Robert Burns and Mrs. Dunlop: Correspondence Now Published in Full for the First Time, Volumen1Dodd, Mead, 1898 |
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... leaving the estate in life rent to his wife's nephew , Thomas Dunlop Cuningham Graham , with remainder in fee to his grand - niece , Ellen Douglas , eldest daughter of Robert Hathorn Johnston - Stewart of Physgill and Glasserton ...
... leaving the estate in life rent to his wife's nephew , Thomas Dunlop Cuningham Graham , with remainder in fee to his grand - niece , Ellen Douglas , eldest daughter of Robert Hathorn Johnston - Stewart of Physgill and Glasserton ...
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... do I see that time when the same tide will leave me , and recede perhaps as far below the mark of truth . I do not say this in the ridiculous - affectation of self - abasement and modesty . I have Robert Burns and Mrs. Dunlop II.
... do I see that time when the same tide will leave me , and recede perhaps as far below the mark of truth . I do not say this in the ridiculous - affectation of self - abasement and modesty . I have Robert Burns and Mrs. Dunlop II.
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... leave of the Masons , read the inimitable Epitaph of the Bard , 2 and stop a moment wherever genuine beauty demanded notice , there would be no getting home again in the compass of a letter , nor should I leave room for a question which ...
... leave of the Masons , read the inimitable Epitaph of the Bard , 2 and stop a moment wherever genuine beauty demanded notice , there would be no getting home again in the compass of a letter , nor should I leave room for a question which ...
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... King , and say it will hurt the sale of the rest . Of this I am no judge . I can only say there is no piece in the whole I would vote to leave out , tho ' severals where I would draw my pen over lines , or 18 Correspondence between.
... King , and say it will hurt the sale of the rest . Of this I am no judge . I can only say there is no piece in the whole I would vote to leave out , tho ' severals where I would draw my pen over lines , or 18 Correspondence between.
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... leaves and berries red Did rustling play . ( 4 ) Verses enclosed on separate sheet beginning – Το To ROBT . BURNS . you , kind Bard , my warmest thanks I send , My country's poet and her saviour's friend . Ad . Mrs. DUNLOP of Dunlop ...
... leaves and berries red Did rustling play . ( 4 ) Verses enclosed on separate sheet beginning – Το To ROBT . BURNS . you , kind Bard , my warmest thanks I send , My country's poet and her saviour's friend . Ad . Mrs. DUNLOP of Dunlop ...
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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.