 I had usually half a dozen or more pieces on hand ; I took up one or other, as it suited the momentary tone of the mind, and dismissed the work as it bordered on fatigue. My passions, when once lighted up, raged like so many devils, till they got vent...  The Monthly Epitome - Seite 3251801Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 1877 - 828 Seiten
...Davis, the national singer of Ireland. " My passions," said Burns, "when once lighted up, raged like so many devils, till they got vent in rhyme ; and then the conning over my verses, like a spell, soothed all into quiet." And in the very spirit of the enthusiasm of love he... | |
 | Allan Cunningham, Charles Mackay - 1879 - 628 Seiten
...and dismissed the work as it bordered on fatigue. My passions, when once lighted up, raged like so many devils, till they got vent in rhyme ; and then the conning over my verses, like a spell, soothed all into quiet ! None of the rhymes of those days are in print, except,... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1880 - 182 Seiten
...was content to exhibit his feeling as he felt it : ' My passions, when once lighted up raged like so many devils, till they got vent in rhyme ; and then the conning over my verses, like a spell, soothed all into quiet.' This man, who despises cant, could not wear the classical... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1880 - 362 Seiten
...and dismissed the work as it bordered on fatigue. My passions, when once lighted up, raged like so many devils, till they got vent in rhyme ; and then the conning over my verses, like a spell, soothed all into quiet ! None of the rhymes of those days are in print, except... | |
 | John Nichol - 1882 - 102 Seiten
...influences of Coila, to which he thus refers : — " My passions, when once lighted up, raged like so many devils, till they got vent in rhyme, and then the conning over my verses, like a spell, soothed all into quiet." Here the lyrist of the last century anticipates the... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1882 - 1108 Seiten
...to exhibit his feeling as he felt it: 'My passions, when once lighted up, raged like no many devil*, till they got vent in rhyme : and then the conning over my verses, like a spell, soothed all into quiet.' This man, who despises cant, could not wear the classical... | |
 | Rose Elizabeth Cleveland - 1885 - 212 Seiten
...balm which the utterance is to his reader. Burns said, " My passion* when once lighted raged like so many devils till they got vent in rhyme ; and then the conning over my verses, like a spell, soothed all into quiet." But where will one find a lullaby in George Eliot's... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1885 - 364 Seiten
...had become the subject of several fine lyrics, for his "passions, when once lighted up, raged like so many devils till they got vent in rhyme ; and then the conning over the verses, like a spell, soothed all into quiet." The object of his next attachment appears to have... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1889 - 328 Seiten
...with me O.' II. 139-144. When youthful love, Sec. ' My passions, when once lighted up, raged like so many devils, till they got vent in rhyme ; and then the conning over my verses, like a spell, soothed all into quiet.' — (Autobiographical Letter to Dr. Moore.} ll. 153,... | |
 | Charles Rogers - 1891 - 412 Seiten
...and dismissing the work as it bordered on fatigue. My passions, when once lighted up, raged like very devils, till they got vent in rhyme ; and then the conning over my verses, like a spell, soothed all into quiet. The religious pieces referred to are " Winter — a Dirge,"... | |
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