 | Peter Mackenzie - 1865 - 664 pages
...Hume, to the sweet and simple, but not less pathetic and sublime morality of her Burns—how, from th* bosom of a country like that, genius, and character,...pine under the horrid communion of vulgar vice and baseboru profligacy, for twice the period that ordinary calculation gives to the continuance of human... | |
 | John Philpot Curran - 1872 - 632 pages
...wreath of every muse, from the deep and scrutinizing researches of her Hume, to the sweet and simple, but not less sublime and pathetic, morality of her...calculation gives to the continuance of human life?* * Alluding to Scotland, where sentence of transportation for fourteen years, had been passed upon Mr.... | |
 | 1872 - 246 pages
...wreath of every muse, from the deep and scrutinizing researches of her Hume, to the sweet and simple, but not less sublime and pathetic, morality of her...country like that, genius and character and talents [Muir, Margarot, &c.,] should be banished to a distant and barbarous soil, condemned to pine under... | |
 | Charles Anderton Read - 1879 - 390 pages
...wreath of every muse, from the deep and scrutinizing researches of her Hume to the sweet and simple, but not less sublime and pathetic, morality of her...Burns — how, from the bosom of a country like that, genins, and character, and talents, should be banished to a distant barbarous soil, condemned to pine... | |
 | 1882 - 866 pages
...wealth of every Muse, from the deep and scrutinizing researches of her Hume, to the sweet and simpler, but not less sublime and pathetic morality of her...calculation gives to the continuance of human life? But I will not press any idea that is painful to me and I am sure must be painful to you. I will only... | |
 | Lord Henry Cockburn Cockburn - 1888 - 280 pages
...wreath of every muse, from the deep and scrutinising researches of her Hume, to the sweet and simple, but not less sublime and pathetic, morality of her...calculation gives to the continuance of human life." This is eloquent, but no more. The circumstances selected as descriptive of Scotland had no reference... | |
 | Lord Henry Cockburn Cockburn - 1888 - 278 pages
...wreath of every muse, from the deep and scrutinising researches of her Hume, to the sweet and simple, but not less sublime and pathetic, morality of her...calculation gives to the continuance of human life." This is eloquent, but no more. The circumstances selected as descriptive of Scotland had no reference... | |
 | Lord Henry Cockburn Cockburn - 1888 - 286 pages
...wreath of every muse, from the deep and scrutinising researches of her Hume, to the sweet and simple, but not less sublime and pathetic, morality of her Burns ; how, from the bosom of a countiy like that, genius and character, and talents, should be banished to a distant, barbarous soil,... | |
 | Peter Mackenzie - 1890 - 658 pages
...and scrutinizing researches of her Hume, to the sweet and simple, but not less pathetic and sublime morality of her Burns — how, from the bosom of a...calculation gives to the continuance of human life. Surely every Scotchman, of whatsoever creed he may be, should feel justly proud of such a compliment,... | |
 | Henry Hardwicke - 1896 - 476 pages
...wreath of every muse; from the deep and scrutinising researches of her Hume, to the sweet and simple, but not less sublime and pathetic morality of her...calculation gives to the continuance of human life? But I will not further press any idea that is painful to me, and I am sure must be painful to you.... | |
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... researches of her Hume, to the sweet and simple, but not less sublime and pathetic morality of her Burns —how, from the bosom of a country like that, genius and character and talents should be banished to a distant, barbarous soil, condemned to... 
