| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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.... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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.... | |
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