...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!' In truth, with regard to happiness, or misery, the impulse...

...those poetic moods. As Burns himself expresses it, 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 nuiet." Jean understood her husband's temperament, and though...

...the work as it bordered on fatigue. My paflions, when once, lighted up, raged like fo many dtvils, till they got vent in rhyme ; and then the conning over my verfes, like a fpell, foothed all into quiet ! None of the rhymes of thofe days are in print, except,...