Robert Burns and Mrs. Dunlop: Correspondence Now Published in Full for the First Time, Volumen1Dodd, Mead, 1898 |
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... fear , more of philosophy than human nature in it . Poor David's pa- thetic cry of grief is much more the language of man : " O Absalom ! My son ! My son ! " A world to Come ! is the only genuine balm for an agonising heart , torn to ...
... fear , more of philosophy than human nature in it . Poor David's pa- thetic cry of grief is much more the language of man : " O Absalom ! My son ! My son ! " A world to Come ! is the only genuine balm for an agonising heart , torn to ...
Página xvii
... fears the " temptations " of life in the excise . She gives as an argument in favour of his candidature for the Pro- fessorship of Agriculture in Edinburgh University that a " grave member of the College would not be so often the prey ...
... fears the " temptations " of life in the excise . She gives as an argument in favour of his candidature for the Pro- fessorship of Agriculture in Edinburgh University that a " grave member of the College would not be so often the prey ...
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... fear the half sheet you do me the honour to send me is but so much lost ; however I shall try . 2 Meanwhile I would be glad to know whether you write the Dr. , or call , as he desires , upon his son , Major John Moore , now at the ...
... fear the half sheet you do me the honour to send me is but so much lost ; however I shall try . 2 Meanwhile I would be glad to know whether you write the Dr. , or call , as he desires , upon his son , Major John Moore , now at the ...
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... fear Where Indian gold and English manners reign , Wallace might fight and Burns may write in vain . I address this to the care of Mr. Creech , to whom I shall return the names and number of copies wanted by me or my friends , so you ...
... fear Where Indian gold and English manners reign , Wallace might fight and Burns may write in vain . I address this to the care of Mr. Creech , to whom I shall return the names and number of copies wanted by me or my friends , so you ...
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... fear you have got too strong a doze of it even for the most callous con- stitution , and all mankind are unco [ pretty ] weak and little to be trusted when all around are conspiring to spoil them and blow up their vanity — a passion ...
... fear you have got too strong a doze of it even for the most callous con- stitution , and all mankind are unco [ pretty ] weak and little to be trusted when all around are conspiring to spoil them and blow up their vanity — a passion ...
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Página 210 - ... weeps over the lea, The sweet-scented birk shades my Mary and me. Thy crystal stream, Afton, how lovely it glides, And winds by the cot where my Mary resides; How wanton thy waters her snowy feet lave, As, gathering sweet flowerets, she stems thy clear wave.
Página 189 - 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.
Página 188 - 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.
Página 188 - May, — a breezy, blue-skyed noon sometime about the beginning, and a hoary morning and calm sunny day about the end of autumn ; these, time out of mind, have been with me a kind of holiday. I believe I owe this to that glorious paper in the Spectator,
Página 182 - Fu' loud the wind blaws frae the Ferry, The ship rides by the Berwick-law, And I maun leave my bonnie Mary. The trumpets sound, the banners fly, The glittering spears are ranked ready ; The shouts o...
Página 182 - Go, fetch to me a pint o' wine, And fill it in a silver tassie; That I may drink before I go, A service to my bonie lassie. The boat rocks at the pier o...
Página 189 - 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 realities: a God that made all things, man's immaterial and immortal nature, and a world of weal or woe beyond death and the grave.
Página 189 - We know nothing, or next to nothing, of the substance or structure of our souls, so cannot account for those seeming caprices in them that one should be particularly pleased with this thing, or struck with that, which, on minds of a different cast, makes no extraordinary impression. I have some...
Página 181 - We'll tak a cup o' kindness yet, For auld lang syne! And surely ye'll be your pint-stowp, And surely I'll be mine; And we'll tak a cup o' kindness yet For auld lang syne.
Página 97 - I found a once much-loved and still much-loved female, literally and truly cast out to the mercy of the naked elements ; but I enabled her to purchase a shelter — there is no sporting with a fellow-creature's happiness or misery.