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The Annalist
occasion . More recently a monument was erected at Edinburgh , containing a statue of Burns from the chisel of Flaxman . In the words of Camphell , Farewell , High Chief of Scottish song ! Tliat eould ' st alternately impart Wisdom and rapture in thy page , And brand each vice with satire strong ; Whose lines are mottoes of the heart .
Whose truths electrify the sage : Fane-well , and ne ' er may envy dare To wring one baleful poison-drop From tlie crush'd laurels of thy bust ; But while tlie lark sings sweet in air . Still may the grateful pilgrim stop , To bless the spot that holds thy dust ' .
TIIE SISTER OP BURNS . From the grave of Burns we now turn to the cottage of his surviving sister . The following is an extract of a letter from Mr . Robert Chambers , of Edinburgh , to T . Carlyle , Esq , London : " A sister of Bums , the last survivor of his father ' s family , still lives . She is now a widow , at an advanced age , and resides at the village of Tranent
, in Haddingtonshire , with two unmarried daughters , who endeavour to support her by the exercise of their needles . In short , the sister of Burns has fallen , in the course of Providence , into poverty . One only alleviation of her fate has sprung from the fame of her brother , in the shape of the most trifling annual pittance from the Scottish Exchequer . "I am satisfied , from rigid inquiries , that Mrs . Begg and her two daughters are perfectly worthy persons . The public is , doubtless , much taxed ; but on the other band , some claims are sacred . The poems of Burns daily deli
give ght to thousands , and will continue to do so for ages . His productions wax yearly in public esteem , as time passes on , and brings no second Burns . The name of the Ayrshire bard has even been associated by some living writers with those of which England is proudest . While be soars so high , to think of one so near and dear to him as a sister sinking into penury—hearing from a cold inglecheek , the echoes of a nation's acclaim at every mention of the name she bears—she , the last of the real members of that group which , as a poetical picture , must live for ever in the ' Cotter's Saturday Night' —in short , the ' Sister of Burns '—to think of all this , I say , is more than I can suppose the public patiently enduring , burdened as it is . "
The Late Thomas William Coke,* Earl Of Leicester,
THE LATE THOMAS WILLIAM COKE , * EARL OF LEICESTER ,
PROVINCIAL GRAND MASTER OF NORFOLK . Oua amiable and illustrious Brother was born in 1753 , his paternal name being Robberts , which he changed to that of Coke on succeeding to the estates of his maternal uncle , Thomas Coke , Earl of Leicester , the founder of Holkham House , one of the most magnificent residences in the United Kingdom .
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The Annalist
occasion . More recently a monument was erected at Edinburgh , containing a statue of Burns from the chisel of Flaxman . In the words of Camphell , Farewell , High Chief of Scottish song ! Tliat eould ' st alternately impart Wisdom and rapture in thy page , And brand each vice with satire strong ; Whose lines are mottoes of the heart .
Whose truths electrify the sage : Fane-well , and ne ' er may envy dare To wring one baleful poison-drop From tlie crush'd laurels of thy bust ; But while tlie lark sings sweet in air . Still may the grateful pilgrim stop , To bless the spot that holds thy dust ' .
TIIE SISTER OP BURNS . From the grave of Burns we now turn to the cottage of his surviving sister . The following is an extract of a letter from Mr . Robert Chambers , of Edinburgh , to T . Carlyle , Esq , London : " A sister of Bums , the last survivor of his father ' s family , still lives . She is now a widow , at an advanced age , and resides at the village of Tranent
, in Haddingtonshire , with two unmarried daughters , who endeavour to support her by the exercise of their needles . In short , the sister of Burns has fallen , in the course of Providence , into poverty . One only alleviation of her fate has sprung from the fame of her brother , in the shape of the most trifling annual pittance from the Scottish Exchequer . "I am satisfied , from rigid inquiries , that Mrs . Begg and her two daughters are perfectly worthy persons . The public is , doubtless , much taxed ; but on the other band , some claims are sacred . The poems of Burns daily deli
give ght to thousands , and will continue to do so for ages . His productions wax yearly in public esteem , as time passes on , and brings no second Burns . The name of the Ayrshire bard has even been associated by some living writers with those of which England is proudest . While be soars so high , to think of one so near and dear to him as a sister sinking into penury—hearing from a cold inglecheek , the echoes of a nation's acclaim at every mention of the name she bears—she , the last of the real members of that group which , as a poetical picture , must live for ever in the ' Cotter's Saturday Night' —in short , the ' Sister of Burns '—to think of all this , I say , is more than I can suppose the public patiently enduring , burdened as it is . "
The Late Thomas William Coke,* Earl Of Leicester,
THE LATE THOMAS WILLIAM COKE , * EARL OF LEICESTER ,
PROVINCIAL GRAND MASTER OF NORFOLK . Oua amiable and illustrious Brother was born in 1753 , his paternal name being Robberts , which he changed to that of Coke on succeeding to the estates of his maternal uncle , Thomas Coke , Earl of Leicester , the founder of Holkham House , one of the most magnificent residences in the United Kingdom .