...never-to-be-published, letters. They are full of oaths and obscene songs. What an antithetical mind ! — tenderness, roughness — delicacy, coarseness —...all mixed up in that one compound of inspired clay ! " 9 Hogg imagines his tales and ballads to be recited by the delicate fairy tale, " Kilmeny," and...

...never-to-be published letters. They are full of oaths and obscene songs. What an antithetical mind ! tenderness, roughness, delicacy, coarseness, sentiment,...soaring and grovelling, dirt and Deity, all mixed up in one compound of poor clay." The letters and songs thus referred to by Byron, instead of being now quietly...

...writes in 1813, " has lent me a quantity of Burns's unpublished letters What an antithetical mind! — tenderness, roughness — delicacy, coarseness —...all mixed up in that one compound of inspired clay ! " We have only to add to these antitheses, in applying them with slight modification to the writer....

...in 1813, "has lent me a quantity of Burns's unpublished letters. .. .What an antithetical mind! — tenderness, roughness — delicacy, coarseness —...all mixed up in that one compound of inspired clay !" We have only to add to these antitheses, in applying them with slight modification to the writer....

...Allen has lent me a quantity of Burns's unpublished letters. . . . What an antithetical mind ! — tenderness, roughness — delicacy, coarseness —...all mixed up in that one compound of inspired clay. — LORD BYRON. The rank of Burns is the very first of his art. — Ibid. In Scotia's choir Of minstrels...

...Allen has lent me a quantity of Burns's unpublished letters. . . . What an antithetical mind ! — tenderness, roughness — delicacy, coarseness —...all mixed up in that one compound of inspired clay. — LORD BYRON. The rank of Burns is the very first of his art. — Ibid. In Scotia's choir Of minstrels...

...poet, Burns, he has drawn a not unfaithful portrait of himself: — "What an antithetical mind! — tenderness, roughness ; — delicacy, coarseness ;...up in that one compound of inspired clay ! " It is this strangely antithetical nature which we find reflected in the poetry of Byron who, more perhaps...

...poet, Burns, he has drawn a not unfaithful portrait of himself: — "What an antithetical mind! — tenderness, roughness ; — delicacy, coarseness ;...all mixed up in that one compound of inspired clay ! " the truth of Sir Walter Scott's statement, "that in his various heroes, in Childe Harold, in Cain,...

...life. On reading a collection of Burns's poems, he once exclaimed : " What an antithetical mind ! — tenderness, roughness — delicacy, coarseness —...all mixed up in that one compound of inspired clay." The same antitheses might be applied with equal truth to himself. His place in literature is not yet...

...of Burns's unpublished letters. . . . What an antithetical mind ! — tenderness, rough' o ness — delicacy, coarseness — sentiment, sensuality —...and grovelling — dirt and deity — all mixed up Jn that one compound of inspired clay !" We have only to add to these antitheses, in applying them...