Robert Burns and Mrs. Dunlop: Correspondence Now Published in Full for the First Time, Volumen1Dodd, Mead, 1898 |
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... feel the full force all led me to believe I could not do so kind a thing to Mr. Burns as by introducing him to Mr. Moore , whose keen passions must at once admire the poet , esteem the moral- ist , and wish to be usefull to the author ...
... feel the full force all led me to believe I could not do so kind a thing to Mr. Burns as by introducing him to Mr. Moore , whose keen passions must at once admire the poet , esteem the moral- ist , and wish to be usefull to the author ...
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... feel it so . You will tell me " unhappy only means " unsuccessful , " but I con- fess myself hurt by the least dubiety of expression in one whose own ideas are clear and determinate , and whose language is so singularly nervous and ...
... feel it so . You will tell me " unhappy only means " unsuccessful , " but I con- fess myself hurt by the least dubiety of expression in one whose own ideas are clear and determinate , and whose language is so singularly nervous and ...
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... Or ruins pendent in the air , Bold stems of heroes , here and there , I could discern ; Some seem'd to muse , some seem'd to dare , With features stern . - My heart did glowing transport feel , To see a 12 Correspondence between.
... Or ruins pendent in the air , Bold stems of heroes , here and there , I could discern ; Some seem'd to muse , some seem'd to dare , With features stern . - My heart did glowing transport feel , To see a 12 Correspondence between.
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... feel , To see a race heroic 1 wheel , And brandish round the deep - dyed steel , In sturdy blows ; While , back - recoiling , seem'd to reel Their suthron foes . His Country's Saviour , 2 mark him well ! Bold Richardton's heroic swell ...
... feel , To see a race heroic 1 wheel , And brandish round the deep - dyed steel , In sturdy blows ; While , back - recoiling , seem'd to reel Their suthron foes . His Country's Saviour , 2 mark him well ! Bold Richardton's heroic swell ...
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... feel delight in believing the bright fire of your genius a more favourable light for discovering the mutual kindling eye than the moon's wan , unwarming beam ? But this is a pleasure you proclude yourself by a few ill - chosen lines . A ...
... feel delight in believing the bright fire of your genius a more favourable light for discovering the mutual kindling eye than the moon's wan , unwarming beam ? But this is a pleasure you proclude yourself by a few ill - chosen lines . A ...
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acquaintance Adieu admire auld lang syne Ayrshire Bard believe Burns's Coila copy correspondence Craigie Creech dare say daughter Dear Madam Dumfries Dunlop House DUNLOP of Dunlop East Lothian Edinburgh Edinr Elderslie Ellisland epistle esteem fame Farewell farm favour fear feel Fintry flatter FRAN Franked by Kerr friendship Gabriel Watson genius give Glasgow Haddington hand happy hear heart honor hope humble servt ideas John John Dunlop Kilmarnock kind Lady Wallace least letter lines Lochryan Loudoun Loudoun Castle married Mauchline mind Moore Morham Mains Mossgiel Muse never Nithsdale obliged once perhaps pleased pleasure poem poet poet's poetic poor pride rhyme ROBERT BURNS ROBT Scots sent Shanter sincerely Sir Thomas Dunlop song soul spirit Stewarton sure tell thing thou thought told verses vext wife wish write wrot wrote
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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.