...gentlemen of the Caledonian Hunt : — " 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." — Nor is the indifferent sculpture redeemed by the inscription. The merits of him who wrote...

...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...

...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...

...allusion, not profanely intended, that the " poetic genius of his country found him, as the prophet-bard Elijah did Elisha, at the plough, and threw her inspiring mantle over him. She bade him sing the loves, the joys, the rural scenes, and rural pleasures of his native soil, in...

...around him. Mr. Chantrey was a child of poverty, and it has been said of him as Burns said of himself, that the muse of his country found him as Elijah did Elisha, at the plough. He has executed several beautiful groups, but in general his busts are said to be the best of all his...

...of his own feeling. Robert Burns said, that the muse of his country found him as Elijah did Elishu, at the plough, and threw her inspiring mantle over him, and the same may bejsaid of Chantrey :— it was in a seehided place, a nameless spot, into which art had never penetrated,...

...noblemen and gentry of Scotland. He said, " 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 natal soil in...

...country found me," savs he, in his preface to the Edinburgh edition of his poems, " as the prophetic bard Elijah did Elisha, at the plough, and threw her inspiring mantle over me." In accordance with this baptismal rite of consecration, he devoted his genius to the task of singing...

...any age or country but his own can claim back any inspiration which they have lent him. He calls np no shapes from antiquity : he gives us no established...a secluded place, a nameless spot, into which art hod never penetrated, that the inspiration of sculpture fell upon him. The Greeks charmed the whole...

...to enjoy his regal dignity, an object of admiration, rather than of affection in his exalted sphere. Burns said that the muse of his country found him as Elijah did Elisha at the plough, and threw her mantle of inspiration over him. If, obedient to the mandate of his mistress, the poet abandoned the...