 | Robert Burns - 1885 - 310 pages
...their Ancestors? The Poetic Genius of my Country found me as the prophetic bard Elijah did Elisha — at the plough, and threw her inspiring mantle over...: I tuned my wild, artless notes, as she inspired. She whispered me to come to this ancient metropolis of Caledonia, and lay my Songs under your honoured... | |
 | Maude Gillette Phillips - 1885 - 612 pages
...BURNS BECAME A POET. The poetic genius of my country found me, as the prophetic bard Elijah did Elisha, at the plough, and threw her inspiring mantle over...joys, the rural scenes, and rural pleasures of my native soil in my native tongue ; I tuned my wild, artless notes as she inspired. — Dedication of... | |
 | Maude Gillette Phillips - 1885 - 648 pages
...BURNS BECAME A POET. The poetic genius of my country found me, as the prophetic bard Elijah did Elisha, at the plough, and threw her inspiring mantle over...joys, the rural scenes, and rural pleasures of my native soil in my native tongue ; I tuned my wild, artless notes as she inspired. — Dedication of... | |
 | Maude Gillette Phillips - 1885 - 614 pages
...mantle over me. She bade me sing the loves, the joys, the rural scenes, and rural pleasures of my native soil in my native tongue ; I tuned my wild, artless notes as she inspired. — Dedication of the second edition of his works, to the Noblemen and Gentlemen of the Caledonian... | |
 | Charles Rogers - 1891 - 412 pages
...their ancestors 1 The poetic genius of my country found me, as the prophetic bard Elijah did Elisha, at the plough, and threw her inspiring mantle over me. She bade mo sing the loves, the joys, the rural scenes and rural pleasures of my native soil, in my native tongue.... | |
 | Anna Swanwick - 1892 - 412 pages
...The poetic genius of my country found me," he says, " as the prophetic bard, Elijah, did Elisha — at the plough, and threw her inspiring mantle over...the joys, the rural scenes and rural pleasures of my native tongue: I tuned my wild, artless notes as she inspired." Hence, as might be expected, his poetry,... | |
 | Francis Henry Underwood - 1892 - 662 pages
...his own preface: "The poetic genius of my country found me, as the prophetic bard Elijah did Elisha, at the plough, and threw her inspiring mantle over me. She bade me sing tlu loves, the joys, the rural scenes and rural pleasures, of my native soil, in my native tongue.... | |
 | Anna Swanwick - 1892 - 472 pages
...inspiring mantle over me. She bade me sing the loves, the joys, the rural scenes and rural pleasures of my native tongue : I tuned my wild, artless notes as she inspired." Hence, as might be expected, his poetry, which gushed forth with the impetuosity of a Highland torrent,... | |
 | Francis Henry Underwood - 1892 - 668 pages
...preface: "The poetic genius of my country found me, as the prophetic bard Elijah did Elisha. at ths plough, and threw her inspiring mantle over me. She bade me sing thj loves, the joys, the rural scenes and rural pleasures, of my native soil, in my native tongue.... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1893 - 354 pages
...their Ancestors ? The Poetic Genius of my Country found me as the prophetic bard Elijah did Elisha — at the plough, and threw her inspiring mantle over...: I tuned my wild, artless notes, as she inspired. She whispered me to come to this ancient metropolis of Caledonia, and lay my Songs under your honoured... | |
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The poetic genius of my country found me, as the prophetic bard Elijah did Elisha, at 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 native tongue.... 
