Prof. Wilson
Cited as Prof. Wilson. — 36 quotations
bam
To relieve the tedium, he kept plying them with all manner of bams.
Commerce
Musicians . . . taught the people in angelic harmonies to commerce with heaven.
Craft
The evolutions of the numerous tiny craft moving over the lake.
Craze
It was quite a craze with him [Burns] to have his Jean dressed genteelly.
Degree
It has been said that Scotsmen . . . are . . . grave to a degree on occasions when races more favored by nature are gladsome to excess.
Desiderate
Pray have the goodness to point out one word missing that ought to have been there -- please to insert a desiderated stanza. You can not.
Epicene
The literary prigs epicene.
Ever
She [Fortune] soon wheeled away, with scornful laughter, out of sight for ever and day.
Facete
“How to interpose” with a small, smart remark, sentiment facete, or unctuous anecdote.
Facile
This is treating Burns like a child, a person of so facile a disposition as not to be trusted without a keeper on the king's highway.
Fig
Were they all in full fig, the females with feathers on their heads, the males with chapeaux bras?
Flow
The exhilaration of a night that needed not the influence of the flowing bowl.
Fork
Forking the sheaves on the high-laden cart.
Go-by
Some songs to which we have given the go-by.
Hearsay
Much of the obloquy that has so long rested on the memory of our great national poet originated in frivolous hearsays of his life and conversation.
Hieroglyphic
Pages no better than blanks to common minds, to his, hieroglyphical of wisest secrets.
Human
We humans often find ourselves in strange position.
Lion
Such society was far more enjoyable than that of Edinburgh, for here he was not a lion, but a man.
Ongoing
The common ongoings of this our commonplace world, and everyday life.
Open
Poetry that had opened up so many delightful views into the character and condition of our “bold peasantry, their country's pride.”
Plack
With not a plack in the pocket of the poet.
Pulpiteer
We never can think it sinful that Burns should have been humorous on such a pulpiteer.
Quiescent
In times of national security, the feeling of patriotism . . . is so quiescent that it seems hardly to exist.
Racy
The rich and racy humor of a natural converser fresh from the plow.
Revolutionary
Dumfries was a Tory town, and could not tolerate a revolutionary.
Run
Burns never dreamed of looking down on others as beneath him, merely because he was conscious of his own vast superiority to the common run of men.
Salaam
Finally, Josiah might have made his salaam to the exciseman just as he was folding up that letter.
Sederunt
'T is pity we have not Burns's own account of that long sederunt.
So-so
He [Burns] certainly wrote some so-so verses to the Tree of Liberty.
Spunk
A lawless and dangerous set, men of spunk, and spirit, and power, both of mind and body.
Staff
He spoke of it [beer] in “The Earnest Cry,” and likewise in the “Scotch Drink,” as one of the staffs of life which had been struck from the poor man's hand.
Supereminence
He was not forever beset with the consciousness of his own supereminence.
Swallow
There being nothing too gross for the swallow of political rancor.
Tedium
To relieve the tedium, he kept plying them with all manner of bams.
Till
Similar sentiments will recur to every one familiar with his writings -- all through them till the very end.
Troll
Thence the catch and troll, while “Laughter, holding both his sides,” sheds tears to song and ballad pathetic on the woes of married life.