Excerpt from Burns and His Times: As Gathered From His Poems The tenderness and the wrath, the love and the lust, the bright hope and the settled gloom, the high resolves and the base self indulgence, the good passions and the evil, that sweep by turns across his mobile features. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.