 | 1845 - 440 trang
...his private conversation, than he had ever done in company. He was passionately fond of the heauties of nature ; and I recollect once he told me, when...the happiness and the worth which they contained. " In his political principles he was then a Jacohite ; which was perhaps owing partly to this, that... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1849 - 906 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 his... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw - 1849 - 608 trang
...of Burns, when he wept at the sight of a lovely and peasant-peopled scene : " The sight," he said, " of so many smoking cottages gave a pleasure to his...the happiness and the worth which they contained." One of his most admirable poems, ' The Cotter's Saturday Night,' is nothing but an amplification of... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1851 - 332 trang
...had ever done in company. He was passionately fond of the beauties of -nature ; and I recollect onee he told me, when I was admiring a distant prospect...the happiness and the worth which they contained. ' In his political prineiples he was then a Jacobite ; which was perhaps owing partly to this, that... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1851 - 362 trang
...exclamation of Burns, when he wept at the sight of a lovely and peasant-peopled scene: ' The sight,' he said, 'of so many smoking cottages gave a pleasure to his...like himself, the happiness and the worth which they conOnc of his most, admirable poems, ' The Cotter's Saturday THE COTTER'S SATURDAY NIGHT. 317 Night,'... | |
 | Christopher Wordsworth - 1851 - 550 trang
...tract of country, he said that the sight of so many smoking cottages gave a pleasure to his mind that none could understand who had not witnessed, like himself, the happiness and worth which they contained. How were those happy and worthy people educated ? By the influence of hereditary... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1852 - 336 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, that... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1854 - 342 trang
...me 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, that... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1858 - 548 trang
...me 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, that... | |
 | Robert Burns, Allan Cunningham - 1855 - 616 trang
...me 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, 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... 
