 | 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 his best season... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1806 - 622 pages
...a serious sublimity, favorable to every thing great and noble. There is scarcely any earthly object gives me more—I do not know if I should call it...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... | |
 | Enos Bronson - Literature, Modern - 1809 - 458 pages
...this we may add the following passage, as a part, indeed, of the same picture. exalts me—something which enraptures me—than to walk in the sheltered...over the plain. It is my best season for devotion. My mind is wrapt up in a kind of enthusiasm to Him, who, in the pompous language of the Hebrew bard,... | |
 | Robert Burns - English literature - 1809 - 328 pages
...sublimity, favorable 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...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... | |
 | English literature - 1809 - 530 pages
...indeed, «f the same picture. ' There is scarcely any earthly object gives me more—I do not. Jcnow if I should call it pleasure—but something which...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... | |
 | Robert Burns - English literature - 1809 - 328 pages
...every thing great and noble. 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 - 576 pages
...favourable to every thing great and noble. There it scarcely any earthly object gives me more —I do not know if I should call it pleasure—but something...which enraptures me—than to walk in the sheltered aide of a wood, or high plantation, in a cloudy-winter-day, and hear the stormy wind howling among... | |
 | 1809 - 914 pages
...the following passage, as a part, indeed, of the same pictureexalts me—something which enrapture» me—than to walk in the sheltered side of a wood,...over the plain. It is my best season for devotion. My mind is wrapt up in a kind of enthusiasm to /Л/л, who, in the pompon? language of the Hebrew hard,'walks... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1813 - 506 pages
...serious sublimity, 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...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... | |
 | Robert Burns - Scotland - 1815 - 344 pages
...serious sublimity, 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...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 ia my best... | |
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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 day, and hear the stormy wind howling among... 
