| Robert Burns - 1800 - 424 páginas
...progress of his mind, and its first expansion to the lessons of the tutelary muse. " I saw thy pulses maddening play, " Wild send thee pleasure's devious...the light that led astray, " Was light from Heaven." Vol. iii. p. 110. " I have already transgressed far beyond the bounds I had proposed to myself, on... | |
| 1809 - 530 páginas
...grateful to thy tongue, Th' adored Name, I taught thee how to pour in song, To sooth thy flarne. «' I saw thy pulse's maddening play, Wild send thee Pleasure's devious way, Misled by Fancy's meteor-ray, , By Passion driven ; But yet the light that led astray Was light from heaven. There is... | |
| Robert Burns - 1806 - 422 páginas
...almost unique for simplicity and beautiful poetry, wit ; h these lines: " I saw thy pulse's madd'ning play Wild send thee pleasure's devious way; Misled...yet the light that led astray, Was light from heaven .'"* " I have already transgressed beyond the bounds I had proposed to myself, on first committing... | |
| Robert Burns - 1806 - 422 páginas
...poetry, with these lines : " I saw thy pulse's madd'ning play Wild send thee pleasure's devious way 5 Misled by Fancy's meteor ray, By passion driven ;...yet the light that led astray, Was light from heaven !"* " I have already transgressed beyond the bounds I had proposed to myself, on first committing this... | |
| Robert Burns, Thomas Park - 1808 - 330 páginas
...grateful to thy tongue, Th' adored Name, I taught thee how to pour in song, To soothe thy flame. ' I saw thy pulse's maddening play Wild send thee pleasure's devious way, Misled by fancy's meteor-ray, By passion driven; But yet the light that led astray Was light from heaven ! ' I taught... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 366 páginas
...accents, grateful to thy tongue, Th' adored name, I taught thee how to pour in song, To sooth thy flame. I saw thy pulse's maddening play, Wild, send thee Pleasure's devious way, Misled by fancy's meteor.ray, By Passion driven ; But yet the light that led astray Was light from heaven. Of strains... | |
| Henry Mackenzie - 1808 - 440 páginas
...saw thy pulse's maddening play, Wild, send thee Pleasure's devious way, Misled by Fancy's meteor-ray, By Passion driven; But yet the light that led astray Was light from heaven. Of strains like the above, solemn and sublime, with that rapt and inspired melancholy in which the... | |
| 1809 - 574 páginas
...grateful to thy tongue, Th' adored name, I taught tliee how to pour in song, To soothe thy flame. * I saw thy pulse's maddening play Wild send thee Pleasure's devious way, Misled by fancy's meteor my, By passion driven ; But yet the light -which led astray Was light from Heaven.' / • * To these... | |
| 1810 - 438 páginas
...gentleman. We may dismiss these reflections on the character of Bums with his own beautiful lines. * I saw thy pulse's maddening play, Wild send thee pleasure's devious way, By passion driven : i. . .. ; , But yet the light that led astray, Was light from heaven.' The second... | |
| Robert Burns - 1811 - 500 páginas
...grateful to thy tongue, ' Th' adored name,. f I taught thee how to pour in song, * To soothe thy flame. ' I saw thy pulse's maddening play, ' Wild send thee pleasure's devious way, Misled by fancy's meteor-ray, ' By passion driven j ' But yet the light that led astray ' Was light from heaven. * I... | |
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