Scotch school, /'. e. none of your modern agriculturists, who keep labourers for their drudgery, but the douce gudeman who held his own plough. There was a strong expression of sense and shrewdness in all his lineaments ; the eye alone, I think, indicated... The Works of Robert Burns: Containing His Life - Page xxviiiby Robert Burns - 1849 - 425 pagesFull view - About this book
| Church of Scotland - Scotland - 1880 - 408 pages
...was, for a very sagacious i Битa, by Principal Shairp. country farmer of the old Scotch school, ie none of your modern agriculturists who keep labourers...temperament. It was large, and of a dark cast, which glowed (I say literally glowed) when he spoke with feeling or interest. I never saw such another eye in a... | |
| Henry William Dulcken - 1880 - 858 pages
...poet, had I not known who he was, for a very sagacious country farmer of the okl Scotch school, — the douce gudeman who held his own plough. There was...indicated the poetical character and temperament. It wa* large and of a dark -! •' T-rrrn *ir*- ;£. »?-- — -— . IE; — j!-if .am WM n. ii- = —... | |
| Biography - 1880 - 832 pages
...drudgery, but the douce glide man who held his own plough. There was a strong expression of s°nse and shrewdness in all his lineaments ; the eye alone,...temperament. It was large, and of a dark cast, which glowed iI say literally gloircd) when he spoke with feeling or interest I never saw kuch another eye in a... | |
| 1880 - 814 pages
...who held his own plough. There was n strong expression of snnse and shrewdness in all his Kneaments ; the eye alone, I think, indicated the poetical character...temperament. It was large, and of a dark cast, which glowed (I say literally glowed) when he spoke with feeling or interest. I never saw Buch another eye in a... | |
| William Henry Davenport Adams - 1880 - 362 pages
...taken him for a very sagacious country farmer of the old Scotch school ; that is, the " douce guidman " who held his own plough. There was a strong expression...and shrewdness in all his lineaments : the eye alone indicated the poetical character and temperament. It was large, and of a cast which glowed when he... | |
| Thomas Budd Shaw - American literature - 1880 - 442 pages
...talents. . . , I think bin countenance was more massive than it looks in any of the portraits There wns a strong expression of sense and shrewdness in all...lineaments ; the eye alone, I think, indicated the poetical temperament. It was large and of a dark cast, and glowed (I say literally glowed) when he spoke with... | |
| Charles John Plumptre - Elocution - 1881 - 522 pages
...quail." Sir Walter Scott, in the accounts he gives to Lockhart of his interview with Burns, says : " There was a strong expression of sense and shrewdness...temperament. It was large and of a dark cast, which glowed (I say literally glowed) when he spoke with feeling or interest. I never saw such another eye in a... | |
| Charles John Plumptre - Elocution - 1881 - 524 pages
...rays quail." Sir Walter Scott, in the accounts he gives to Lockhart of his interview with Burns, says: "There was a strong expression of sense and shrewdness...temperament. It was large and of a dark cast, which glowed (I say literally glawed) when he spoke with feeling or interest. I never saw such another eye in a... | |
| Early English newspapers - 1881 - 952 pages
...Scott on Burns: "I think his countenance was more massive than it looks in ally of the portraits. . . . There was a strong expression of sense and shrewdness...and temperament. It was large and of a dark cast, and glowed (I say literally glowed) when he spoke with feeling or interest. I never saw such another... | |
| John Gibson Lockhart - 1882 - 422 pages
...poet, had I not known what he was, for a very sagacious country farmer of the old Scotch school — te none of your modern agriculturists, who keep labourers...and temperament. It was large, and of a dark cast, and glowed (I say literally glowed) when he spoke with feeling or interest. I never saw such another... | |
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