Studies in English literatureBeing typical selections of British and American authorship, from Shakespeare to the present time ..with definitions, notes, analyses, and glossary as an aid to systematic literary study .. . irkie, cad a lord. Wha struts, and stares, and a that; Though hundreds worship at his word, He s but a coof for a that; 20 For a that, and a that. His riband, star, and a that; The man of independent mind. He looks and laughs at a that. 4. A prince can mak a belted knight, 25 A marquis, duke, and a that; But an honest man s aboon his might. Guid faith, he mauna fa that! Notes.
Studies in English literatureBeing typical selections of British and American authorship, from Shakespeare to the present time ..with definitions, notes, analyses, and glossary as an aid to systematic literary study .. . irkie, cad a lord. Wha struts, and stares, and a that; Though hundreds worship at his word, He s but a coof for a that; 20 For a that, and a that. His riband, star, and a that; The man of independent mind. He looks and laughs at a that. 4. A prince can mak a belted knight, 25 A marquis, duke, and a that; But an honest man s aboon his might. Guid faith, he mauna fa that! Notes.—8. gowd, gold. 17. birkie, a forward, conceited fel- 10. hoddm-grey,woollen cloth ofa coarse low. quality. 20. coof, a blockhead. II. Gie = give. 28. fii tliat, try that. BURNS. - For a that, and a that, Their dignities, and a that; The pith o sense, and pride o worth,Are higher ranks than a that. 5. Then let us pray that come it may,As come it will, for a sense and worth oer a the earth,May bear the gree, and a a that, and a that, Its coming yet, for a that,That man to man, the warl oer,Shall brothers be for a that. >6. bear tlie grcc, be victorious. XVIII. WILLIAM WORDSWORTH. ^^/p^i^^W?^ CHARACTERIZATION BY LOWELL. I. It cannot be denied that in Wordsworth the very highestpowers of the poetic mind were associated with a certain ten-dency to the diffuse and commonplace. It is in the understand- From Among My Books, by James Russell 2QO WORDSWORTH. ing (always prosaic) that the great golden veins of his imagina-tion are imbedded. He wrote too much to write always well;for it is not a great Xerxes army of words, but a compact Greekten thousand, that march safely down to posterity. He set tasksto his divine faculty, which is much the same as trying to makeJoves eagle do the service of a clucking hen. Throughout The Prelude and The Excursion he seems striving to bindthe wizard Imagination with the sand-ropes of dry disquisition,and to
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