 I had seen human nature in a new phasis; and I engaged several of my school-fellows to keep up a literary correspondence with me. This improved me in composition. I had met with a collection of letters by the wits of Queen Anne's reign, and I pored over...  The Works of Robert Burns - Page 30by Robert Burns - 1841Full view - About this book
 | Robert Burns - 1800 - 424 pages
...in composition. I had " met with a collection of letters by the wits of " Queen Anne's reign, and I pored over them most " devoutly. I kept copies of any of my own let" ters that pleased me, and a comparison between " them and the composition of most of my cor" respondents,... | |
 | David Irving - 1804 - 524 pages
...me in composition. I had met with a collection of letters by the wits of Queen Anne's reign, and I pored over them most devoutly. I kept copies of any...I carried this whim so far, that though I had not three farthings worth of business in the world, yet almost every post brought me as many letters as... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1806 - 422 pages
...me in composition. I had met with a collection of letters by the wits of Queen Anne's reign, and I pored over them most devoutly: I kept copies of any...I carried this whim so far, that though I had not three farthings' worth of business in the world, yet almost every post brought me as many letters as... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1816 - 714 pages
...composition. 1 had met with a collection of letters by the wits of Queen Anne's reign, and I pored over thorn most devoutly. I kept copies of any of" my own letters...I carried this whim so far, that though I had not three farthings worth of business in the world, yet almost every post brought me as many letters as... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1819 - 388 pages
...me in composition. I had met with a collection of letters by the wits of Queen Anne's reign, and I pored over them most devoutly ; I kept copies of any...I carried this whim so far, that though I had not three farthings' worth of business in the world, yet almost every post brought me as many letters as... | |
 | 1819 - 364 pages
...me in composition. I had met with a collection of letters by the wits of Queen Anne's reign, and I pored over them most devoutly ; I kept copies of any...I carried this whim so far, that though I had not three farthings' worth of business in the world, yet almost every post brought me as many letters as... | |
 | 1824 - 312 pages
...kept co-' pies of my own letters that pleased me, and a comparison betweenthem and the compositions of most of my correspondents, flattered my vanity. I carried this whim so far, that though I had not three: farthings' worth of business in the world, yet almost every post brought me as many letters... | |
 | Constable and co, ltd - 1826 - 734 pages
...me in composition. I had met with a collection of letters by the wits of Queen Anne's reign, and I pored over them most devoutly ; I kept copies of any...I carried this whim so far, that though I had not three farthings worth of business in the world, yet almost every post brought me as many letters as... | |
 | Robert Burns, Alfred Howard - 1826 - 226 pages
...me in composition. I had met with a collection of letters by the wits of Queen Anne's reign, and I pored over them most devoutly; I kept copies of any...comparison between them and the composition of most of my cor. respondents flattered my vanity. I carried this whii". so far, that though I had not three-farthings... | |
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