Are we a piece of machinery, which, like the jEolian harp, passive, takes the impression of the passing accident ; or do these workings argue something within us above the trodden clod ? I own myself partial to such proofs of those awful and important... Letters - Page 110by Robert Burns - 1819Full view - About this book
| John Gibson Lockhart - 1831 - 338 pages
...be owing ? Are we a piece of machinery, which, like the ^olian harp, passive, takes the"impression of the passing accident ? Or do these workings argue...important realities — a God that made all things — mini's immaterial and immortal nature — and a world of weal or wo beyond death and the grave."... | |
| 1832 - 792 pages
...me, my dear friend, to what can this be owing ? Are we a piece of machinery which, like the Eolian harp, passive, takes the impression of the passing...argue something within us, above the trodden clod."* The mind of Burns was highly poetical, and in such a mind, when the passions are at rest, the pure... | |
| 1833 - 328 pages
...me, my dear friend, to what this can be owing ? Are we a piece of machinery, which, like the JEoh'an harp, passive, takes the impression of the passing...immaterial and immortal nature —and a world of weal or wo beyond death and the grave." Few, it is to be hoped, can read such things as these without delight... | |
| Robert Burns, Allan Cunningham - 1834 - 384 pages
...me, my dear friend, to what can this be owing ? Are we a piece of machinery, which, like the Eolian harp, passive, takes the impression of the passing...nature — and a world of weal or woe beyond death and the grave. RB [That this mood of feeling and reflection was not uncommon in the household of "... | |
| sir Samuel Egerton Brydges (bart.) - 1834 - 494 pages
...me, my dear friend, to what can this be owing. Are we a piece of machinery, which, like the ^Eolian harp, passive, takes the impression of the passing...immortal nature, and a world of weal or woe beyond death and the grave." I must be forgiven for citing two or three lines only from one more beautiful passage... | |
| Robert Burns - 1834 - 420 pages
...an autumnal morning, without feeling an elevation of soul like the enthusiasm of devotion or poetry. Do these workings argue something within us above...immortal nature, and a world of weal or woe beyond death and the grave." Thus eloquently could Burns discourse upon his own emotions ; he was willing to accept,... | |
| Sharon Turner - 1834 - 610 pages
...autumnal morning, without feeling the elevation of soul, like the enthusiasm of devotion or poetry. ' Do these workings argue something within us above...immaterial and immortal nature, and a world of weal and woe beyond death and the grave.' • Audubon, in his Introduction to his fine work on Birds, says,... | |
| Sharon Turner - 1834 - 608 pages
...autumnal morning, without feeling the elevation of soul, like the enthusiasm of devotion or poetry. ' Do these workings argue something within us above...immaterial and immortal nature, and a world of weal and woe beyond death and the grave.' ' Audubon, in his Introduction to his fine work on Birds, says,... | |
| Sharon Turner - 1835 - 460 pages
...tumnal morning, without feeling the elevation of soul, like the enthasiasm of devotion nr poetry. " Do these workings argue something within us above...own myself partial to such proofs of those awful and impof" tant realities; a God that made all things, man's immaterial and immortal nature, and a world... | |
| Sharon Turner - 1835 - 470 pages
...argue something within us abo%e the trodden clodï I own myself partial to such proofs of those awfal and important realities ; a God that made all things,...immaterial and immortal nature, and a world of weal and wo beyond death and the grave." t Audubon, in his Introduction to his fine work on Birds, says,... | |
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