| Robert Burns - 1871 - 516 sider
...pieces on hand ; taking up one or other as it suited the momentary tone of my mind, and dismissing the work as it bordered on fatigue. My passions, when...the eldest of my printed pieces ; The death of poor Mailie ; John Barleycorn, and Songs in and in." [in Edinburgh edition.] — Autobiography. The tleath... | |
| Hippolyte Taine - 1871 - 564 sider
...to the fashion : 1 See a passage from Burns' commonplace-book in Chambers' Life of Burnt, i. 93. ' My passions, when once lighted up, raged like so many...over my verses, like a spell, soothed all into quiet. ' 1 He hummed them, as he drove his plough, to old Scotch airs, which he passionately loved, and which,... | |
| Hippolyte Taine - 1871 - 586 sider
...pursues it to the end. AVhen he wrote verses, it was not on calculation or in obedience to the fashion: ' My passions, when once lighted up, raged like so many...conning over my verses, like a spell, soothed all into quiet.'1 He hummed them, as he drove his plough, to old Scotch airs, which he passionately loved, and... | |
| Hippolyte Adolphe Taine - 1871 - 570 sider
...to the fashion : 1 See a passage from Burns' commonplace-book in Chambers' Life of Burns, i. 93. ' My passions, when once lighted up, raged like so many...conning over my verses, like a spell, soothed all into quiet.'1 He hummed them, as he drove his plough, to old Scotch airs, which he passionately loved, and... | |
| Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1872 - 740 sider
...hour. I had usually half-a-dozen or more pieces on hand; I took up one or the other, as it suited the momentary tone of the mind, and dismissed the work...my verses, like a spell, soothed all into quiet." Meanwhile, in his twenty-third year, he attempted a diversion from the rugged home agricultural life,... | |
| Hippolyte Taine - 1874 - 568 sider
...the fashion : 1 See a passage from Burns' commonplace-book in Chambers' L\fe of Burns, L93. • Ify passions, when once lighted up, raged like so many...conning over my verses, like a spell, soothed all into quiet.'1 He hummed them, as he drove his plough, to old Scotch airs, which he passionately loved, and... | |
| James Cargill Guthrie - 1875 - 552 sider
...hour. I had usually half-a-dozen or more pieces on hand ; I took up one or other, as it suited the momentary tone of the mind, and dismissed the work...over my verses, like a spell, soothed all into quiet ! " It was under a passionate spell of heroic inspiration, he also informs us, that while riding over... | |
| James Cargill Guthrie - 1875 - 550 sider
...hour. I had usually half-a-dozen or more pieces on hand ; I took up one or other, as it suited the momentary tone of the mind, and dismissed the work...over my verses, like a spell, soothed all into quiet ! " It was under a passionate spell of heroic inspiration, he also informs us, that while riding over... | |
| Addison Peale Russell - 1875 - 416 sider
...— brought me to my sixteenth year ; a little before which period I first committed the sin of rhyme My passions, when once lighted up, raged like so many...my verses, like a spell, soothed all into quiet." We are told that among the companions of Reynolds, when he was studying his art at Rome, was a fellow-pupil... | |
| Robert Burns - 1876 - 540 sider
...more pieces on hand; taking up one or other as it suited the momentary tone of my mind, and dismissing the work as it bordered on fatigue. My passions, when...the eldest of my printed pieces; The death of poor Mailie; John Barleycorn, and Songs I. n. and m." [in Edinburgh edition.]—Autobiography. The death... | |
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