Robert Burns and Mrs. Dunlop: Correspondence Now Published in Full for the First Time, Volumen1Dodd, Mead, 1898 |
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... . At first he was deeply offended , and he was , of course , never exactly com- fortable under the beneficence of his correspondent ; but he reasoned himself into toleration in several characteristic epistles Preface ix.
... . At first he was deeply offended , and he was , of course , never exactly com- fortable under the beneficence of his correspondent ; but he reasoned himself into toleration in several characteristic epistles Preface ix.
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... never intended for publication - that she re- garded the advent of a letter from him as an event of supreme importance . She was in agony when , for some unforeseen reason , he failed to answer her . She studied and commented on every ...
... never intended for publication - that she re- garded the advent of a letter from him as an event of supreme importance . She was in agony when , for some unforeseen reason , he failed to answer her . She studied and commented on every ...
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... never exalt the Poet , in whom the world are still more interested . You see you were not mistaken in thinking I really wished to serve the Rustic Bard , and to preserve him an honour to my country . — I am , Sir , your most humble ...
... never exalt the Poet , in whom the world are still more interested . You see you were not mistaken in thinking I really wished to serve the Rustic Bard , and to preserve him an honour to my country . — I am , Sir , your most humble ...
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... never knew any man so keen to serve those he takes a fancy to , and very few have so much in their power . But what will perhaps tempt you more than self- respecting views , he is one of the cleverest men in Britain , and owes more to ...
... never knew any man so keen to serve those he takes a fancy to , and very few have so much in their power . But what will perhaps tempt you more than self- respecting views , he is one of the cleverest men in Britain , and owes more to ...
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... never think of buying into the army , unless you can command at least £ 250 more than the £ 400 which is the regulated price . I am sure I am right in this , and , if I saw you , could convince you by a thousand reasons . At any rate ...
... never think of buying into the army , unless you can command at least £ 250 more than the £ 400 which is the regulated price . I am sure I am right in this , and , if I saw you , could convince you by a thousand reasons . At any rate ...
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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.