...ever done in company." Once when they were admiring the distant prospect, Burns told his companion " that the sight of so many smoking cottages gave a...witnessed, like himself, the happiness and the worth they contained."* Of a surety, as Mr. Strachey says in his Introduction to the Mermaid edition of Beaumont...

...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...

...me still more hy 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. All the faculties of Burns's mind were, as far as I could judge, equally vigorous ; and his predilection...

...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. All the faculties of Burns's mind were, as far as I could judge, equally vigorous ; and his predilection...

...ever done in company. When I was admiring a distant prospect in one of our morning walks, he told me that the sight of so many smoking cottages gave a...the happiness and the worth which they contained." The same thoughts were in his mind when he wrote to Mrs. Dunlop, in March : "I have dallied long enough...

...near Edinburgh, that the sight of so many smoking cottages gave a pleasure to his mind which no one could understand who had not witnessed, like himself,...the happiness and the worth which they contained." This one sentence furnishes a key to many of his poems, and especially to that beautiful delineation,...

...once he told me, when I was admiring a distant prospect in one of our morning walks, that the eight of so many smoking cottages gave a pleasure to his...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...

...him, — the life in one of those humble cottages, his pleasure in which, as he told Dugald Stewart, "none could understand, who had not witnessed like...the happiness and the worth which they contained." Burns had always in him a strong vein of religious fervour, more the result of feeling than of reason,...

...is welded by mutual love and esteem. " I recollect once," said Dugald Stewart, speaking of Burns, " he told me, when I was admiring a distant prospect...the happiness and the worth which they contained." He dwells 56 repeatedly on the primary sacredness of the home and the family, the responsibility of...

...is welded by mutual love and esteem. " I recollect once," said Dugald Stewart, speaking of Burns, " he told me, when I was admiring a distant prospect...the happiness and the worth which they contained." He dwells repeatedly on the primary sacredness of the home and the family, the responsibility of fatherhood...