 ... 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
 | George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 1830 - 516 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, DisclosM and kindled by refining frost, Pour every lustre... | |
 | Robert Burns - Scotland - 1831 - 484 pages
...peculiar pleasure I take in the season of winter, more than the rest of the year. This, I believe, maybe partly owing to my misfortunes giving my mind a melancholy...Mighty tempest, and the hoary waste Abrupt and deep, stretch' d o'er tbe buried earth," — which raises the mind to a serious sublimity, favourable to... | |
 | William Cowper - 1832 - 602 pages
...the tepid gleams Deep musing, then he best exerts his song. E'en 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, Pour every... | |
 | Joseph Emerson - Elocution - 1832 - 122 pages
...tepid gleams Deep-musing, then he best exerts his song. Even winter wild to him is full of bliss. 85 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, Disclos'd and kindled by refining frost, Four ev'ry lusture... | |
 | Robert Burns, Allan Cunningham - Ballads, Scots - 1834 - 368 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...noble. There is scarcely any earthly object gives me more — I do not know if I should call it pleasure — but something which exalts me, something... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1834 - 360 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...Abrupt and deep, stretch'd o'er the buried earth,"— VOL. VI. 1) which raises the mind to a serious sublimity, favourable to every thing great and noble.... | |
 | Sharon Turner - Creation - 1834 - 610 pages
...juvenile days : ' I take a peculiar pleasure in the season of WINTER, more than the rest of the year. There is something even in The mighty tempest and the hoary waste, Abrupt and deep, stretched o'er the buried earth ; which raises the mind to a serious sublimity, favorable to every... | |
 | Sharon Turner - Religion and science - 1834 - 608 pages
...juvenile days : ' I take a peculiar pleasure in the season of WINTER, more than the rest of the year. There is, something even in The mighty tempest and the hoary waste, Abrupt and deep, stretched o'er the buried earth ; which raises the mind to a serious sublimity, favorable to every... | |
 | Sharon Turner - Bible - 1835 - 460 pages
...v. 5. p. 354. "I take a peculiar pleasure in the.season of WINTER, more loan the rest of the year. There is something even in The mighty tempest and the hoary waste, Abrupt and deep, stretched o'er the buried earth; which raises the mind to a serious sublimity, favourable to every... | |
 | Silas Jones - Phrenology - 1836 - 348 pages
...susceptible temperament. Burns was especially fond of the season of winter. ' This, I believe,' says he, ' may be partly owing to my misfortunes giving my mind...the " Mighty tempest and the hoary waste, Abrupt and dead, stretched o'er the buried earth," — which raises the mind to a serious sublimity, favorable... | |
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