Early Critical Reviews on Robert BurnsW. Hodge, 1900 - 313 sider |
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... reflection , great independence of sentiment , and gener- osity of heart . It is to be regretted that in his Holy Fair , and in some of his other poems , his humour degenerates into personal satire , and that it is not sufficiently ...
... reflection , great independence of sentiment , and gener- osity of heart . It is to be regretted that in his Holy Fair , and in some of his other poems , his humour degenerates into personal satire , and that it is not sufficiently ...
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... reflections beau- tiful , and arising directly out of the occasion ; and in the conclusion there is a deep melancholy , a sentiment of doubt and dread , that rises to the sublime . The Address to a Mountain Daisy , turned down with the ...
... reflections beau- tiful , and arising directly out of the occasion ; and in the conclusion there is a deep melancholy , a sentiment of doubt and dread , that rises to the sublime . The Address to a Mountain Daisy , turned down with the ...
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... reflection . The mourner compares the fury of the elements with that of man to his brother man , and finds the former light in the balance . See stern Oppression's iron grip , Or mad Ambition's gory hand , Sending , like blood - hounds ...
... reflection . The mourner compares the fury of the elements with that of man to his brother man , and finds the former light in the balance . See stern Oppression's iron grip , Or mad Ambition's gory hand , Sending , like blood - hounds ...
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... reflections are often solemn , pathetic , and perspicacious . But it is , perhaps , in his humorous and satirical poems that he appears to most advantage . Nature had endowed him with an uncommon degree of sagacity ; and his perpetual ...
... reflections are often solemn , pathetic , and perspicacious . But it is , perhaps , in his humorous and satirical poems that he appears to most advantage . Nature had endowed him with an uncommon degree of sagacity ; and his perpetual ...
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... reflection . But this apology , which is quite unsatisfactory in the mouth of another , becomes an insult and an absurdity whenever it proceeds from their own . A man may say of his friend that he is a noble - hearted fellow - too ...
... reflection . But this apology , which is quite unsatisfactory in the mouth of another , becomes an insult and an absurdity whenever it proceeds from their own . A man may say of his friend that he is a noble - hearted fellow - too ...
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Side 55 - But hark ! a rap comes gently to the door ; Jenny, wha kens the meaning o' the same, Tells how a neebor lad cam' o'er the moor, To do some errands, and convoy her hame. The wily mother sees the conscious flame Sparkle in Jenny's e'e, and flush her cheek ; With heart-struck anxious care, inquires his name, While Jenny hafflins is afraid to speak : Weel pleased the mother hears it's nae wild, worthless rake. Wi...
Side 78 - Blythe Jenny sees the visit's no ill ta'en ; The father cracks of horses, pleughs, and kye. The youngster's artless heart o'erflows wi...
Side 73 - 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.
Side 223 - That hangs his head, and a' that ? The coward-slave, we pass him by, We dare be poor for a' that ! For a' that, and a' that, Our toils obscure, and a' that ; The rank is but the guinea stamp ; The man's the gowd for a
Side 5 - Unskilful he to note the card Of prudent lore, Till billows rage, and gales blow hard, And whelm him o'er ! Such fate to suffering worth is...
Side 78 - His wee bit ingle, blinkin bonnily, His clean hearth-stane, his thriftie wifie's smile, The lisping infant prattling on his knee, Does a' his weary carking cares beguile, An' makes him quite forget his labour an' his toil. Belyve the elder bairns come drapping in, At service out, amang the farmers roun
Side 61 - Wha will be a traitor knave ? Wha can fill a coward's grave ? Wha sae base as be a slave? Let him turn and flee ! Wha for Scotland's king and law Freedom's sword will strongly draw, Freeman stand, or freeman fa...
Side 80 - mang the dewy weet ! Wi' spreckl'd breast, "When upward-springing, blythe, to greet, The purpling east. Cauld blew the bitter-biting north Upon thy early, humble birth ; Yet cheerfully thou glinted forth Amid the storm, Scarce rear'd above the parent earth Thy tender form. The flaunting flowers our gardens yield, High shelt'ring woods and wa's maun shield ; But thou, beneath the random bield O' clod or stane, Adorns the histie stibble-field Unseen, alane.
Side 78 - The sire turns o'er, wi' patriarchal grace, The big ha' Bible, ance his father's pride: His bonnet rev'rently is laid aside, His lyart haffets wearing thin an' bare; .Those strains that once did sweet in Zion glide, He wales a portion with judicious care ; And ' Let us worship God !* he says, with solemn air.
Side 114 - Had we never loved sae kindly, Had we never loved sae blindly, Never met, or never parted, We had ne'er been broken-hearted.