...inherit the virtues of their ancestors ? The poetic genius of my country found me, as the prophetic hard, Elijah, did Elisha — at the plough ; and threw her inspiring mantle over me. She bade me sing the loves, the joys, tho rural scenes, and rural pleasures, of my native soil, in...

...Edinburgh edition of his poems to the noblemen and gentlemen of the Caledonian hunt, he says — " The poetic genius of my country found me, as the prophetic...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...

...names of his native land, those who bear the honours, and inherit the virtues, of their ancestors ? The poetic genius of my country found me, as the prophetic...the plough, and threw her inspiring mantle over me. She bade me sing the lores, the joys, the rural scenes and rural pleasures of my native soil, in my...

...bard, while assisting his father at the plough, that there the poetic genius of his country found him as the prophetic bard Elijah did Elisha — at the plough, and threw her inspiring mantle over him. She bade him sing the loves, the joys, the rural scenes, and rural pleasures of his natal soil,...

...— he was a peasant's son, and himself a ploughman. "The poetic genius of my country," he says, " found me as the prophetic bard Elijah did Elisha — at the plough, and threw hur inspiring mantle over me." His genius received no aid from a refined or liberal education ; it...

...of the same dimensions from which so many beauties could be culled as from the letters of Burns. " The poetic genius of my country found me as the prophetic...the plough, and threw her inspiring mantle over me." Such is the language of the poet. We do not wonder at the fact, we only name it- Heaven and earth are...

...names of his native land, those who bear the honours, and inherit the virtues, of their ancestors? The poetic genius of my country found me, as the prophetic...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...

...names of his native land, those who bear the honours, and inherit the virtues, of their ancestors ? The poetic genius of my country found me, as the prophetic...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...

...of throwing her mantle, embroidered with Scotch thistles, over him, according to his own words — "The poetic genius of my country found me, as the prophetic bard Elijan did Elisha, at the plough, and threw her inspiring mantle over me." Burns stands with his left...

...names of his native land, those who bear the honours, and inherit the virtues, of their ancestors ? The poetic genius of my country found me, as the prophetic...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...