The World's Cyclopedia of Biography, Volume 1J. B. Alden, 1883 - Biography |
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... Burns must be great indeed ; for , during the eighty years that have passed since his death , men's interest in the man himself and their estimate of his genius have been steadily increasing . Each decade since he died has produced at ...
... Burns must be great indeed ; for , during the eighty years that have passed since his death , men's interest in the man himself and their estimate of his genius have been steadily increasing . Each decade since he died has produced at ...
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... Burns had many hardships to endure , but he never reckoned this to be one of them. ̧ His father , William Burness or Burnes , for so he spelt his name , was a native not of Ayrshire , but of Kincardineshire , where he had been reared on ...
... Burns had many hardships to endure , but he never reckoned this to be one of them. ̧ His father , William Burness or Burnes , for so he spelt his name , was a native not of Ayrshire , but of Kincardineshire , where he had been reared on ...
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... Burns might have grown up the rude and clownish and unpopular lad that he has been pictured in his early teens . But in his fifteenth sum- mer there came to him a new influence , which at one touch un- locked the springs of new emotions ...
... Burns might have grown up the rude and clownish and unpopular lad that he has been pictured in his early teens . But in his fifteenth sum- mer there came to him a new influence , which at one touch un- locked the springs of new emotions ...
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... Burns , who admired him for what he thought his independence and magnanimity . " He was , " says Burns , " the only man I ever knew who was a greater fool than myself , where woman was the presiding star ; but he spoke of lawless love ...
... Burns , who admired him for what he thought his independence and magnanimity . " He was , " says Burns , " the only man I ever knew who was a greater fool than myself , where woman was the presiding star ; but he spoke of lawless love ...
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... Burns entered on it with a firm resolution to be prudent , industrious , and thrifty . In his own words , " I read farming books , I calculated crops , I attended markets , and , in short , in spite of the devil , the world , and the ...
... Burns entered on it with a firm resolution to be prudent , industrious , and thrifty . In his own words , " I read farming books , I calculated crops , I attended markets , and , in short , in spite of the devil , the world , and the ...
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Page 88 - ... an inward prompting which now grew daily upon me, that by labour and intent study, which I take to be my portion in- this life, joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to after-times, as they should not willingly let it die.
Page 83 - Tread those reviving passions down, Unworthy manhood! — unto thee Indifferent should the smile or frown Of beauty be. If thou regret'st thy youth, why live? The land of honourable death Is here: — up to the field, and give Away thy breath! Seek out — less often sought than found — A soldier's grave, for thee the best; Then look around and choose thy ground, And take thy rest.
Page 38 - I was confirmed in this opinion, that he, who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem...
Page 118 - Yet, be it less or more, or soon or slow, It shall be still in strictest measure even To that same lot, however mean or high, Toward which Time leads me, and the will of Heaven ; All is, if I have grace to use it so, As ever in my great Task-Master's eye.
Page 68 - Wi' thee to reign, wi' thee to reign, The brightest jewel in my crown Wad be my queen, wad be my queen.
Page 122 - Near this spot Are deposited the Remains Of one Who Possessed Beauty Without Vanity, Strength without Insolence, Courage without Ferocity, And all the Virtues of Man Without his Vices. This Praise, which would be unmeaning flattery If inscribed over Human Ashes, Is but a just tribute to the Memory of "Boatswain," a Dog Who was born at Newfoundland, May, 1803, And died at Newstead Abbey Nov. 18, 1808.
Page 20 - 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
Page 64 - We are not now that strength which in old days Moved earth and heaven ; that which we are, we are; One equal temper of heroic hearts, Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
Page 35 - The bridegroom may forget the bride Was made his wedded wife yestreen ; The monarch may forget the crown ' That on his head an hour has been ; The mother may forget the child That smiles sae sweetly on her knee ; But I'll remember thee, Glencairn, And a' that thou hast done for me ! " LINES, SENT TO SIR JOHN WHITEFORD, OF WHITEFORD, BART.
Page 10 - To hear the lark begin his flight And singing startle the dull night From his watch-tower in the skies, Till the dappled dawn doth rise ; Then to come, in spite of sorrow, And at my window bid good-morrow Through the sweetbriar, or the vine, Or the twisted eglantine...