...of another school, than to create an image from the impulse of his own feeling. Robert Burns said, that the muse of his country found him as Elijah did...the plough, and threw her inspiring mantle over him ; and the same may be said of Chantrey : it was in a secluded place, a nameless spot, into which art...

...allusion, not profanely intended, that the " poetic genius of his country found him, as the prophet-bard Elijah did Elisha, at the plough, and threw her inspiring mantle over him. She bade him sing the loves, the joys, the rural scenes, and rural pleasures of his native soil, in...

...around him. Mr. Chantrey was a child of poverty, and it has been said of him as Burns said of himself, that the muse of his country found him as Elijah did Elisha, at the plough. He has executed several beautiful groups, but in general his busts are said to be the best of all his...

...noblemen and gentry of Scotland. He said, " The poetic Genius of my country found me as the prophetic bard Elijah did Elisha, at the plough, and threw her inspiring mantle over me. She bade me sing the loves, the joys, the rural scenes and rural pleasures of my natal soil in...

...country found me," savs he, in his preface to the Edinburgh edition of his poems, " as the prophetic bard Elijah did Elisha, at the plough, and threw her inspiring mantle over me." In accordance with this baptismal rite of consecration, he devoted his genius to the task of singing...

...of another school, than to create an image from the impulse of his own feeling. Robert Burns said, that the muse of his country found him as Elijah did...the plough, and threw her inspiring mantle over him ; and the same may be said of Chantrey : it was in a secluded place, a nameless spot, into which art...

...regal dignity, an object of admiration, rather than of affection in his exalted sphere. Burns said that the muse of his country found him as Elijah did Elisha at the plough, and threw her mantle of inspiration over him. If, obedient to the mandate of his mistress, the poet abandoned the...

...his regal dignity, an object of admiration, rather than of affection in his exalted sphere. Hums said that the muse of his country found him as Elijah did Elisha at 1/ie ¡i/uvg/t. and threw, her mantle of inspiration over him. If, obedient to the mandate of his mistress,...

...inherit the virtues of their Ancestors? The Poetic Genius of my Country found me, as the prophetic hard Elijah did Elisha — at the plough ; and threw her inspiring mantle over me. She hade me sing the loves, the joys, the rural scenes and rural pleasures of my native soil, in...

...the gentlemen of Caledonian Hunt: "The poetic genius of my country found me, as the prophetic bard, Elijah, did Elisha, at the plough, and threw her inspiring mantle over me." He died on the 21st of July, 1796, at the age of thirty-seven. Nobles sleep near him in unregarded...