 ... mortal, I have various sources of pleasure and enjoyment, which are, in a manner, peculiar to myself, or some here and there such other outof-the-way person. Such is the peculiar pleasure I take in the season of WINTER, more than the rest of the year....  The prose works of Robert Burns - Page 20by Robert Burns - 1816 - 705 pagesFull view - About this book
 | University magazine - 1845 - 772 pages
...there is something even in the " ' Mighty tempert, and the hoary waste, Abrupt and deep, ttretch'd o'er the buried earth,' which raises the mind to a...to every thing great and noble. There is scarcely anl earthly object gives me more — I do not know if I should call it pleasure — but something which]... | |
 | 1845 - 440 pages
...year. This, I helieve, may he partly owing to my misfortunes giving my mind a melancholy cast : hut there is something even in the " Mighty tempest, and the hoary waste Ahrul't and deep, sireich'd o'er the huried earih," — which raises the mind to a serious suhlimity,... | |
 | Rose Ellen Temple - 1846 - 984 pages
...make Alphonzo love the land of his adoption. CHAPTER III. Even winter wild to him is full of bliss, The mighty tempest, and the hoary waste, Abrupt and deep, stretch'd o'er the buried earth, Awake to solemn thought. At night the skies, Disclosed, and kindled by refining frost, Ponr every lustre... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 616 pages
...peculiar pleasure I take in the season of winter, more than the rest of the year. This, I believe, may be partly owing to my misfortunes giving my mind...the buried earth, which raises the mind to a serious solemnity, favourable to every thing great aud noble. There is scarcely any earthly object gives me... | |
 | James Thomson - 1847 - 504 pages
...tepid gleams Deep-musing, then he best exerts his song. 1326 Even Winter wild to him is full of bliss. The mighty tempest, and the hoary waste, Abrupt and deep, stretch'd o'er the buried earth, Awake to solemn thought. At night the skies, 1330 Disclos'd, and kindled, by refining frost, Pour every... | |
 | Goold Brown - English language - 1848 - 324 pages
...Blair. No worldly enjoyments are adequate to the high desires and powers of an immortal spirit. — Id. The mighty tempest, and the hoary waste, Abrupt and deep, stretch'd o'er the buried earth, Awake to solemn thought. — Thomson. The gaudy, babbling, and remorseful day Is crept into the bosom... | |
 | Robert Burns - English poetry - 1849 - 906 pages
...more than the rest of the year. This, I believe, may be partly owing to my misfortunes giving my >Qind a melancholy cast : but there is something even in...deep, stretch'd o'er the buried earth," — which raines the mind to a serious sublimity, favourable to every thing great and noble. There is scarcely... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1850 - 508 pages
...peculiar pleasure I take in the season of winter, more than the rest of the year. This, I believe, may be partly owing to my misfortunes giving my mind a melancholy cast ; but there ia something even in the " Mighty tempest, nnd the hoary waste Abrupt and deep, atretch'd o'er the... | |
 | English poetry - 1852 - 874 pages
...tepid gleams Deep musing, then he best exerts his song. E'en Winter, mild to him, is full of bliss. and furious rage. tHad we return'd up to the roasts of light Ere sabbath-evening : so we h Awake to solemn thought. At night the skies, Disclos'd, and kindled, by refining frost, Pour every... | |
 | James Thomson, George Gilfillan - English poetry - 1853 - 408 pages
...the tepid gleams Deep musing, then he best exerts his song. Even Winter wild to him is full of bliss. The mighty tempest, and the hoary waste, Abrupt and deep, stretch'd o'er the buried earth, Awake to solemn thought. At night the skies, Disclosed and kindled by refining frost, 1330 Pour every... | |
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