| 1841 - 520 pages
...important events recorded in history, particularly a great many of the actions of the glorious Wallace— yet we have never had one Scotch poet of any eminence...Irvine, the romantic woodlands and sequestered scenes on Ayr, and the heathy mountainous source and winding sweep of the Doon, emulate the Tay, Forth, Ettrick,... | |
| Robert Burns - Poetry - 2004 - 456 pages
...scene of many great events recorded in history, particularly the actions of the glorious Wallace—yet we have never had one Scotch poet of any eminence...Irvine, the romantic woodlands and sequestered scenes of Ayr. and the mountainous source and winding sweep of the Doon, emulate Tay, Forth, Ettrick, and... | |
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