This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1897 Excerpt: ...himself in language vehement and strong, full of warm feeling, or bitter denunciation, like a rushing torrent with the lightning's glare o'erhead. Thus his portraitures of Scottish life and manners--while rough and ready, broad and strong--are in their main aspects true. He appears before his countrymen in no false ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1897 Excerpt: ...himself in language vehement and strong, full of warm feeling, or bitter denunciation, like a rushing torrent with the lightning's glare o'erhead. Thus his portraitures of Scottish life and manners--while rough and ready, broad and strong--are in their main aspects true. He appears before his countrymen in no false guise, --a rustic poet in homely garb, using his native dialect as the medium for describing scenes and incidents alike in nature and human life and character, for the delight and solace of his countrymen. One great precious truth runs like a golden thread through his poems--the noble sentiment so dear to man, --individuality and independence--the real spiritual co-equality of all true-hearted men, notwithstanding great disparity of outward rank and condition. This forms the central truth in his teaching, encouraging all to struggle bravely in life's daily battle. The priceless legacy which lie has left is intrinsically and universally human in its portrayal jf Fact and Nature; and so it is that the works of the chief of Scotland's lyric poets have gradually won for their author the highest literary eminence on which his countrymen, from the palace to the cot, can place him; and from that lofty and enduring pedestal it is their delight to view him as "The (Jreatest National Poet." Burns wrote much, if his narrow forbidding environmentsaretobetakenintoaccount; still it is believed that his literary life-work is but a tithe of what it might have been. May it not be that what we possess give but glimpses of his perfervid genius? Many of his poems are the results of occasional outbursts when under tits of depression, sore-stricken poverty, or bitter disappointment--written, toe;, Often on the spur of the moment, when in a high state of nervous...
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