 He is an exceptional genius. The people who care nothing for literature and poetry care for Burns. It was indifferent — they thought who saw him — whether he wrote verse or not : he could have done anything else as welL Yet how true a poet is he !...  Wayside Gleanings for Leisure Moments - Página 128por Anna L. Beck Möring - 1882 - 150 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Boston Burns Club (Boston, Mass.) - 1859 - 100 páginas
...masters — Rabelais, Shakspeare in comedy, Cervantes, Butler, and Burns. If I should add another name, 1 find it only in a living countryman of Burns. He is...— they thought who saw him — whether he wrote verse or not ; he could have done anything else as well. Yet how true a poet is he ! And the poet,... | |
 | Massachusetts Historical Society - 1882 - 92 páginas
...that I find his grand plain sense in close chain with the greatest masters — Rabelais, Shakespeare in comedy, Cervantes, Butler, and Burns. If I should...— they thought who saw him — whether he wrote verse or not ; he could have done anything else as well. Yet how true a poet is he ! And the poet,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 440 páginas
...into his eyes saw that they might look down the sky as easily. His muse and teaching was common-sense, joyful, aggressive, irresistible. Not Latimer, not...— they thought who saw him — whether he wrote verse or not : he could have done anything else as welL Yet how true a poet is he ! And the poet, too,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 438 páginas
...into his eyes saw that they might look down the sky as easily. His muse and teaching was common-sense, joyful, aggressive, irresistible. Not Latimer, not...— they thought who saw him — whether he wrote verse or not : he could have done anything else as well. Yet how true a poet is he ! And the poet,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 488 páginas
...more telling blows against false theology than did this brave singer. The Confession of Augsburg, tho Declaration of Independence, the French Rights of...— they thought who saw him — whether he wrote verse or not : he could have done anything else as welL Yet how true a poet is he 1 And the poet, too,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1884 - 376 páginas
...into his eyes saw that they might look down the sky as easily. His muse and teaching was commonsense, joyful, aggressive, irresistible. Not Latimer, not...— they thought who saw him — whether he wrote verse or not : he could have done anything else as well. Yet how true a poet is he ! And the poet,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1884 - 440 páginas
...sky as easily. His muse and teaching was common-sense, joyful, aggressive, irresistible. Not Latimcr, not Luther struck more telling blows against false...— they thought who saw him — whether he wrote verse or not : he could have done anything else as well. Yet how true a poet is he ! And the poet,... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon - 1893 - 516 páginas
...that I find his grand, plain sense in close chain with the greatest masters, — Rabelais, Shakespeare in comedy, Cervantes, Butler, and Burns. If I should...— they thought who saw him — whether he wrote verse or not : he could have done anything else as well. Yet how true a poet he is ! And the poet,... | |
 | Thomas Brackett Reed, Rossiter Johnson, Justin McCarthy, Albert Ellery Bergh - 1900 - 474 páginas
...that I find his grand, plain sense in close chain with the greatest masters — Rabelais, Shakespeare in comedy, Cervantes, Butler, and Burns. If I should...— they thought who saw him — whether he wrote verse or not ; he could have done anything else as well. Yet how true a poet is he ! And the poet,... | |
 | Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - 1902 - 468 páginas
...that I find his grand plain sense in close chain with the greatest masters— Rabelais, Shakespeare in comedy, Cervantes, Butler and Burns. If I should...have done anything else as well. Yet how true a poet is he! And the poet, too, of poor men, of grey hodden, and the guernsey coat, and the blouse. He has... | |
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