 | 1895 - 460 pages
...a book in the other. Above all, they had a collection of songs, of which Burns says, " This 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... | |
 | Robert Burns - Scotland - 1896 - 462 pages
...songs, and Hervey's meditations had been the extent of my reading.— The Collection of Songs was my va.de mecum. I pored over them, driving my cart or walking to labor, song by song, verse by verse ; carefully noting the true tender or sublime from affectation... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1897 - 282 pages
...fields; he wore out thus two copies of Mackenzie's Man of Feeling. "The collection of songs was my node mecum. I pored over them driving my cart, or walking to labour, song by song, verse by verse, carefully noting the true, tender, sublime, or fustian." He maintained... | |
 | 1899 - 666 pages
...staple of their reading. Above all there was a collection of songs, of which Burns says, " This 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.... | |
 | Robert Burns, Nathan Haskell Dole - English poetry - 1900 - 490 pages
...a few other books, formed the whole of his early reading. The collection of songs, he says, was his vade mecum : " I pored over them driving my cart, or walking to labor, song by song, verse by verse : carefully noting the true, tender, or sublime, from affectation... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1903 - 168 pages
...Bible, Shakespeare, and above all a select collection of English songs. " 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... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1903 - 174 pages
...Bible, Shakespeare, and above all a select collection of English songs. " The collection of songs was my vade mecum. I pored over them, driving my cart, or walking to labor, song by song, verse by verse ; carefully noting the true, tender, or sublime, from affectation... | |
 | Thomas Finlayson Henderson - Literary Criticism - 1904 - 246 pages
...Songs [The Lark, 1746 and 1765, a small volume which he could carry in his pocket] "was," he says, "my -vade mecum. I pored over them driving my cart, or walking to labour, song by song, verse by verse, carefully noting the tender or sublime from affectation or fustian."... | |
 | Thomas Finlayson Henderson - Literary Criticism - 1904 - 250 pages
...Songs [The Lark, 1746 and 1765, a small volume which he could carry in his pocket] "was," he says, "my vade mecum. I pored over them driving my cart, or walking to labour, song by song, verse by verse, carefully noting the tender or sublime from affectation or fustian."... | |
 | Julian Hill - English poetry - 1907 - 378 pages
...Songs, and 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, song by song, verse by verse ; carefully noting the true, tender, or sublime, from affectation and... | |
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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... 
