 Cold on Canadian hills, or Minden's plain, Perhaps that parent wept her soldier slain — Bent o'er her babe, her eye dissolved in dew, The big drops, mingling with the milk he drew, Gave the sad presage of his future years, The child of misery baptized...  Illustrated ed. Summer time in the country - Stran 82avtor: Robert Eldridge Aris Willmott - 1858Celotni ogled - O knjigi
 | Samuel Tyler - 1848 - 222 strani
...Minden's plain, Perhaps that parent wept her soldier slain, — Bent o'er her babe, her eye dissolved in dew, The big drops, mingling with the milk he drew,...future years, The child of misery baptized in tears.' Burns seemed much affected by the print, or rather, the ideas which it suggested to his mind. He actually... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1848 - 468 strani
...Minden's plain, Perhaps that parent mourn'd her soldier slain ; Bent o'er her babe, her eye dissolved in dew, The big drops, mingling with the milk he drew,...future years, The child of misery, baptized in tears." Langhorne, The Country Justice. This passage, beautiful in itself, has an associated interest beyond... | |
 | Robert Eldridge Aris Willmott - 1849 - 256 strani
...Minden's plain, Perhaps that mother wept her soldier slain ; Bent o'er her babe, her eye dissolv'd in dew ; The big drops mingling with the milk he drew,...Bonhour's collection of Thoughts from the Fathers, I found the following apostrophe of St. Leon: " Heureux vos larmes, saint Apostre, qui, pour effacer le peche... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1849 - 906 strani
...The big drops, mingling with the milk be drew, • Morrison's Burns, vol. L pp. Ixxi, Ixxii. XlTlll Gave the sad presage of his future years, The child of misery baptized in tears." " Burns seemed much affected by the print, or rather the ideas which it suggested to his mind. He actually... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 616 strani
...Minden's plain, Perhaps that parent mourned her soldier slain; Bent o'er her babe, her eye dissolved in dew, The big drops mingling with the milk he drew,...years, The child of misery, baptized in tears. The allusion to the dead soldier and his widow on the field of battle was made the subject of a print by... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1851 - 332 strani
...Minden's plain, Perhaps that parent wept her soldier slain — Bent o'er her babe, her eye dissolved in dew, The big drops mingling with the milk he drew,...sad presage of his future years, The child of misery baptised in tears." Burns seemed much affected by the print, or rather the ideas which it suggested... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1851 - 764 strani
...that parent mourned her soldier slain ; Bent o'er her babe, her eye dissolved in dew, Th« big drope age 1 * 0 baptised in tears. This allusion to the dead soldier and his widow on the field of battle was made... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1852 - 336 strani
...Minden's plain, Perhaps that parent wept her soldier slain— Bent o'er her babe, her eye dissolved in dew, The big drops mingling with the milk he drew,...sad presage of his future years, The child of misery baptised in tears." Peace." 1 I whispered my information to a friend present, who mentioned it to Burns,... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - 1852 - 580 strani
...mother wept her soldier slain ; Bent o'er her babe, her eye dissolved in dew, The. big drops mingled with the milk he drew Gave the sad presage of his...years, The child of misery, baptized in tears.' "The question of BURNS, 'if any one could tell him who was the author of the lines,' reminds me to nek of... | |
 | 1852 - 590 strani
...wept her soldier -1 in : Bent o'er her bane, her eye dissnlved in dew, The hie drops mingling wilh the milk he drew Gave the sad presage of his future years, The child of misery baptized in tears." "Burns seemed much affected by the print, or rather by the ideas which it suggested to his mind. He... | |
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