The Poetical Works of Robert BurnsHoughton, Mifflin, 1882 - 299 páginas |
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... Minds To Mary in Heaven To Mary 21 ! 215 216 O leave Novels Address to General Dumourier . A Parody on Robin Adair Sweetest May .. One Night as I did wander .. 216 216 216 216 The Winter it is past Fragment .. .. 217 217 The Chevalier's ...
... Minds To Mary in Heaven To Mary 21 ! 215 216 O leave Novels Address to General Dumourier . A Parody on Robin Adair Sweetest May .. One Night as I did wander .. 216 216 216 216 The Winter it is past Fragment .. .. 217 217 The Chevalier's ...
Página xxiv
... mind that apprehensive power , By which she is made quick to recognize The moral properties and scope of things . " Burns tells us , in his delightful " Confessions " - " In my infant and boyish days , too , I owed much to an old woman ...
... mind that apprehensive power , By which she is made quick to recognize The moral properties and scope of things . " Burns tells us , in his delightful " Confessions " - " In my infant and boyish days , too , I owed much to an old woman ...
Página xxvii
... mind was growing into shape . He was familiar with the " Spectator , " and he carried a collection of songs in all his field - work , poring over them as he drove his cart . Slowly , too , the outward man improved , and a spreading ...
... mind was growing into shape . He was familiar with the " Spectator , " and he carried a collection of songs in all his field - work , poring over them as he drove his cart . Slowly , too , the outward man improved , and a spreading ...
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... mind ; -these were his motives for courting the Muses , and in these he found Poetry to be its own reward . " Now that he appears in the public character of an author , he does it with fea and trembling . So dear is fame to the rhyming ...
... mind ; -these were his motives for courting the Muses , and in these he found Poetry to be its own reward . " Now that he appears in the public character of an author , he does it with fea and trembling . So dear is fame to the rhyming ...
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... mind . " Within - doors , the " fine family piece " was not less charming . To Gilbert he sent a letter from Edinburgh , September 16 , 1787 . " I arrived here safe yesterday evening , after a tour of twenty - two days , and travelling ...
... mind . " Within - doors , the " fine family piece " was not less charming . To Gilbert he sent a letter from Edinburgh , September 16 , 1787 . " I arrived here safe yesterday evening , after a tour of twenty - two days , and travelling ...
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Palavras e frases frequentes
aboon amang auld auld lang syne baith banks Bard Birks of Aberfeldy blast blaw blest bonnie lass bosom braes braw breast Burns canna cauld charms CHORUS claut dear dearie Deil Dumfries e'en e'er Ev'n ev'ry fair Farewell fate Fête Champêtre flower frae Gavin Hamilton glen guid hame heart Heaven Highland Highland laddie honest ilka Jamie laddie lassie lo'es Lord Mary Mauchline maun monie morning mourn Muse nae mair nane ne'er never night o'er owre pleasure poet poor pow'r pride roar sang Scotland sing skelpin song sorrow soul sweet Syne tears tell thee There's thou hast thro thyme TUNE unco wander weary weel Whare Whigs whistle Whyles wild Willie wind winna ye'll ye're young
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Página 6 - 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 !
Página 6 - As fair art thou, my bonnie lass, So deep in luve am I, And I will luve thee still, my dear, Till a' the seas gang dry. Till a" the seas gang dry, my dear, And the rocks melt wi
Página 6 - Of a' the airts the wind can blaw I dearly like the West, For there the bonnie lassie lives, The lassie I lo'e best : There wild woods grow, and rivers row, And mony a hill between ; But day and night my fancy's flight Is ever wi' my Jean. I see her in the dewy flowers, I see her sweet and fair : I hear her in the tunefu...
Página 10 - My heart's in the Highlands wherever I go. Farewell to the Highlands, farewell to the North, The birthplace of...
Página 5 - But to conclude my silly rhyme, (I'm scant o' verse, and scant o' time,) To make a happy fire-side clime To weans and wife, That's the true pathos and sublime Of human life.
Página 6 - CHORUS. For auld lang syne, my dear, For auld lang syne, We'll tak a cup o...