 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...  The Complete Works Of Robert Burns - xxxi ページ1845全文表示 - この書籍について
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1883 - 586 ページ
...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 ページ
...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... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1885 - 364 ページ
...affair ; and this was not effected before she had become the subject of several fine lyrics, for his "passions, when once lighted up, raged like so many...they got vent in rhyme ; and then the conning over the verses, like a spell, soothed all into quiet." The object of his next attachment appears to have... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1885 - 1108 ページ
...Bur >us. 1. 93. I ' My paarions, when once lighted up, raged like so many devils, IJ1 they got Tent in rhyme ; and then the conning over my verses, like a spell, soothed all into quiet.'1 He hummed them, as he drove his plough, to old Scotch airs, which he passionately loved, and... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1882 - 1134 ページ
...familiar, glowing with the warmth and truth of nature. He was content to exhibit his feeling as he felt it: the roaring billows of Time, thou art not engulphud, but borne aloft into the ven! in rhyme; and then the conning over my verses, like a spell, soothed nil into quiet.' This man,... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1889 - 334 ページ
...setting ayont the white wave, And time is setting with me O.' II. 139-144. When youthful love, &c. ' My passions, when once lighted up, raged like so many...my verses, like a spell, soothed all into quiet.' — {Autobiographical Letter to Dr. Moore.} 11. 153, 154. tf er all my wide domains thy fame extends.... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1887 - 730 ページ
...other, as it suited the momentary tone of the mind, and dismissed the work as it bordered on fatigue. My passions, when once lighted up raged like so many...soothed all into quiet! None of the rhymes of those days an* in print, except, "Winter, a dirge," the eldest of my printed pieces; "The Death of Poor Maillie,"... | |
 | Richard Maria Werner - 1890 - 662 ページ
...it bordered on fatigue. My passions, when once lighted up, raged like so many devils, till they get vent in rhyme; and then the conning over my verses, like a spell, soothed all into quiet. 3 I broke open the letter you sent ine; hummed over the rhymes; nd, äs I saw they were extempore.... | |
 | Charles Rogers - 1891 - 412 ページ
...and dismissing the work as it bordered on fatigue. My passions, when once lighted up, raged like very devils, till they got vent in rhyme ; and then the...over my verses, like a spell, soothed all into quiet. The religious pieces referred to are " Winter — a Dirge," " A Prayer in the Prospect of Death," "... | |
 | Sir George Grove, David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris - 1893 - 524 ページ
...other, as it suited the momentary tone of the mind, and dismissed the work as it bordered on fatigue. My passions, when once lighted up, raged like so many...eldest of my printed pieces ; ' The death of Poor Maillie/ ' John Barleycorn ' and Songs first, second and third." Clearly "half-a-dozen or more pieces... | |
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