Robert Burns and Mrs. Dunlop: Correspondence Now Published in Full for the First Time, Volumen1Dodd, Mead, 1898 |
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... wish you would name me to her office . " Although Burns did not appoint her to the " office , " she appointed herself . In her letters she appears , as has already been said , as his constant and sometimes even ruth- less critic ...
... wish you would name me to her office . " Although Burns did not appoint her to the " office , " she appointed herself . In her letters she appears , as has already been said , as his constant and sometimes even ruth- less critic ...
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... wish to be able to make a Song in him equal to his merits . . I have only been able to find your five lepees : they are all I can command . I am thinking to go to Edinburgh in & Week or two at farthest to throw off a second Impression ...
... wish to be able to make a Song in him equal to his merits . . I have only been able to find your five lepees : they are all I can command . I am thinking to go to Edinburgh in & Week or two at farthest to throw off a second Impression ...
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... wish to be able to make a song on him equal to his merits . I have only been able to find you five copies : they are all I can command . I am thinking to go to Edinburgh in a week or two at farthest , to throw off a second Impression of ...
... wish to be able to make a song on him equal to his merits . I have only been able to find you five copies : they are all I can command . I am thinking to go to Edinburgh in a week or two at farthest , to throw off a second Impression of ...
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... . Moore , whose keen passions must at once admire the poet , esteem the moral- ist , and wish to be usefull to the author . I am perfectly sensible ' t is not fair to 4 Correspondence between (1) Leglen Wood is on the banks of ...
... . Moore , whose keen passions must at once admire the poet , esteem the moral- ist , and wish to be usefull to the author . I am perfectly sensible ' t is not fair to 4 Correspondence between (1) Leglen Wood is on the banks of ...
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... wish you to catch no one thing from Thomson , unless it were the resolution with which he plucked up every one of those luxuriant weeds that will be rising in too rich a soil , and from which I would be glad to see you wholly exempt ...
... wish you to catch no one thing from Thomson , unless it were the resolution with which he plucked up every one of those luxuriant weeds that will be rising in too rich a soil , and from which I would be glad to see you wholly exempt ...
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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.