 | Robert Burns, Nathan Haskell Dole - English poetry - 1900 - 490 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 nutter of the gay. I shall never again he capable of entering into such scenes. Indeed, I am altogether... | |
 | Thomas Finlayson Henderson - Literary Criticism - 1904 - 246 pages
...passive hopelessness. In a letter to his father, 27th December, he lugubriously affirms that he "was not formed for the bustle of the busy nor the flutter of the gay " ; and, convinced that he would "never again be capable of entering into such scenes," he expresses... | |
 | Thomas Finlayson Henderson - Literary Criticism - 1904 - 250 pages
...passive hopelessness. In a letter to his father, 27th December, he lugubriously affirms that he "was not formed for the bustle of the busy nor the flutter of the gay " ; and, convinced that he would "never again be capable of entering into such scenes," he expresses... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - Poets, Scottish - 1905 - 412 pages
...temple ; and he that sitteth on the throne shall dwell among them. 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 nutter of the gay. I shall never again be capable of entering into such scenes. Indeed, I am altogether... | |
 | Robert Burns, Alexander Smith - Hymns - 1910 - 706 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 of the busy, nor the nutter of the gay. I shall never again be capable of entering into such scenes. Indeed, I am altogether... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1914 - 724 pages
...rtiich they inspire me for all that this world has to offer. As for this world, • despair of ever making a figure in it. I am not formed for the bustle of he busy, nor the flutter of the gay. I shall never again be capable of tiering into such scenes. Indeed,... | |
 | 1926 - 562 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...flutter of the Gay. I shall never again be capable of it. Indeed, I am altogether unconcern'd at the thoughts of it. I foresee that very probably Poverty... | |
 | Robert Burns - Poets, Scottish - 1928 - 220 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... | |
 | Jeffrey Skoblow - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 284 pages
...if not the place of hope—is another. 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 flutter of the Gay I shall never again be capable of it.—Indeed, I am altogether unconcern'd at the thoughts of it. I foresee that very probably Poverty... | |
 | James Buchan - History - 2009 - 468 pages
...failed to set up a flax-dressing business, the young Burns struck Harleian poses even for his father: 'I am not formed for the bustle of the busy nor the flutter of the Gay.'34 (One wonders what the guidman cottar made of this.) Yet it was these very sentimental postures... | |
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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 flutter of the gay. I shall never again be capable of entering into such scenes. 
