 | Books - 1709 - 578 pages
...favourable to every thing great and noble. There is scarcely any earthly object gives me more — 1 do not know if I should call it pleasure — but something...which enraptures me— than to walk in the sheltered tide of a wood, or high plantation, in a claudy-wititei-daj, arid h-..ir the stormy wind howling among... | |
 | 1809 - 530 pages
...a part, indeed, of the same picture. ' There is scarcely any eartljly object gives me more — I do not know if I should call it pleasure — but something...sheltered side of a wood, or high plantation, in a cjoudy winter-day, and hear the stormy wind howling among die trees, and raving over the plain. It... | |
 | William Patterson - Forests and forestry - 1804 - 350 pages
...buried earth." That legitimate child of nature, the ingenious Burns, was always enraptured when walking in the sheltered side of a wood or high plantation in a cloudy winter day, and hearing the stormy wind howling among the trees, and raving over the plain ; it was... | |
 | Enos Bronson - Literature, Modern - 1809 - 458 pages
...indeed, of the same picture" There is scarcely any earthly object gives me more — I do not know if 1 should call it pleasure — but something which exalts...sheltered side of a wood, or high plantation, in a cloudy winter day, and hear the stormy wind howling among the trees, and raving over the plain. It is my best... | |
 | 1809 - 914 pages
...know it' 1 should rail it pleasure— but something which exalts me— something which enrapture» me — than to walk in the sheltered side of a wood, or high plantation, in a cloudy winter day, and hear the stormy wind howling among the trees, and raving over the plain. It is my best... | |
 | 1809 - 448 pages
...1 do not know il I should call it pleasure — lior som-thi:^- which txalts me — something whiclr enraptures me — than to walk in the sheltered side of a wood, or high plantation, in a cloudy winter day, and hear the stormy wind. howling among the trees, and raving over the plain. It is my... | |
 | Robert Burns - Scotland - 1815 - 344 pages
...more— I do not know if I should eall it pleasure— hut something whieh exalts me, something whieh enraptures me— than to walk in the sheltered side of a wood, or high plantation, in a eloudy winter-day, and hear the stormy wind howling among the trees, and raving over the plain. It... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1816 - 468 pages
...me man. J call it picasote — but 10 m 't««e * ii.i* me, something which enraptures me — thin to walk in the sheltered side of a. wood, or high...plantation, in a cloudy winterday, and hear the stormy wind bowling among the trees, and raving over the plain. It is my best season for devotion : my mind is... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1819 - 658 pages
...favourable to every thing great and noble. — There is scarcely any earthly object gives me more — 1 do not know if I should call it pleasure — but something...— than to walk in the sheltered side of a wood, vi«fh plantation, in a cloudy winter-day, and hear the stormy wind howling among the trees, aud raving... | |
 | British prose literature - 1819 - 364 pages
...favourable to every thing great and noble. There is scarcely any earthly object gives me more — I do not know if I should call it pleasure — but something which exalts me, something which euraptures me — than to walk in the sheltered side of a wood, or high plantation, in a cloudy winter-day,... | |
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There is scarcely any earthly object gives me more — I do not know if I should call it pleasure — but something which exalts me, something which enraptures me — than to walk in the sheltered side of a wood, or high plantation, in a cloudy winter... 
