The London Quarterly Review, Volumen1Theodore Foster, 1810 |
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... nature of the subject , and something to the education of the poet : and if from veneration to the names of Swift and Dryden , we tolerate the grossness of the one , and the indelicacy of the other , the respect due to that of Burns ...
... nature of the subject , and something to the education of the poet : and if from veneration to the names of Swift and Dryden , we tolerate the grossness of the one , and the indelicacy of the other , the respect due to that of Burns ...
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... natural expressions of feeling and passion , are less frequent in the letters of Burns than perhaps of any other professed writer . Burns was in truth the child of passion and feel- ing . His character was not simply that of a peasant ...
... natural expressions of feeling and passion , are less frequent in the letters of Burns than perhaps of any other professed writer . Burns was in truth the child of passion and feel- ing . His character was not simply that of a peasant ...
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... nature first made man , Ere the base laws of servitude began , When wild in woods the noble savage ran . ' In general society Burns often permitted his determination of vin- dicating his personal dignity to hurry him into unjustifiable ...
... nature first made man , Ere the base laws of servitude began , When wild in woods the noble savage ran . ' In general society Burns often permitted his determination of vin- dicating his personal dignity to hurry him into unjustifiable ...
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... nature of both , seems to have been long the cherished wish of Burns . He had even fixed on the subject , which was an adventure in low life , said to have hap- pened to Robert Bruce , while wandering in danger and disguise after being ...
... nature of both , seems to have been long the cherished wish of Burns . He had even fixed on the subject , which was an adventure in low life , said to have hap- pened to Robert Bruce , while wandering in danger and disguise after being ...
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... nature , to admit supernatural objects . In consequence of this mistake , in a very admirable picture of a Storm , which I have seen of his hand , many figures are introduced in the foreground , some in apparent distress , and some ...
... nature , to admit supernatural objects . In consequence of this mistake , in a very admirable picture of a Storm , which I have seen of his hand , many figures are introduced in the foreground , some in apparent distress , and some ...
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Página 30 - Had we never loved sae kindly, Had we never loved sae blindly, Never met, or never parted, We had ne'er been broken-hearted.
Página 23 - I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran.
Página 212 - As monumental bronze unchanged his look : A soul that pity touch'd, but never shook : Train'd, from his tree-rock'd cradle to his bier, The fierce extremes of good and ill to brook Impassive — fearing but the shame of fear — A stoic of the woods — a man without a tear.
Página 69 - ... in comparison. Then would he add certain praises by telling what a peerless beast the horse was, the only serviceable courtier, without flattery, the beast of most beauty, faithfulness, courage, and such more, that if I had not been a piece of a logician before I came to him, I think he would have persuaded me to have wished myself a horse.
Página 84 - British earth, that the ground on which he treads is holy, and consecrated by the genius of UNIVERSAL EMANCIPATION. No matter in what language his doom may have been pronounced ; — no matter what complexion incompatible with freedom, an Indian or an African sun may have burnt upon him ; — no matter in what disastrous battle his liberty may have been cloven down ; — no matter with what solemnities he may have been devoted upon the altar of slavery ; the first moment he touches the sacred soil...
Página 18 - With the ready trick and fable Round we wander all the day; And at night, in barn or stable, Hug our doxies on the hay. A fig &c. Does the train-attended carriage Thro
Página 211 - The orison repeated in his arms, For God to bless her sire and all mankind ! The book, the bosom on his knee...
Página 242 - ... which was numerous and poor. Domingos therefore took a house for her, and removed to it for the purpose of contributing to the comfort of her latter days. Some of his friends represented to him that this was a rash undertaking for one who had no certain income, and no other reliance than on Providence ; to which he replied, that Providence, by which all things had their being, which provided for the fowls of the air and the beasts of the field, and which he beheld shining in the stars and vegetating...
Página 300 - Next in three books spoil'd human nature : Undid Creation at a jerk, And of Redemption made damn'd work. Then took his Muse at once, and dipt her Full in the middle of the Scripture. What wonders there the man, grown old, did ? Sternhold himself he out Sternholded. Made David seem so mad and freakish, All thought him just what thought King Achish. No mortal read his Solomon But judg'd Re'boam his own son. Moses...
Página 217 - The grief that knew not consolation's name : Casting his Indian mantle o'er the youth, He watch'd, beneath its folds, each burst that came Convulsive, ague-like across his shuddering frame ! 71 XXXV.