Hidden fields
Books Books
" The collection of Songs was my vade mecum. I pored over them, driving my cart, or walking to labour, song by song, verse by verse ; carefully noting the true tender, or sublime, from affectation and fustian. I am convinced I owe to this practice much... "
The pursuit of knowledge under difficulties [by G.L. Craik]. - Page 380
by George Lillie Craik - 1830 - 3 pages
Full view - About this book

The Poetical Works, Volume 1

Robert Burns - 1863 - 368 pages
...Ramsay, and a collection of songs which constituted his vade-mecum. " I pored over them," says he, "driving my cart or walking to labour, song by song, verse by verse, carefully noticing the true tender or sublime from affectation and fustian." So early did he evince his attachment...
Full view - About this book

The Poetical Works of Robert Burns: With a Sketch of the Author's Life, Volume 1

Robert Burns - 1864 - 380 pages
...Ramsay, and a collection of Bongs which constituted his vade-mecum. " I pored over them," says he, " driving my cart or walking to labour, song by song, verse by verse, carefully noticing the true tender or sublime from affectation and fustian." So early did he evince his attachment...
Full view - About this book

The pursuit of knowledge under difficulties [by G.L. Craik]. Continuation

George Lillie Craik - 1865 - 594 pages
...Works, and a collection of English songs. " The collection of songs," he adds, " was my vade mecum. I pored over them driving my cart, or walking to labour,...practice much of my critic craft, such as it is." He afterwards went for a few weeks to a village school, where he obtained some acquaintance with the...
Full view - About this book

Histoire de la littérature anglaise, Volume 4

Taine - 1866 - 500 pages
...1. My gicat constituent clements are pnde and passion. 2. The collection of songs was my vade-mccum. I pored over them driving my cart, or walking to labour, song hy song , avec plusieurs de ses camarades de classe pour se former le style, tenait un journal, y jetait...
Full view - About this book

Poems, Songs, and Letters: Being the Complete Works of Robert Burns, Edited ...

Robert Burns, Alexander Smith - 1868 - 688 pages
...Hervey's Meditations, had formed the whole of my reading. The collection of songs was my vade mecum. I pored over them, driving my cart, or walking to...fustian. I am convinced I owe to this practice much of my critie/craft, such as it is. j In my seventeenth year, to give my manners a brush, I went to a country...
Full view - About this book

The poetical works [and correspondence] of Robert Burns, Issue 36

Robert Burns - 1868 - 312 pages
...collection of songs was my vade mecum. I pored over them tlrivinginy cart, or walking to labour, sting by song, verse by verse, carefully noting the true...sublime, from affectation and fustian. I am convinced 1 owe to this practice much of my critic craft, such as It is, " In my seventeenth year, to give my...
Full view - About this book

The Complete Poetical Works of Robert Burns

Robert Burns, James Currie - 1869 - 624 pages
...The collection of songs was my iiade mecum. I pored over them driving my cart, or walking to labor, song by song, verse by verse ; carefully noting the...convinced I owe to this practice much of my critic craft, fiuch as it is. " In my seventeenth year, to give my manners a brush, I went to a country dancing-school....
Full view - About this book

The poetical works of Robert Burns, Issue 351

Robert Burns - 1870 - 652 pages
...'Hervey's Meditations,' had formed the whole of my reading. The collection of songs was my vade mecum. I pored over them driving my cart, or walking to labour,...this practice much of my critic craft, such as it is. " In my seventeenth year, to give my manners a brush, I went to a country dancing-school. My father...
Full view - About this book

The Complete Poetical Works of Robert Burns

Robert Burns, James Currie - 1870 - 642 pages
...The collection of songs was my \iade mecum, I pored over them driving my cart, or walking to labor, song by song, verse by verse ; carefully noting the...this practice much of my critic craft, such as it is. " In my seventeenth year, to give my mauners a brush, I went to a country dancing-school. — My father...
Full view - About this book

The Complete Poetical Works of Robert Burns,: Arranged in the ..., Volume 1

Robert Burns - 1871 - 516 pages
...threatening letters which used to set us all in tears. " A collection of English songs was my eade mecum. I pored over them driving my cart, or walking to labour...true, tender, or sublime, from affectation and fustian ; and I am convinced I owe to this practice much of my critic-craft, such as it is." — Autobiography....
Full view - About this book




  1. My library
  2. Help
  3. Advanced Book Search
  4. Download EPUB
  5. Download PDF