Memorials of Robert Burns and His Contemporaries with Selections from His Poems1876 - 422 pages |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 43
Page 8
... hills and for many a well - fought field , and their merits are acknowledged south of the Tweed , with the exception , perhaps , of one chieftain , under whose plain uninviting exterior there is warmth of heart — a solid substantial ...
... hills and for many a well - fought field , and their merits are acknowledged south of the Tweed , with the exception , perhaps , of one chieftain , under whose plain uninviting exterior there is warmth of heart — a solid substantial ...
Page 21
... hills fan and revive his languid frame , -to see the well - known river , to hear the dash of its waterfalls , and listen to the murmuring flow of its crystal streams at the magic touch of genius . And if among heathen temples , and ...
... hills fan and revive his languid frame , -to see the well - known river , to hear the dash of its waterfalls , and listen to the murmuring flow of its crystal streams at the magic touch of genius . And if among heathen temples , and ...
Page 30
... hills and woods , it is not so much on " account of the properties with which they are abso- lutely endowed as relatively to local patriotic remem- ' brances and associations , or as they are ministerial " to personal feelings ...
... hills and woods , it is not so much on " account of the properties with which they are abso- lutely endowed as relatively to local patriotic remem- ' brances and associations , or as they are ministerial " to personal feelings ...
Page 34
... Hills with Nasmyth , the artist , painter of his well- known portrait , watching the sunrise , and the lights and shadows of early morning on sea and land , the ancient city , the shores of the Firth of Forth , and the distant mountains ...
... Hills with Nasmyth , the artist , painter of his well- known portrait , watching the sunrise , and the lights and shadows of early morning on sea and land , the ancient city , the shores of the Firth of Forth , and the distant mountains ...
Page 37
... hills , and dales between the metropolis and the border , and a part of Northumberland . He took an excursion with Mr. Adair , of Harrowgate , between the Forth and the Highlands , when he made a pilgrimage to the tomb of Bruce at ...
... hills , and dales between the metropolis and the border , and a part of Northumberland . He took an excursion with Mr. Adair , of Harrowgate , between the Forth and the Highlands , when he made a pilgrimage to the tomb of Bruce at ...
Other editions - View all
Memorials of Robert Burns and His Contemporaries with Selections from His Poems P F Aiken No preview available - 2016 |
Common terms and phrases
Afton amang APPENDIX NOTE auld auld lang syne Ayrshire banks bard beautiful Birks of Aberfeldy blaw blest bonnie bonnie Lass bosom braes BRIGS brother Burns cauld charm Cotter's Saturday Night Cunningham Dalrymple daughter dear death Doonholm Dugald Stewart e'er Edinburgh Ellisland EPISTLE Ev'n fair Farewell Fête Champêtre flowers frae glen grace ha'e Halloween hame happy hear heart Highland hills honour James Jean King lass lassie letter lived Lord Lord Cockburn mair married Mary maun mony morning mourn Muse Nature's ne'er never o'er owre pleasure poems poet poetry poor pride rhyme river Ayr roar Robert Aiken Robert Burns Scotland Scottish Shaw sing song soul stream sweet syne Tam O'Shanter tears thee thou thought thro unco verse wander weary weel Whyles wild winds wrote
Popular passages
Page 223 - Then kneeling down to Heaven's Eternal King, The saint, the father, and the husband prays; Hope 'springs exulting on triumphant wing,' That thus they all shall meet in future days, There ever bask in uncreated rays, No more to sigh or shed the bitter tear, Together hymning their Creator's praise, In such society, yet still more dear, While circling Time moves round in an eternal sphere.
Page 94 - He was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul, All the images of Nature were still present to him, and he drew them, not laboriously, but luckily: when he describes any thing, you more than see it, you feel it too.
Page 223 - And decks the lily fair in flow'ry pride, Would, in the way His wisdom sees the best, For them and for their little ones provide; But, chiefly, in their hearts with Grace Divine preside.
Page 224 - And oh ! may Heaven their simple lives prevent From luxury's contagion, weak and vile ! Then, howe'er crowns and coronets be rent, A virtuous populace may rise the while, And stand a wall of fire around their much-loved Isle. O Thou! who pour'd the patriotic tide That stream'd thro...
Page 221 - What makes the youth sae bashfu' an' sae grave ; Weel pleas'd to think her bairn's respected like the lave. O happy love ! where love like this is found ! O heart-felt raptures ! bliss beyond compare ! I've paced much this weary, mortal round, And sage experience bids me this declare: — "If Heaven a draught of heavenly pleasure spare, One cordial in this melancholy vale, 'Tis when a youthful, loving, modest pair, In other's arms breathe out the tender tale, Beneath the milk-white thorn that scents...
Page 257 - Thou's met me in an evil hour ; For I maun crush amang the stoure Thy slender stem : To spare thee now is past my pow'r, Thou bonnie gem. Alas ! it's no thy neebor sweet, The bonnie lark, companion meet, Bending thee 'mang the dewy weet ! Wi' speckl'd breast, When upward-springing, blythe, to greet, The purpling east.
Page 222 - 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.
Page 58 - Tho' they may gang a kennin wrang, To step aside is human : One point must still be greatly dark, The moving Why they do it ; And just as lamely can ye mark, How far perhaps they rue it. Who made the heart, 'tis He alone Decidedly can try us, He knows each chord its various tone, Each spring its various bias : Then at the balance let's be mute, We never can adjust it ; What's done we partly may compute, But know not what's resisted.
Page 393 - Our toils obscure, and a' that ; The rank is but the guinea stamp ; The man's the gowd for a' that. What tho' on hamely fare we dine, Wear hodden gray, and a' that ; Gie fools their silks, and knaves their wine, A man's a man for a
Page 391 - YE banks, and braes, and streams around The castle o' Montgomery, Green be your woods, and fair your flowers, Your waters never drumlie ! There simmer first unfauld her robes, And there the langest tarry ; For there I took the last fareweel O