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" I have some favourite flowers in spring, among which are the mountain-daisy, the hare-bell, the fox-glove, the wild-brier rose, the budding birch, and the hoary hawthorn, that I view and hang over with particular delight. "
The prose works of Robert Burns - Page 159
by Robert Burns - 1816 - 705 pages
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Robert Burns: As a Poet, and as a Man

Samuel Tyler - 1848 - 228 pages
...flowers in spring, among which are the mountain-daisy, the hare-bell, the foxglove, the wild brier-rose, the budding birch, and the hoary hawthorn, that I...delight. I never hear the loud, solitary whistle of the curfew in a summer noon, or the wild mixing cadence of a troop of gray plovers in an autumnal morning,...
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Robert Burns: As a Poet, and as a Man

Samuel Tyler - 1848 - 238 pages
...flowers in spring, among which are the mountain-daisy, the hare-bell, the foxglove, the wild brier-rose, the budding birch, and the hoary hawthorn, that I view and hang over with AS A MAN. 175 I particular delight. I never hear the loud, solitary whistle of the curfew in a summer...
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Robert Burns: As a Poet, and as a Man

Samuel Tyler - 1848 - 222 pages
...I view and hang over with particular delight. I never hear the loud, solitary whistle of the curfew in a summer noon, or the wild mixing cadence of a troop of gray plovers in an autumnal morning, without feeling an elevation of soul like the enthusiasm of devotion...
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Notes and Queries, Volume 97

1898 - 664 pages
...the particular effect on himself of certain times, seasons, and incidents. He continues thus : — " I never hear the loud, solitary whistle of the curlew...Summer noon, or the wild mixing cadence of a troop of grey-plover in an Autumnal morning, without feeling an elevation of soul like the enthusiasm of Devotion...
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Contributions to Herography

Erastus Darrow - 1850 - 104 pages
...which on minds of a different cast makes no extraordinary impression. I have some flowers in spring, that I view and hang over with particular delight....solitary whistle of the curlew, in a summer noon, or the mixing cadence of a troop of grey plover in an autumnal morning, without feeling an elevation of soul...
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Contributions to Herography

1850 - 138 pages
...which on minds of a different cast makes no extraordinary impression. I have some flowers in spring, that I view and hang over with particular delight....solitary whistle of the curlew, in a summer noon, or the mixing cadence of a troop of grey plover in an autumnal morning, without feeling an elevation of soulliks...
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The Natural History of Ireland, Volume 2

William Thompson - 1850 - 378 pages
...Highland scenery and its adjuncts as Scott's Lady of the Lake. Burns, indeed, tells us that he could " never hear the loud solitary whistle of the curlew...noon, or the wild mixing cadence of a troop of grey [golden] plover, in an autumnal morning, without feeling an elevation of soul, like the enthusiasm...
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Notes and Queries

1892 - 688 pages
...Ellisland, on New Year's Day morning, 1789, Barns h »s the following : — "I never bear the lou-1, solitary whistle of the curlew, in a summer noon, or the wild mixing cadence of a troop of grey plorer, in an autumnal morning, without feeling an elevation of soul like the enthusiasm of devotion...
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The kaleidoscope of anecdotes and aphorisms, collected by C. Sinclair

Catherine Sinclair - 1851 - 420 pages
...in spring, among which are the mountain- daisy, the hare-bell, the fox-glove, the wild briar rose, the budding birch, and the hoary hawthorn, that I...noon, or the wild mixing cadence of a troop of grey plovers in an autumnal morning, without feeling an elevation of soul like the enthusiasm of devotion...
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The life and works of Robert Burns, ed. by R. Chambers, Volume 2

Robert Burns - 1851 - 332 pages
...flowers in spring, among which are the mountain-daisy, the harebell, the foxglove, the wild-brier rose, the budding birch, and the hoary hawthorn, that I...summer noon, or the wild mixing cadence of a troop of gray plovers, in an autumnal morning, without feeling an elevation of soul like the enthusiasm of devotion...
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