The genius and character of Robert Burns Author:John Wilson Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 223 THE GENIUS AND CHARACTER OF BURNS. powerful than in " the Cottar's Saturday Night." " Let who may have the making of the laws give me the making of the ba... more »llads of a people," is a profound saying ; and the truth it somewhat paradoxically expresses is in much as applicable to a cultivated and intellectual as to u rude and imaginative age. From our old traditional ballads we know what was dearest to the hearts and souls of the people. . How much deeper must be the power over them of the poems and songs of such a man as Burns, of himself alone superior in genius to all those nameless minstrels, and of a nobler nature; and yet more endeared to thom by pity for the sorrows that clouded the close of his life. THE END. chapter{Section 4CATALOGUE OF BOOKS PUBLISHED 1!V WILLIAM GOWANS Ignvranct it tht euru of God; knwltdyt the mity whtrtivith w Jty to ktavtn." Without baokt God t'j gilent, jattirt dormant, natural telenet at a ftand, fhilu f, Uttw-t dumb, nd nil ;A-',i inwittd in Cimtmrian darknen." Baktiiulin. Nos. 81, 83, And 85 CENTRE STREET. NEW YORK: 1861. chapter{Section 5CATALOGUE WILLIAM GOWANS' PUBLICATIONS, Plato's Phcedon ; . Or, a Discussion on the Immortality of the Soul. Translated from the Greek by Charles S. Stanford. A new edition, enriched with Archbishop Fenelon's Life of Plato; the Opinions of ancient, medieval, and modern philosophers and divines, on the Soul'a Immortality; together with Notes, historical, biographical, and mythological. To which is added a Catalogue of all the work known to have been written on a Future State. With a beautiful and accurate portrait of Plato. 12mo. pp. 309. Price $1.00. 1854. Ancient Fragments. Namely:—The Morals of Confuoius, the Chinese Philosopher; The Oracles of Zoroaster, the fo...« less