 | Robert Burns - English Literature - 1898 - 394 pages
...Nature: see Ep. WS, 73, p. 34, and Gen. Introd., p. liii ff. 90 234. soothe thy flame : ' My passions raged like so many devils till they got vent in rhyme; and then conning over my verses, like a spell, soothed all into quiet ' (Letter to Dr. Moore). Cf. Ep. WS, 30,... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1898 - 394 pages
...Nature: see Ep. WS, 73, p. 34, and Gen. Introd., p. liii ff. 90 234. soothe thy flame: ' My passions raged like so many devils till they got vent in rhyme; and then conning over my verses, like a spell, soothed all into quiet' (Letter to Dr. Moore). Cf. Ep. WS, 30,... | |
 | William Harvey - Stirlingshire (Scotland) - 1899 - 180 pages
...momentary tone of the mind, and dismissed it as it bordered on fatigue. My passions, when once they were lighted up, raged like so many devils till they got vent in rhyme ; and then conning over my verses, like a spell, soothed all into quiet I None of the rhymes of those days are... | |
 | John Dawson Ross - 1899 - 222 pages
...life. He says, " My passions, once lighted, raged up like so many devils until they got vent in rhyme. Then the conning over my verses, like a spell, soothed all into quiet." With all that flow of soul in him ; with his rebounding from the highest conviviality to the lowest... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1900 - 250 pages
...Life of Burns. Page 63, line 11. passions raging like demons, etc. "My passions, when once they were lighted up, raged like so many devils till they got vent in rhyme ; and then conning over my verses, like a spell, soothed all into quiet!" Written with reference to about the... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1900 - 248 pages
...Life of Burns. Page 63, line 11. passions raging like demons, etc. "My passions, when once they were lighted up, raged like so many devils till they got vent in rhyme ; and then conning over my verses, like a spell, soothed all into quiet!" Written with reference to about the... | |
 | Christianity - 1902 - 970 pages
...poems, must make his whole life r heroic poem." Burns once wrote: "My passions, when once lightec' up, raged like so many devils, till they got vent in rhyme; and then coming over my verses, like a spell soothed all into quiet.'' We certainly need not be surprised at... | |
 | George Iles - 1908 - 202 pages
...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... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - English poetry - 1908 - 562 pages
...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...my verses, like a spell, soothed all into quiet." — letter to Dr. Moore, August 2, 1 787. " For my own part, I never had the least thought or inclination... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - English poetry - 1908 - 562 pages
...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...conning over my verses, like a spell, soothed all into quiet."—Letter to Dr. Moore, August 2, 1787. "For my own part, I never had the least thought or inclination... | |
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Poesy was still a darling walk for my mind, but it was only indulged in according to the humour of the hour. I had usually half a dozen or more pieces on hand; I took up one or other, as it suited the momentary tone of the mind, and dismissed the work... 
