Early Critical Reviews on Robert BurnsW. Hodge, 1900 - 313 sider |
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... speak their native dialect , and that with an elegance and poignancy of which Scotsmen of the present day can have no just notion . I am old enough to have conversed with Mr. Spittal of Leuchat , a scholar and a man of fashion , who ...
... speak their native dialect , and that with an elegance and poignancy of which Scotsmen of the present day can have no just notion . I am old enough to have conversed with Mr. Spittal of Leuchat , a scholar and a man of fashion , who ...
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... speaking , few writers who have excelled in humour . But this observation is true only * In the Supplement to the Encyclopædia Britannica . See also , Campbell's Introduction to the History of Poetry in Scotland , p . 288 . when applied ...
... speaking , few writers who have excelled in humour . But this observation is true only * In the Supplement to the Encyclopædia Britannica . See also , Campbell's Introduction to the History of Poetry in Scotland , p . 288 . when applied ...
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... speak more correctly , in rural poetry of a serious nature , Burns excelled equally as in that of a humorous kind , and , using less of the Scottish dialect in his serious poems , he becomes more generally intelligible . It is difficult ...
... speak more correctly , in rural poetry of a serious nature , Burns excelled equally as in that of a humorous kind , and , using less of the Scottish dialect in his serious poems , he becomes more generally intelligible . It is difficult ...
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... speak . Burns has nowhere imitated them - a circumstance to be regretted - since in this species of com- position , from its admitting the more terrible as well as the softer graces of poetry , he was eminently qualified to have ...
... speak . Burns has nowhere imitated them - a circumstance to be regretted - since in this species of com- position , from its admitting the more terrible as well as the softer graces of poetry , he was eminently qualified to have ...
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... speaking of the natural objects that may be employed to give interest to the descriptions of passion , she observes , They present an inexhaustible variety , from the Song of Solomon , breathing of cassia , myrrh , and cinna- mon , to ...
... speaking of the natural objects that may be employed to give interest to the descriptions of passion , she observes , They present an inexhaustible variety , from the Song of Solomon , breathing of cassia , myrrh , and cinna- mon , to ...
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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.