The Works of Professor Wilson of the University of Edinburgh: Essays critical and imaginativeW. Blackwood, 1857 |
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... walking on this earth , through this world , even along the banks and braes of the streams of Coila . It seems as if his muse were loth to admit almost any thought , feeling , image , drawn from any other region than his native district ...
... walking on this earth , through this world , even along the banks and braes of the streams of Coila . It seems as if his muse were loth to admit almost any thought , feeling , image , drawn from any other region than his native district ...
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... walk an equal in the broad eye of day as it shines over our Scottish hills ? This is true popularity . Thus interpreted , the word sounds well , and recovers its ancient meaning . The land " made blithe with plough and harrow , ” — the ...
... walk an equal in the broad eye of day as it shines over our Scottish hills ? This is true popularity . Thus interpreted , the word sounds well , and recovers its ancient meaning . The land " made blithe with plough and harrow , ” — the ...
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... walking among the summer mists on the mountain , or the blinding winter snows . In the life of the poor there is an unchanging and a preserving spirit . The great ele- mentary feelings of human nature there disdain fluctuating fashions ...
... walking among the summer mists on the mountain , or the blinding winter snows . In the life of the poor there is an unchanging and a preserving spirit . The great ele- mentary feelings of human nature there disdain fluctuating fashions ...
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... walk up and down her hills silent or singing to kirk or market . Let us picture to ourselves the Household in which Burns grew up to manhood , shifting its place without much changing its condition , from first to last always fighting ...
... walk up and down her hills silent or singing to kirk or market . Let us picture to ourselves the Household in which Burns grew up to manhood , shifting its place without much changing its condition , from first to last always fighting ...
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... walking to labour , song by song , verse by verse , carefully noticing the true tender or sublime from affectation or fustian ; and I am convinced I owe to this practice most of my critic - craft , such as it is . " So much for book ...
... walking to labour , song by song , verse by verse , carefully noticing the true tender or sublime from affectation or fustian ; and I am convinced I owe to this practice most of my critic - craft , such as it is . " So much for book ...
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