Wallace, Burns, Stevenson; appreciations . judged him harshly, in therecords of literature, not only to futuregenerations and foreign countries, but evenwith his native Scotland and a number of hiscontemporaries, that he has been regarded as apoet and nothing but a poet. . Poetry,she continues, (I appeal to all who had theadvantage of being personally acquainted with him) was actually not his forte None certainly ever out-shone Burns in thecharms—the sorcery I would almost call it—of fascinating conversation, the spontaneouseloquence of social argument, or the unstudiedpoignancy of brilliant r
Wallace, Burns, Stevenson; appreciations . judged him harshly, in therecords of literature, not only to futuregenerations and foreign countries, but evenwith his native Scotland and a number of hiscontemporaries, that he has been regarded as apoet and nothing but a poet. . Poetry,she continues, (I appeal to all who had theadvantage of being personally acquainted with him) was actually not his forte None certainly ever out-shone Burns in thecharms—the sorcery I would almost call it—of fascinating conversation, the spontaneouseloquence of social argument, or the unstudiedpoignancy of brilliant repartee. And she goeson to describe the almost superhuman fascina-tion of his voice and of his eyes, those balls ofblack fire which electrified all on whom theyrested. It seems strange to be told that it would bean injustice to judge Burns by his poetry alone ;but as to the magnetism of his presence andconversation there is only one verdict. Nomans conversation ever carried me so com-pletely off my feet, said the Duchess of Gordon. m 4£k
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