| Robert Burns - 1800 - 424 Seiten
...his mind, and its first expansion to the lessons of the tutelary muse. " I saw thy pulses maddening play, " Wild send thee pleasure's devious way, " Misled...the light that led astray, " Was light from Heaven." Vol. iii. p. 110. " I have already transgressed far beyond the bounds I had proposed to myself, on... | |
| 1809 - 530 Seiten
...thy pulse's maddening play, Wild send thee Pleasure's devious way, Misled by Fancy's meteor-ray, , By Passion driven ; But yet the light that led astray Was light from heaven. There is another fragment, called a Vision, which belongs to a higher order of poetry. If Burns had... | |
| Robert Burns - 1806 - 422 Seiten
...delineates the gradual expansion of his mind to the lessons of the " tutelary muse," who concludes an address to her pupil, almost unique for simplicity and beautiful poetry, wit ; h these lines: " I saw thy pulse's madd'ning play Wild send thee pleasure's devious way; Misled... | |
| Robert Burns, Thomas Park - 1808 - 330 Seiten
...saw thy pulse's maddening play Wild send thee pleasure's devious way, Misled by fancy's meteor-ray, By passion driven; But yet the light that led astray Was light from heaven ! ' I taught thy manners-painting strains, The loves, the ways of simple swains, Till now, o'er all my wide... | |
| Henry Mackenzie - 1808 - 440 Seiten
...saw thy pulse's maddening play, Wild, send thee Pleasure's devious way, Misled by Fancy's meteor-ray, By Passion driven; But yet the light that led astray Was light from heaven. Of strains like the above, solemn and sublime, with that rapt and inspired melancholy in which the... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 366 Seiten
...saw thy pulse's maddening play, Wild, send thee Pleasure's devious way, Misled by fancy's meteor.ray, By Passion driven ; But yet the light that led astray Was light from heaven. Of strains like the above, solemn and sublime, with that rapt and inspired melancholy in which the... | |
| British poets - 1822 - 274 Seiten
...adored Name, I taught thee how to pour in song, To soothe thy flame. ' I saw thy pulse's maddening play, Wild send thee pleasure's devious way, Misled...the light that led astray Was light from heaven. ' I taught thy manners-painting strains, The loves, the ways of simple swains, Till now, o'er all my wide... | |
| Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - 1822 - 418 Seiten
...adored JVamc, 'I taught thee how to pour in song, ' To sooth thy flame. " I saw thy pulse's maddening play, ' Wild send thee pleasure's devious way, ' Misled...light that led astray ' Was light from heaven. ' I taught thy manners-painting strains, ' The loves, the ways of simple swains, ' Till now, o'er all my... | |
| British essayists - 1823 - 802 Seiten
...saw thy pulse's maddening play, Wild, send thee Pleasure's devious way, Misled by fancy's meteor-ray, By Passion driven ; But yet the light that led astray, Was light from heaven. Of strains like the above, solemnand sublime, with that rapt and inspired melancholy in which the poet... | |
| 1823 - 354 Seiten
...saw thy pulse's maddening play, Wild, send thee Pleasure's devious way, Misled by fancy's meteor-ray, By Passion driven; But yet the light that led astray Was light from heaven. Of strains like the above, solemn and sublime, with that rapt and inspired melancholy in which the... | |
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