...allusion, not profanely intended, that the " poetic genius of his country found him, as the prophet-bard Elijah did Elisha, at the plough, and threw her inspiring mantle over him. She bade him sing the loves, the joys, the rural scenes and rural pleasures of his native soil,...

...names of his native land ; those who bear the honours and inherit the virtues of their ancestors ? The Poetic Genius of my Country found me, as the prophetic...the PLOUGH, and threw her inspiring mantle over me. She bade me sing the loves, the joys, the rural scenes and rural pleasures of my native soil, in my...

...new edition of his works, April, 1787, he thus addressed the noblemen and gentlemen of Scotland : — "The poetic genius of my country found me as the prophetic...plough — and threw her inspiring mantle over me. She bade me sing the loves, the joys, the rural scenes and rural pleasures of my natal soil in my native...

...illustrious names of his native Land; those who bear the honours and inherit the virtues of their Ancestors? The Poetic Genius of my Country found me, as the prophetic...the Plough; and threw her inspiring Mantle over me. She bade me sing the loves, the joys, the rural scenes and rural pleasures of my native soil, in my...

...exercises of the field. ' He could plough mair,' says К , 'in a dedication to the Caledonian Hunt, ' found me, as the prophetic bard Elijah did Elisha...the plough, and threw her inspiring mantle over me.' Burns's features were coarse, though pleasing, and their expression was open and noble. But the principal...

...plough mair,' says К , ' in a dedication to the Caledonian Hunt, ' found me, as the prophetic hard Elijah did Elisha — at the plough, and threw her inspiring mantle over me.' Burns's features were coarse, though pleasing, and their expression was open and nohle. But the principal...

...names of his Native Land ; those who bear the honours and inherit the virtues of their Ancestors ? The Poetic Genius of my Country found me, as the prophetic...the plough ; and threw her inspiring mantle over me. She bade me sing the loves, the joys, the rural scenes and rural pleasures of my native soil, in my...

...image from the impulse of his own feeling. Robert Burns said, that the muse of his country found him as Elijah did Elisha, at the plough, and threw her inspiring mantle over him ; and the same may be said of Chantrey : it was in a secluded place, a nameless spot, into which...

...allusion, not profanely intended, that the " poetic genius of his country found him, as the prophet-bard Elijah did Elisha, at the plough, and threw her inspiring mantle over him. She bade him sing the loves, the joys, the rural scenes, and rural pleasures of his native soil,...

...skill or grace, that well-known passage in the dedication to the gentlemen of the Caledonian Hunt : — nti e ploush — and threw her inspiring mantle over me." The Poet's dust has been a second time disturbed....