 | Paul Henderson Scott - 1998 - 132 páginas
...both in the Preface to the Kilmarnock edition to the inscription which he placed on Fergusson's grave: "My elder brother in misfortune / By far my elder brother in the muse." Like Burns, Ramsay and Fergusson wrote in Scots, and like him again, both were strongly nationalist... | |
 | Paul Henderson Scott - 2003 - 372 páginas
...both in the Preface to the Kilmarnock edition to the inscription which he placed on Fergusson's grave: "My elder brother in misfortune / By far my elder brother in the muse." Like Burns, Ramsay and Fergusson wrote in Scots, and like him again, both were strongly nationalist... | |
 | 2003 - 664 páginas
...to do in shaping the bent of his poetical genius. Burns thus apostrophizes his precursor: "Oh thou my elder brother in misfortune By far my elder brother in the muses, With tears I pity thy unhappy fate." In 1787 Burns sought out the unmarked frave of Fergusson... | |
 | Washington University (Saint Louis, Mo.) - 1925 - 448 páginas
...craftsman is apostrophized by his disciple. Under Fergusson's picture Burns penned this lament: 0 thou, my elder brother in misfortune, By far my elder brother in the Muse, With tears I pity thy unhappy fate! And he waxed furious at the public indifference shown to the master's... | |
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CURSE on ungrateful man, that can be pleas'd, And yet can starve the author of the pleasure ! O thou, my elder brother in misfortune, By far my elder brother in the Muses... 
