Thomas Carlyle's essay on Robert Burns. . SIBLEY & COMPANY BOSTON CHICAGO Copyright, 1896,By Leach, Shewell, & Sanborn. Typography by C. J. Peters <fe Soy, by Berwick & Smith. PREFACE. In reading this delightful monograph, it should con-stantly be kept in mind that Carlyle did not attempt, inany formal or biographical sense, to write a life of thepoet, but simply used The Life of Robert Burns, by J. (Edinburgh, 1828), as a convenient text aboutwhich to group many sentences of shining rhetoric, keencriticism, and, best of all, a great deal of noble and in-spiring
Thomas Carlyle's essay on Robert Burns. . SIBLEY & COMPANY BOSTON CHICAGO Copyright, 1896,By Leach, Shewell, & Sanborn. Typography by C. J. Peters <fe Soy, by Berwick & Smith. PREFACE. In reading this delightful monograph, it should con-stantly be kept in mind that Carlyle did not attempt, inany formal or biographical sense, to write a life of thepoet, but simply used The Life of Robert Burns, by J. (Edinburgh, 1828), as a convenient text aboutwhich to group many sentences of shining rhetoric, keencriticism, and, best of all, a great deal of noble and in-spiring sentiment. Indeed, the monograph, first printedin the Edinburgh, Review, No. 96 (1828), had as its title\ only that grand monosyllable which for more than aI century has thrilled the hearts of the lovers of lyricpoetry, — Burns. Therefore, let no student come to the reading of thislittle book with the purpose merely of finding certainfacts in the life of the poet; for while the facts arethere, they are incidental and subsid
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