...names of his Native Land ; those who bear the honours and inherit the virtues of their Ancestors ? The Poetic Genius of my Country found me, as the prophetic...rural pleasures of my native soil, in my native tongue ; I turned my wild, artless notes, as she inspired — She whispered me to come to this ancient Metropolis...

...allusion, not profanely intended, that the " poetic genius of his country found him, as the prophet-bard Elijah did Elisha, at the plough, and threw her inspiring mantle over him. She bade him sing the loves, the joys, the rural scenes, and rural pleasures of his native soil,...

...image from the impulse of his own feeling. Robert Burns said, that the muse of his country found him as Elijah did Elisha, at the plough, and threw her inspiring mantle over him ; and the same may be said of Chantrey : it was in a secluded place, a nameless spot, into which...

...skill or grace, that well-known passage in the dedication to the gentlemen of the Caledonian Hunt : — nti e ploush — and threw her inspiring mantle over me." The Poet's dust has been a second time disturbed....

...skill nor grace, that well-known passage in the dedication to the gentlemen of the Caledonian Hunt : "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." The dust of the bard was...

...great, in his dedication of his works, the same year, to the noblemen and gentry of Scotland. He said, " The poetic Genius of my country found me as the prophetic...the joys, the rural scenes and rural pleasures of my natal soil in my native tongue. I tuned my wild, artless notes as she inspired. She whispered me to...

...poetic genius of iny country found me," savs he, in his preface to the Edinburgh edition of his poems, " as the prophetic bard Elijah did Elisha, at the plough, and threw her inspiring mantle over me." In accordance with this baptismal rite of consecration, he devoted his genius to the task of singing...

...Ancestors? The Poetic Genius of my Country found me, as the prophetic hard Elijah did Elisha — at tha plough ; and threw her inspiring- mantle over me....rural pleasures of my native soil in my native tongue. I tuned my wild, artless notes as she inspired. She whispered me to come to this ancient Metropolis...

...the very dedication of his poems to the noblemen and gentlemen of the Caledonian Hunt, he remarks, " the poetic genius of my country found me, as the prophetic bard Elijah did Elisha — at the plough ;" and seems to anticipate that it will so leave him, in its concluding sentences : " Nor do I present this...

...image from the impulse of his own feeling. Robert Burns said, that the muse of his country found him as Elijah did Elisha, at the plough, and threw her inspiring mantle over him ; and the same may be said of Chantrey : it was in a secluded place, a nameless spot, into which...