Robert Burns and Mrs. Dunlop: Correspondence Now Published in Full for the First Time, Volumen1Dodd, Mead, 1898 |
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... soul ! A letter assigned conjecturally to Miss Rachel Dunlop as recipient contains an even more remark- able and interesting protest against original sin . The value of the Lochryan MSS . for textual and critical purposes is very great ...
... soul ! A letter assigned conjecturally to Miss Rachel Dunlop as recipient contains an even more remark- able and interesting protest against original sin . The value of the Lochryan MSS . for textual and critical purposes is very great ...
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... soul and con- science , that I regard it as a singular honour and happiness , nay , one of those upon which I have ever valued myself most , that you think my health or me worth being interested in , or preferring a warm re- quest to be ...
... soul and con- science , that I regard it as a singular honour and happiness , nay , one of those upon which I have ever valued myself most , that you think my health or me worth being interested in , or preferring a warm re- quest to be ...
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... soul which are of no use , only abso- lutely disqualifying for the truly important business of making a man's way into life . " In all accounts of the Dunlop family , Anthony figures as an officer in the Navy . The references to him in ...
... soul which are of no use , only abso- lutely disqualifying for the truly important business of making a man's way into life . " In all accounts of the Dunlop family , Anthony figures as an officer in the Navy . The references to him in ...
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... soul set about it . I know his fame and character , and I am one of " the sons of little men . " To write him a mere matter - of - fact affair , like a merchant's order , would be disgracing the little character I have ; and to write ...
... soul set about it . I know his fame and character , and I am one of " the sons of little men . " To write him a mere matter - of - fact affair , like a merchant's order , would be disgracing the little character I have ; and to write ...
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... soul set about it . I know his fame and character , and I am one of " the sons of little men . " To write him a mere matter - of - fact affair , like a merchant's order , would be disgracing the little character I have ; and to write ...
... soul set about it . I know his fame and character , and I am one of " the sons of little men . " To write him a mere matter - of - fact affair , like a merchant's order , would be disgracing the little character I have ; and to write ...
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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.