 | Robert Burns - 1800 - 424 σελίδες
...than of a genius exclusively adapted adapted to that species of composition. From his conversation I should have pronounced him to be fitted to excel in...of ambition he had chosen to exert his abilities. " Among the subjects on which he was accustomed to dwell, the characters of the individuals with whom... | |
 | Thomas N. Brown - 1859 - 360 σελίδες
...diffusive fame. The foremost man of all his time, after gauging his intellectual capacity, pronounced him fitted to excel in whatever walk of ambition he had chosen to exert his faculties. And in our day we are witnesses of what could scarcely have been predicted in his own, the... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1813 - 422 σελίδες
...temper, than of a genius exclusively adapted to that species of composition. From his conversation I should have pronounced him to be fitted to excel in whatever walk of ambition he had chosen to ex-» ert his abilities. " Among the subjects on which he was accustomed to dwell, the characters of... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1831 - 484 σελίδες
...temper, than of a genius exclusively adapted to that species of composition. From his conversation I should have pronounced him to be fitted to excel in...of ambition he had chosen to exert his abilities. " Among the'subjects on which he was accustomed to: dwell, the characters of the individuals with whom... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1834 - 420 σελίδες
...temper, than of a genius exclusively adapted to that species of composition. From his conversation, I should have pronounced him to be fitted to excel in...of ambition he had chosen to exert his abilities. Notwithstanding various reports I heard during the preceding winter, of Burns' predilection for convivial... | |
 | 576 σελίδες
...temper, than of a genius exclusively adapted to that species of composition. From his conversation I should have pronounced him to be fitted to excel in whatever walk of ambition he had chosen to exert bis talents." We suspect just as much as this might have been said of every true poet. Another and... | |
 | 1835 - 932 σελίδες
...temper, than of a genius exclusively adapted to that species of composition. From this conversation I should have pronounced him to be fitted to excel in...of ambition he had chosen to exert his abilities." But this, if we mistake not, is at all times the very essence of a truly poetical endowment. Poetry,... | |
 | 1836 - 694 σελίδες
...temper, than of a genius exclusively adapted to that species of composition. From his conversation, I should have pronounced him to be fitted to excel in...of ambition he had chosen to exert his abilities." I now proceed to compare the development of the individual organs with the strength of the corresponding... | |
 | Robert Burns, John Gibson Lockhart - 1837 - 628 σελίδες
...temper, than of a genius exclusively adapted to that species of composition. From his conversation I should have pronounced him- to be fitted to excel in whatever walk of ambition be had chosen to exert his abilities. Among the subjects ton which he was accustomed to dwell, the... | |
 | James Currie - 1838 - 92 σελίδες
...temper, than of a genins exclusively adapted to that species of composition. From his conversation I should have pronounced him to be fitted to excel in...of ambition he had chosen to exert his abilities. In his political principles he was then a Jacobite; which was perhaps owing partly to this, that his... | |
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All the faculties of Burns's mind were, as far as I could judge, equally vigorous ; and his predilection for poetry was rather the result of his own enthusiastic and impassioned temper, than of a genius exclusively adapted to that species of composition.... 
