 | Eneas Sweetland Dallas - 1866 - 758 pages
...The torch he lit will ever burn. SYDNBT WHTTIKO. • " The poetic genius of my country found me at the prophetic bard Elijah did Elisha, at the plough, and threw her inspiring mantle around me." — Burnt' Dedication. t The Sicilian and the Doric meamiree were the extreme of the tender... | |
 | Robert Burns, James Currie - 1869 - 624 pages
...names' of his native Land — those who bear the honors and Inherit the virtues of their Ancestors f The Poetic Genius of my Country found me, as the prophetic...tongue. I tuned my wild, artless notes as she Inspired. She whispered me to come to this ancient Metropolis of Caledonia, and lay iny songs under your honored... | |
 | Robert Burns, James Currie - 1870 - 642 pages
...inherit the virtues of their Ancestors? The Poetic Genius of my Country found me, as the prophetie hard Elijah did Elisha— at the plough ; and threw her...tongue. I tuned my wild, artless notes as she inspired. She whispered mo to come to this ancient Metropolis of Caledonia, and lay my songs under your honored... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1870 - 652 pages
...Poetic Genius of my Country found me, as the prophetic bard Elijah did Elisha — at the PLOUOII ; and threw her inspiring mantle over me. She bade me...: 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... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1871 - 516 pages
...Land; those who bear the honours and inherit the virtues of their Ancestors ?— The Poetic Genins of my Country found me as the prophetic bard Elijah...and threw her inspiring mantle over me. She bade me eing the loves, the Joys, the rural scenes and rural pleasures of my natal Soil, in my native tongue... | |
 | Francis Henry Underwood - 1871 - 664 pages
...thirty-seven. Perhaps the best idea of the songs of Burns can be had from his own preface: "The fVuc genius of my country found me. as the prophetic bard Elijah did Elisha, at the "^gh, and threw her inspiring mantle over me. Sbe bade me sing the loves, the joys, LH; rural scenes... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1872 - 740 pages
...whose highest ambition is to sing in his country's service. " The poetic genius of my country (he adds) found me, as the prophetic bard Elijah did Elisha,...at the plough, and threw her inspiring mantle over nie. She bade me sing the loves, the joys, the rural scenes and rural pleasures of my native soil,... | |
 | George Shaw - 1873 - 672 pages
...the poet's dedications, in which he says, "The poetic genins of my country found me, as the prophet bard Elijah did Elisha, at the plough, and threw her inspiring mantle over me." The church pew, on which Burns had cut his initials during "wearying sermonizing," has been lately... | |
 | Sydney Whiting - 1873 - 350 pages
...of wind and sleet to the shelter of a securer hovel." — AI.I.AX CUNNIXOHASI. 5 The river Ayr. s " The poetic genius of my country found me as the prophetic bard Elijah did Klisha, at the plough, and threw her inspiring mantle around me " — BURNS' Dedication. 4 The Sicilian... | |
 | William Henry Rideing - 1887 - 258 pages
...Boy." He himself was " the barefoot boy," and what Robert Burns said of himself Whittier might repeat: "The poetic genius of my country found me, as the...bard Elijah did Elisha, at the plough, and threw her inspired mantle over me." He was a farmer's son, born at a time when farm-life in New England was more... | |
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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... 
