 I shall never again be capable of entering into such scenes. Indeed, I am altogether unconcerned at the thoughts of this life. I foresee that poverty and obscurity probably await me, and I am in some measure prepared, and daily preparing to meet them....  The Saturday Magazine - Page 1031833Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Tyler - 1848 - 238 pages
...time and paper to return you my grateful thanks for the lessons of virtue and piety you have siven me, which were too much neglected at the time of giving...them, but which I hope have been remembered ere it is too late. Present my dutiful respects to my mother, and my compliments to Mr. and Mrs. Muir; and with... | |
 | Robert Burns - English poetry - 1849 - 906 pages
...daily preparing, to meet them. I have but just time and paper to return you my grateful thanks fo~ the lessons of virtue and piety you have given me,...hope have been remembered ere it is yet too late. Present my dutiful respects to my mother, and my compliments to Mr. and Mrs. Muir ; and, with wishing... | |
 | English essays - 1852 - 782 pages
...some measure prepared, and daily preparing to meet them. I have bul just lime and paper to return to you my grateful thanks for the lessons of virtue and...hope, have been remembered ere it is yet too late." — Vol. i. pp. 99 — 101. Before proceeding to take any particular notice of his poetical compositions,... | |
 | English essays - 1852 - 782 pages
...some measure prepared, and daily preparing to meet them. I have but just time and paper to return to you my grateful thanks for the lessons of virtue and...which, I hope, have been remembered ere it is yet too late."—Vol. i. pp. 99—101. Before proceeding to take any particular notice of his poetical compositions,... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1854 - 780 pages
...some measure prepared, and daily preparing to meet them. I have but just time and paper to return to you my grateful thanks for the lessons of virtue and...hope, have been remembered ere it is yet too late." — Vol. i. pp. 99 — 101. Before proceeding to take any particular notice of his poetical compositions,... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1855 - 562 pages
...unconcerned at the thoughts of this life. I foresee that poverty and obscurity probably await me, and 1 am in some measure prepared, and daily preparing to...hope have been remembered ere it is yet too late. Present my dutiful respects to my mother, and my compliGENERAL CORRESPONDENCE ments to Mr. and Mrs.... | |
 | Robert Burns, Allan Cunningham - 1855 - 616 pages
...have but just time and paper to return you my grateful thanks for the lessons of virtue and piety yon have given me, which were too much neglected at the...hope, have been remembered ere it is yet too late. Present my dutiful respects to my mother, and my compliments to Mr. and Mrs. Muir ; and with wishing... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1856 - 728 pages
...unconcerned at the thoughts of this life. I foresee that poverty and obscurity probably await me : I am in some measure prepared, and daily preparing...hope, have been remembered ere it is yet too late. Present my dutiful respects to my mother, and my compliments to Mr and Mrs Muir; and with wishing you... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - English essays - 1856 - 794 pages
...lhanks for the lessons of virtue and piety you have given me ; which were too much neglected at the lime of giving them, but which, I hope, have been remembered ere it is yet too late." — Vol. i. pp. 99 — 101. Before proceeding to take any particular notice of nis poetical compositions,... | |
 | James White - Authors, Scottish - 1858 - 316 pages
...return you my grateful thanks for the lessons of virtue and piety you have given me, which were but too much neglected at the time of giving them, but...hope, have been remembered ere it is yet too late. This letter owes its desponding tone to the fits of mental depression to which the poetic temperament... | |
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