| 1877 - 844 페이지
...effusions of Beranger in France, and Davis, the national singer of Ireland. " My passions," said Burns, "when once lighted up, raged like so many devils,...my verses, like a spell, soothed all into quiet." And in the very spirit of the enthusiasm of love he wrote regarding the heroines of one of his songs... | |
| Allan Cunningham, Charles Mackay - 1879 - 628 페이지
...pieces on hand ; I took up one or other, as it suited the momentary tone of the mind, and dismissed the work as it bordered on fatigue. My passions, when...rhymes of those days are in print, except, "Winter, a dirge," the eldest of my printed pieces ; "The Death of poor Maillie," " John Barleycorn," and songs... | |
| William Henry Davenport Adams - 1880 - 362 페이지
...pieces on hand ; I took up one or the other, as it suited the momentary tone of the mind, and dismissed the work as it bordered on fatigue. My passions, when...rhymes of those days are in print, except ' Winter, a Dirge,' the oldest of my printed pieces ; ' The Death of Poor Mailie,' ' John Barleycorn,' and Songs... | |
| Alfred Hix Welsh - 1880 - 182 페이지
...glowing with the warmth and truth of nature. He was content to exhibit his feeling as he felt it : ' My passions, when once lighted up raged like so many...my verses, like a spell, soothed all into quiet.' This man, who despises cant, could not wear the classical dress. His figure is too awkward and powerful... | |
| Robert Burns - 1881 - 700 페이지
...momentary tone of the mind, and dismissed the work as it bordered on fatigue. My passions, when onee lighted up, raged like so many devils, till they got vent in rhyme ; and then the eonning over my verses, like a spell, soothed all into quite ! None of the rhymes of those days are... | |
| John Nichol - 1882 - 102 페이지
...With the sweetness of the fields came the benign influences of Coila, to which he thus refers : — " My passions, when once lighted up, raged like so many...my verses, like a spell, soothed all into quiet." Here the lyrist of the last century anticipates the great mosaicworker of the present — " But for... | |
| Alfred Hix Welsh - 1882 - 1108 페이지
...to exhibit his feeling as he felt it: 'My passions, when once lighted up, raged like no many devil*, till they got vent in rhyme : and then the conning...my verses, like a spell, soothed all into quiet.' This man, who despises cant, could not wear the classical dress. His figure is too awkward and powerful... | |
| John Gibson Lockhart - 1882 - 380 페이지
...productions, of a period which might embrace a year or so after his return from Irvine, thus observed : — "None of the rhymes of those days are in print, except ' Winter, a dirge ' (the eldest of my printed pieces), and Songs, first, second, and third." These are (1) "... | |
| Alfred Hix Welsh - 1883 - 586 페이지
...of nature. He was content to exhibit his feeling as he felt it: 'My passions, when once lighted np, raged like so many devils, till they got vent in rhyme;...my verses, like a spell, soothed all into quiet.' This man, who despises cant, could not wear the classical dress. His figure is too awkward and powerful... | |
| Rose Elizabeth Cleveland - 1885 - 212 페이지
...that soothing balm which the utterance is to his reader. Burns said, " My passions when once lighted raged like so many devils till they got vent in rhyme...my verses, like a spell, soothed all into quiet." But where will one find a lullaby in George Eliot's verses ? Poets do, indeed, learn in suffering what... | |
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