 | Robert Burns - 1800 - 424 pages
...legal right of the British citizen * " The poetic genius of my country found me as the prophetic bard Elijah did Elisha — at the plough ; and threw her inspiring mantle over me. She bade me sing the loves, the joys, the rural scenes and rural pleasures of my native soil, in... | |
 | Robert Burns, Thomas Park - Bookbinding - 1808 - 330 pages
...inherit the virtues of their ancestors ? The poetic genins of my country found me, as the prophetic bard Elijah did Elisha— at the plough ; and threw her inspiring mantle over me. She bade me sing the loves, the joys, the rural scenes and rural pleasures of my native soil, in... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1811 - 500 pages
...inherit the virtues of their Ancestors ? The Poetic Genius of my Country found me, as the prophetic bard Elijah did Elisha — at the PLOUGH ; and threw her inspiring mantle over me. She bade me sing the loves, the joys, the rural scenes and rural pleasures of my native soil, in... | |
 | England - 1854 - 800 pages
...symptoms of disapprobation. NEWS FROM THE FARM. " THE Ayrshire Ploughman," glorious Burns, tells us that the muse of his country found him, as Elijah...the plough, and threw her inspiring mantle over him. Grateful Caledonia sent her inspired child to an excise office ! and in the discriminating patronage... | |
 | 1817 - 506 pages
...the Caledonian Hunt, Burns observes, " the poetic genius of my country found me as the prophetic bard Elijah did Elisha, at the plough, and threw her inspiring mantle over me." The alto-relievo of the sculptor will embody this elegant thought on marble, and the effect of... | |
 | English literature - 1820 - 344 pages
...the Caledonian Hunt, where he says, " The poetic genius of my country found me as the prophetic bard Elijah did Elisha, at the plough, and threw her inspiring mantle over me." There are only two figures in the piece, the bard, a fine rustic figure, represented as grasping... | |
 | Society of ancient Scots - 1821 - 226 pages
...boldly claimed his station in renown. " The poetic genius of my country found me, as the prophetic bard Elijah did Elisha, at the PLOUGH ; and threw her inspiring mantle over me. She bade me sing the loves, the joys, the rural scenes, and rural pleasures, of my native soil,... | |
 | Joseph Robertson, Society of Ancient Scots - Poets, Scottish - 1821 - 414 pages
...boldly claimed his station in renown. "The poetic genius of my country found me, as the prophetic bard Elijah did Elisha, at the PLOUGH ; and threw her inspiring mantle over me. She bade me sing the loves, the joys, the rural scenes, and rural pleasures, of my native soil,... | |
 | Joseph Robertson, Society of Ancient Scots, London - Authors, Scottish - 1822 - 458 pages
...boldly claimed his station in renown. " The poetic genius of my country found me, as the prophetic hard Elijah did Elisha, at the PLOUGH ; and threw her inspiring mantle over me. She hade me sing the loves, the joys, the rural scenes, and rural pleasures, of my native soil,... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - English poetry - 1822 - 418 pages
...inherit the virtues of their Ancestors ! The Poetic Genius of my Country found me, as the prophetic bard Elijah did Elisha — at the plough ; and threw her inspiring mantle over me. She bade me sing the loves, the joys, the rural scenes and rural pleasures of my native soil, in... | |
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The poetic genius of my country found me, as the prophetic bard Elijah did Elisha, at the plough, and threw her. inspiring mantle over me. 
