Thomas Carlyle's essay on Robert Burns. . the stern moral of the history. P. 94, 1. 13. the Poet of his Age. To whomsoever that highhonor comes, let him consider what he attempts, and in what spirit,says the essayist. And then he quotes Milton — so masterly, inspots, in his prose English. Let us repeat the words here: He whowould write heroic poems must make his whole life a heroic the other hand, is there a shade of suggestion to modern poet-laureates in Carlyles advice to let them besing the idols of thetime? P. 95, 1. 10. Will a Courser of the Sun. An excellent exampleof Carlylean d
Thomas Carlyle's essay on Robert Burns. . the stern moral of the history. P. 94, 1. 13. the Poet of his Age. To whomsoever that highhonor comes, let him consider what he attempts, and in what spirit,says the essayist. And then he quotes Milton — so masterly, inspots, in his prose English. Let us repeat the words here: He whowould write heroic poems must make his whole life a heroic the other hand, is there a shade of suggestion to modern poet-laureates in Carlyles advice to let them besing the idols of thetime? P. 95, 1. 10. Will a Courser of the Sun. An excellent exampleof Carlylean diction and imagery. P. 96, 1. 20, 21. In pitying admiration he lies enshrined in allour hearts. Reader, as we finish the study of this essay can we notre-echo this sentiment? May we not. also, enjoy this little Val-clusa Fountain? For, varying the Carlylean figure somewhat,—though in the poetic cup commended to our lips the sweet and thebitter commingle, — may we not still quaff it with pleasant memoriesof the poet, Robert Burns ?. Engraved by VV\lUam Walker and Samuel Cousins, from the painting by Alexander Nasmyth done in 1787.
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