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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 74

25th-Robert Burns born, 1759

25th-Robert Burns born, 1759.

He was born in a poor Ayrshire hut. The largest soul of all the British lands came among us in the shape of a hard-handed Scottish peasant. Here was a piece of the right Saxon stuff. A wild impetuous whirlwind in passion and faculty slumbered quiet there; such heavenly melody dwelling in the heart of it. From the gracefullest utterances of courtesy to the highest fire of passionate speech; loud floods of mirth, soft wailings of affection, clear piercing insight; all was in him. Wit, wild laughter, energy, directness, sincerity—so in his poetry, so in his life. The song he sings is not of fantasticalities; the prime merit of this is truth.

Carlyle's Hero Worship.