 | Robert Burns - 1800 - 424 trang
...still more by his private conversation, than he had ever done in company. He was passionately fond of the beauties of nature ; and I recollect once he...the happiness and the worth which they contained. .. . " In his political principles he was then a Jacobite ; which was perhaps owing partly to this,... | |
 | David Irving - 1804 - 524 trang
...our morning walks, that the sight of so many smoking cottages gave . a pleasure to his mind, wrhich none could understand who had not witnessed like himself,...the happiness and the worth which they contained." With such impresions as these upon his mini!, he has succeed• ed in delineating a charming picture... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1806 - 422 trang
...nature ; and I recollect once he told me, when I was admiring a distant prospect in ROBERT BURNS. 139 one of our morning walks, that the sight of so many...the happiness and the worth which they contained. " In his political principles he was then a Jacobite; which was perhaps owing partly to this, that... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1806 - 422 trang
...beauties of nature ; and I recollect once he told me, when' I was admiring a distant prospect in one one of our morning walks, that the sight of so many...the happiness and the worth which they contained. " In his political principles he was then a Jacobite; which was perhaps owing partly to this, that... | |
 | Robert Burns, James Currie - 1814 - 502 trang
...morning walks, that the sight of so many smoking eottages gave a pleasure to his mind, whieh none eould understand who had not witnessed, like himself, the happiness and the worth whieh they eontained. " In his politieal prineiples he was then a Jaeohite ; whieh was perhaps owing... | |
 | 1827 - 798 trang
...the town, when he charmed me still more by his private conversation than he had ever done in writing. I recollect once he told me, when I was admiring a...the happiness and the worth which they contained." None but himself assuredly could have written such a Cotter's Saturday Night — and such songs —so... | |
 | Constable and co, ltd - 1826 - 734 trang
...distant prospect in one of our morning walks, that the sight of so many smoking cottages gave apleasureto his mind which none could understand who had not witnessed,...the happiness and the worth which they contained." Burns was far too busy with society and observation to find time for poetical composition, during this... | |
 | 1827 - 808 trang
...writing. I recollect once he told me, when I was admiring a distant prospect in one of our morning walke, that the sight of so many smoking cottages gave a...the happiness and the worth which they contained." None but himself assuredly could have written such a Cotter's Saturday Night — and such songs —so... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1828 - 324 trang
...conversation than he had ever done in company." " He was," adds the professor, " passionately fond of the beauties of nature, and I recollect once he...the happiness and the worth which they contained." Burns was far too busy with society and observation to find time for poetical composition, during this... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1831 - 484 trang
...He was passionately row of the beauties of nature ; and I roWtoct once he told me when I wa* adoring a distant prospect in one of our morning walks, that...the happiness and the worth which they contained. " In his political principles he was then a Jacobite ; which was perhaps owing partly to this, that... | |
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He was passionately fond of the beauties of nature ; and I recollect once he told me, when I was admiring a distant prospect in one of our morning walks, that the sight of so many smoking cottages gave a pleasure to his mind, which none could understand... 
