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Write me soon, were it but a few lines, just to tell me how that good, sagacious man your father is, that kind, dainty body your mother, that strapping chiel your brother Douglas-and my friend Rachel, who is as far before Rachel of old, as she was before her blear-eyed sister Leah. LVI-To DR. MOORE. MAUCHLINE, 2nd August 1787.
It is surprising that a person so grave as the Dictionary should indulge in useless luxuries. The bowling-green of Southwark was called Tarrinzeau Field, because it had belonged to the Barons Hastings, who are also Barons Tarrinzeau and Mauchline.
A good God bless you, and make you happy up to the warmest weeping wish of parting friendship! ... If you see Jean tell her I will meet her, so help me God in my hour of need! MOSSGIEL, 20th March, 1786. DEAR SIR, I am heartily sorry I had not the pleasure of seeing you as you returned through Mauchline; but as I was engaged, I could not be in town before the evening.
Oh, there would be a scene, a few hysterics perhaps, and there the matter would be at an end. A wife can't afford to be so punctilious as a maiden fancy free. She has herself too much to lose. George accepted the maternal advice, and went out to Mauchline after business hours that very day. Next afternoon Gladys herself drove the lawyer and his wife from Bourhill to the station.
To-night, at the sacred hour of eight, I expect to meet you at the Throne of Grace. I hope, as I go home tonight, to find a letter from you at the post office in Mauchline. I have just once seen that dear hand since I left Edinburgh a letter indeed which much affected me.
I am, after all my tribulation, Dear Sir, yours, CVI. To MRS. DUNLOP, OF DUNLOP. Mauchline, 27th Sept. 1788. I have received twins, dear Madam, more than once; but scarcely ever with more pleasure than when I received yours of the 12th instant. To make myself understood; I had wrote to Mr.
Cowper was a stranger to Burns's high animal spirits, and his robust enjoyment of life. He had affections, but no passions. At Mauchline, Burns, whose irregularities did not escape the censure of the kirk, became involved, through his friendship with Gavin Hamilton, in the controversy between the Old Light and New Light clergy.
One day, in a hermitage on the banks of Nith, belonging to a gentleman in my neighbourhood, who is so good as give me a key at pleasure, I wrote as follows; supposing myself the sequestered, venerable inhabitant of the lonely mansion. Thou whom chance may hither lead, Be thou clad in russet weed, etc. CV. To MR. MORISON, WRIGHT, MAUCHLINE. Ellisland, September 22nd 1788.
With a leer of what the French call fatuity, he bids the belles of Mauchline beware of his seductions; and the same cheap self-satisfaction finds a yet uglier vent when he plumes himself on the scandal at the birth of his first bastard.
Such a habitation is calculated to make beasts of men and women; and it indicates a degree of barbarism which I did not imagine to exist in Scotland, that a tiller of broad fields, like the farmer of Mauchline, should have his abode in a pig-sty.
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