 | Robert Burns - 1800 - عدد الصفحات: 424
...rather the result of his own enthusiastic and impassioned temper, than of a genius exclusively adapted adapted to that species of composition. From his conversation...of ambition he had chosen to exert his abilities. " Among the subjects on which he was accustomed to dwell, the characters of the individuals with whom... | |
 | 1828 - عدد الصفحات: 722
...could judge, ' equally vigorous ; and his predilection for poetry was rather ' the result of his own enthusiastic and impassioned temper, than 'of a genius...From his conversation I should have pronounced him to bo * fitted to excel in whatever walk of ambition be bad chosen to ' exert his abilities.' But this,... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1806 - عدد الصفحات: 422
...as I could judge, equally vigorous; and his predilection for poetry was rather the result of his own enthusiastic and impassioned temper, than of a genius...of ambition he had chosen to exert his abilities. " Among the subjects on which he was accustomed to dwell, the characters of the individuals with whom... | |
 | Thomas N. Brown - 1859 - عدد الصفحات: 360
...diffusive fame. The foremost man of all his time, after gauging his intellectual capacity, pronounced him fitted to excel in whatever walk of ambition he had chosen to exert his faculties. And in our day we are witnesses of what could scarcely have been predicted in his own, the... | |
 | John Black - 1810 - عدد الصفحات: 460
...as I could judge, equally vigorous; and his predilection for poetry was rather the result of his own enthusiastic and impassioned temper, than of a genius...exclusively adapted to that species of composition." -fOf these Discourses I intended to give some analysis; but they are written with such condensation... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1813 - عدد الصفحات: 422
...as I could judge, equally vigorous; and his predilection for poetry was rather the result of his own enthusiastic and impassioned temper, than of a genius...excel in whatever walk of ambition he had chosen to ex-» ert his abilities. " Among the subjects on which he was accustomed to dwell, the characters of... | |
 | Robert Burns, James Currie - 1820 - عدد الصفحات: 484
...J could judge, equally vigorous ; and his predilection for poetry was rather the result of his own enthusiastic and impassioned temper, than of a genius...exclusively adapted to that species of composition. From his conrersation I should have pronounced him to be fitted to excel in whatever walk of ambition he had... | |
 | Society of ancient Scots - 1821 - عدد الصفحات: 226
...reason to agree with Professor Stewart, that " his predilection for poetry was rather the result of an enthusiastic and impassioned temper, than of a genius...exclusively adapted to that species of composition." The late Dr. Robertson, the historian, used to say that his prose compositions seemed to him even more... | |
 | Joseph Robertson, Society of Ancient Scots - 1821 - عدد الصفحات: 414
...reason to agree with Professor Stewart, that " his predilection for poetry was rather the result of an enthusiastic and impassioned temper, than of a genius...exclusively adapted to that species of composition." The late Dr. Robertson, the historian, used to say that his prose compositions seemed to him even more... | |
 | Joseph Clinton Robertson - 1822 - عدد الصفحات: 414
...reason to agree with Professor Stewart, that " his predilection for poetry was rather the result of an enthusiastic and impassioned temper, than of a genius...exclusively adapted to that species of composition." The late Dr. Robertson, the historian, used to say that his prose compositions seemed to him even more... | |
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All the faculties of Burns's mind were, as far as I could judge, equally vigorous ; and his predilection for poetry was rather the result of his own enthusiastic and impassioned temper, than of a genius exclusively adapted to that species of composition.... 
