest, And decks the lily fair in flow'ry pride, Would, in the way his wisdom sees the best, For them and for their little ones provide, But chiefly in their hearts with grace divine preside.
Página 49 - Poesy was still a darling walk for my mind, but it was only indulged in according to the humour of the hour. I had usually half a dozen or more pieces on hand; I took up one or other, as it suited the momentary tone of the mind, and dismissed the work as it bordered, on fatigue. My passions, when once lighted up, raged like so many devils, till they got vent in rhyme; and then the conning over my verses, like a spell, soothed all into quiet!
Página 85 - The sire turns o'er, wi' patriarchal grace, The big ha' Bible, ance his father's pride. His bonnet rev'rently is laid aside, His lyart haffets wearing thin an' bare ; Those strains that once did sweet in Zion glide, He wales a portion with judicious care ; And " Let us worship God !
Página 43 - ... promises, kindly stepped in, and carried him away, to where the wicked cease from troubling and where the weary are at rest!
Página 45 - The great misfortune of my life was — to want an aim. I had felt early some stirrings of ambition, but they were the blind gropings of Homer's Cyclops round the walls of his cave.
Página 254 - The poetic genius of my country found me, as the prophetic bard Elijah did Elisha, at the plough, and threw her inspiring mantle over me. She bade me sing the loves, the joys, the rural scenes and rural pleasures of my native soil, in my native tongue. I tuned my wild, artless notes, as she inspired.
Página 301 - But, fare you weel, auld Nickie-ben! O wad ye tak a thought an' men' ! Ye aiblins might — I dinna ken — • Still hae a stake — I'm wae to think upo' yon den, Ev'n for your sake ! THE DEATH AND DYING WORDS OF POOR MAILIE, THE AUTHOR'S ONLY PET YOWE.
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| Título | The works of Robert Burns; with an account of his life, and a criticism on his writings, Volume 1 The works of Robert Burns; with an account of his life, and a criticism on his writings, Robert Burns |
| Autor | Robert Burns |
| Publicado | 1800 |
| Original de | Oxford University |
| Digitalizado | 20 jun. 2007 |
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