 ... harp, in whose strings the vulgar wind, as it passed ' through them, changed itself into articulate me'lody.' And this was he for whom the world found no fitter business than quarrelling with smugglers and vintners, computing...  Critical and Miscellaneous Essays - Page 97by Thomas Carlyle - 1858 - 568 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Timothy Flint - 1830 - 696 pages
...duties upon tallow, and guaging alebarrels ! In such toils was that mighty Spirit sorrowfully waited ; and a hundred years may pass on before another such is given us to waste.' We do not know, where we can find, in the same space, so much just and eloquent criticism, which approves... | |
 | 1829 - 504 pages
...quarrelling with smugglers and vintners, computing excise dues upon tallow, and gauging alebarrels ! In such toils was that mighty spirit sorrowfully wasted...pass on before another such is given us to waste." Not less eloquent, and, in the mind and heart of every enthusiastic Scotchman, not less true, is the... | |
 | 1829 - 490 pages
...excise dues upon tallow, and gauging alebarrels ! In such toils was that mighty spirit sorrowiilly wasted ; and a hundred years may pass on before another such is given us to waste." Not less eloquent, and, in the mind and heart of every enthusiastic Scotchman not less true, is the... | |
 | Richard Robert Madden - 1833 - 310 pages
...than quarreling with smugglers and vinters, computing excise dues upon tallow, and gauging alebarrels! In such toils was that mighty spirit sorrowfully wasted...pass on, before another such is given us to waste." The same writer, after summing up Burns' attainments, says, "He had as much scholarship, we imagine,... | |
 | Arethusa Hall - 1851 - 422 pages
...smugglers and vintners, computing excise dues upon tallow, and gauging ale-barrels ! In such, toil was that mighty spirit sorrowfully wasted: and a hundred...pass on, before another such is given us to waste. ****** By far the most finished, complete, and truly inspired pieces of Burns, are, without dispute,... | |
 | 1852 - 590 pages
...quarrelling with smugglers and vintners, computing excise dues upon tallow, and gauging alebarrels ! In such toils was that mighty Spirit sorrowfully wasted...to waste. All that remains of Burns, the Writings hahas left, seem to us, as we hinted above, no more than a poor mutilated fraction of what was in him;... | |
 | Anne Marsh-Caldwell - 1853 - 498 pages
...quarrelling with smugglers and vintners, computing excise-dues upon tallow, and gauging alebarrels ! In such toils was that mighty Spirit sorrowfully wasted...brief, broken glimpses of a genius that could never shew itself complete ; that wanted all things for completeness : culture, leisure, true effort, nay... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1854 - 98 pages
...quarrelling with smugglers and vintners, computing excise-dues upon tallow, and gauging alebarrels ! In such toils was that mighty Spirit sorrowfully wasted:...brief, broken glimpses of a genius that could never shew itself complete; that wanted all things for completeness: culture, leisure, true effort, nay even... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1859 - 620 pages
...and vintners, computing excise dues upon (allow, and gauging alebarrc>! In such toils was that mighly Spirit sorrowfully wasted: and a hundred years may...of a genius that could never show itself complete; thai wanted all things for completeness: culture,1 leisure, true effort, nay, even length of life.... | |
 | James Hain Friswell - 1869 - 498 pages
...quarrelling with smugglers and vintners, computing excise dues upon tallow, and gauging ale-barrels. In such toils was that mighty spirit sorrowfully wasted ; and a hundred BURNS. 353 years may pass on before another such is given us to waste." A hundred ! ay, five hundred.... | |
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