Peasant show himself among us; "a soul like an ^Eolian harp, in whose strings the vulgar wind, as it passed through them, changed itself into articulate melody." And this was he for whom the world found no fitter business than quarrelling with smugglers... Critical and Miscellaneous Essays - الصفحة 271بواسطة Thomas Carlyle - 1860عرض كامل - لمحة عن هذا الكتاب
| 1828 - عدد الصفحات: 722
...our Peasant show himself among us ; ' a soul like an . Ko' li.iii harp, in whose strings the vulgar wind, as it passed through ' them, changed itself...quarrelling with smugglers and vintners, computing excise dues upon tallow, and gauging alebarrels ! In such toils was that mighty Spirit sorrowfully... | |
| Timothy Flint - 1830 - عدد الصفحات: 696
...did cur Peasant show himself among us ; "a soul like an .ffiolian harp, in whose strings the vulgar wind, as it passed through them, changed itself into articulate melody." And this was he for whom tho world found no fitter business than quarrelling with smugglers and vintners, computing excise duties... | |
| 1829 - عدد الصفحات: 504
...did our peasant show himself among us ; ' a soul like an .'Eolian harp, in whose strings the vulgar wind as it passed through them, changed itself into...quarrelling with smugglers and vintners, computing excise dues upon tallow, and gauging alebarrels ! In such toils was that mighty spirit sorrowfully... | |
| 1829 - عدد الصفحات: 492
...show himself among us ; ' a soul like an /Eoliai harp, in whose strings the vulgar wind as it pas.vi through them, changed itself into articulate melody....business than quarrelling with smugglers and vintners, imputing excise dues upon tallow, and gauging aleaarrels ! In such toils was that mighty spirit sorrowfully... | |
| 1829 - عدد الصفحات: 490
...world found no fitter business than quarrelling with smugglers and vintners, computing excise dues upon tallow, and gauging alebarrels ! In such toils was that mighty spirit sorrowiilly wasted ; and a hundred years may pass on before another such is given us to waste." Not... | |
| Richard Robert Madden - 1833 - عدد الصفحات: 310
...Edinburgh Review some time since, we marked the following striking sentences in relation to Burns : — " And this was he for whom the world found no fitter business than quarreling with smugglers and vinters, computing excise dues upon tallow, and gauging alebarrels! In... | |
| 1835 - عدد الصفحات: 932
...so did our peasant show himself among us; "a soul like an yEolian harp, in whose strings the vulgar wind, as it passed through them, changed itself into...quarrelling with smugglers and vintners, computing excise dues upon tallow, and gauging ale-barrels! In such toils was that mighty spirit sorrowfully... | |
| Thomas Carlyle - 1838 - عدد الصفحات: 476
...did our Peasant show himself among us ; * a soul like an -iEolian harp, in whose strings the vulgar wind, as it passed through them, changed itself into...quarrelling with smugglers and vintners, computing excise dues upon tallow, and gauging alebarrels! In such toils was that mighty Spirit sorrowfully wasted... | |
| Allan Cunningham - 1841 - عدد الصفحات: 384
...so did our Peasant show himself among us ; "a soul like an ^olian harp, in whose strings the vulgar wind, as it passed through them, changed itself into...quarrelling with smugglers and vintners, computing excise dues upon tallow, and guaging ale barrels ! In such toils was that mighty Spirit sorrowfully... | |
| 1842 - عدد الصفحات: 330
...be a diligent and honest officer ! ' " " And this was he," says a writer in the Edinburgh Review, " this was he for whom the world found no fitter business...quarrelling with smugglers and vintners, computing excise dues upon tallow, and gauging alebarrels ! In such toils was that mighty spirit sorrowfully... | |
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