The Burns Almanac: A Record of Dates, Events, Etc., Connected with the Poet |
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Page 94 - For though in dreadful whirls we hung High on the broken wave, I knew thou wert not slow to hear, Nor impotent to save.
Page 125 - Had we never loved sae kindly, Had we never loved sae blindly, Never met, or never parted, We had ne'er been broken-hearted.
Page 8 - For my own affairs, I am in a fair way of becoming as eminent as Thomas a Kempis or John Bunyan ; and you may expect henceforth to see my birth-day inserted among the wonderful events, in the Poor Robin's and Aberdeen Almanacks, along with the Black Monday, and the battle of Bothwell Bridge.
Page 94 - The earliest composition that I recollect taking pleasure in was The Vision of Mirza, and a hymn of Addison's, beginning, ' How are thy servants blest, O Lord!' I particularly remember one half-stanza which was music to my boyish ear: ' For though on dreadful whirls we hung High on the broken wave ' I met with these pieces in Mason's English Collection, one of my school-bookS.
Page 99 - Partly thro' whim, and partly that I wished to set about doing something in life, I joined with a flax-dresser in a neighbouring town, to learn his trade and carry on the business of manufacturing and retailing flax. — This turned out a sadly unlucky affair. — My Partner was a scoundrel of the first water who made money by the mystery of thieving...
Page 113 - ... glory, but his first duty, and the true medicine for all his woes, lay here. The second was still less probable ; for his mind was ever among the clearest and firmest. So the milder third gate was opened for him: and he passed, not softly, yet speedily, into that still country, where the hail-storms and fireshowers do not reach, and the heaviest-laden wayfarer at length lays down his load!
Page 94 - Book, the New Testament, the Bible, Mason's Collection of Prose and Verse, and Fisher's English Grammar. They committed to memory the hymns and other poems of that collection with uncommon facility. This facility was partly owing to the method pursued by their father and me in instructing them, which was, to make them thoroughly acquainted with the meaning of every word in...
Page 111 - I'll be more respected a hundred years after I am dead than I am at present ! " To-day the hundred years are completed, and we can judge of the prediction.
Page 98 - I have frequently been struck by his facility in addressing the fair sex ; and many times, when I have been bashfully anxious how to express myself, he would have entered into conversation with them with the greatest ease and freedom ; and it was generally a deathblow to our conversation, however agreeable, to meet a female acquaintance.
Page 146 - His differences with them in some important points of human speculation and religious hope, were forgotten and forgiven; they thought only of his genius — of the delight his compositions had diffused ; and they talked of him with the same awe as of some departing spirit, whose voice was to gladden them no more.