| Robert Burns - Scotland - 1887 - 730 pages
...with which they inspire me for all that this world has to offer. As for this world, I despair of ever making a figure in it. I am not formed for the bustle...that poverty and obscurity probably await me, and 1 am in some measure prepared, and daily preparing to meet them. I have but just time and paper to... | |
| Charles Rogers - 1891 - 412 pages
...with which they inspire me for all that this world has to offer. As for this world, I despair of ever making a figure in it. I am not formed for the bustle...shall never again be capable of entering into such 1 15. Therefore are they before the throne of God, and serve him day and night in his temple ; and... | |
| James Craig Higgins - Poets, Scottish - 1893 - 252 pages
...with which they inspire me for all that this world has to offer. As for this world, I despair of ever making a figure in it. I am not formed for the bustle...foresee that poverty and obscurity probably await me: I am in some measure prepared, and daily preparing to meet them. I have but just time and paper to... | |
| 1895 - 698 pages
...forebodings at a much earlier date. In a letter written to his father, William Burness, in 1781, he says: "I am altogether unconcerned at the thoughts of this...measure prepared, and daily preparing, to meet them." A truly remarkable reflection for a young man who had not yet attained his twenty-second year — a... | |
| Robert Burns - Scotland - 1895 - 512 pages
...body at the least anxiety and alarm. He despairs of making a figure in the world ; " being neither formed for the bustle of the busy, nor the flutter of the gay;" and when he "glimmered" a little into the future, the only prospect was poverty and contempt. In the... | |
| Robert Burns - 1896 - 520 pages
...with which they inspire me for all that this world has to offer.* As for this world, I despair of ever making a figure in it. I am not formed for the bustle...that poverty and obscurity probably await me, and I 6m in some measure prepared, and daily preparing, to meet thc-in. I have but just time and paper to... | |
| Henry Mackenzie - Scotland in literature - 1900 - 332 pages
...with which they inspire me for all that this world has to offer. As for this world, I despair of ever making a figure in it. I am not formed for the bustle...into such scenes. Indeed, I am altogether unconcerned for the thoughts of this life. I foresee that poverty and obscurity probably await me; and I am in... | |
| Henry Mackenzie - Scotland in literature - 1900 - 340 pages
...shall never again be capable of entering into such scenes. Indeed, I am altogether unconcerned for the thoughts of this life. I foresee that poverty...me ; and I am in some measure prepared, and daily J%. preparing, to meet them. I have but just time and paper to return to you my grateful thanks for... | |
| Henry Mackenzie - Scotland in literature - 1900 - 334 pages
...I despair of ever making a figure in it. I am not formed for the bustle of the busy, nor the nutter of the gay. I shall never again be capable of entering...into such scenes. Indeed, I am altogether unconcerned for the thoughts of this life. I foresee that poverty and obscurity probably await me; and I am in... | |
| Robert Burns, Nathan Haskell Dole - English poetry - 1900 - 492 pages
...deceive myself, I could contentedly and gladly resign it. ... As for this world, I despair of ever making a figure in it. I am not formed for the bustle of the busy, nor the Sutler of the gay. I shall never again BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH. be capable of entering into such scenes.... | |
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