 | Robert Burns - Ballads, Scots - 1834 - 420 pages
...found in the songs of his native land. — " The collection of songs," he says, " 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." The songs of Scotland had, in no remote day, the advantages of the schooling which in these early hours... | |
 | Robert Burns, Allan Cunningham - Ballads, Scots - 1834 - 368 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 critic-craft, such as it is. In my seventeenth year, to give my manners a brash, I went to a country... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1834 - 360 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 critic-craft, such as it is. In my seventeenth year, to give my manners a brush, I went to a country... | |
 | Robert Burns - Poetry, Modern - 1834 - 206 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...song by song, verse by verse; carefully noting the <:-ue tender, or sublime, from affectation and fustian. I am convinced I owe to this practice much... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1835 - 440 pages
...Hervey's Meditations, bid 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 : carelolly noting the true tender, or sublime, from affectation and fustian. I am convinced I owe... | |
 | Fraternal organizations - 1837 - 474 pages
...He continues in the same letter, " a collection of songs was my vade mecum, I pored over them drivmg my cart, or walking to labour, song by song, verse...practice, much of my critic craft, such as it is." Burns continued with his father, working on the farm, till he was near twentythree, when he entered... | |
 | Robert Burns, John Gibson Lockhart - Scotland - 1837 - 628 pages
...Hcrvcy's Jlífxliíations, had formed the whole of my reading. The collection of songs was my cade mecum. I pored over them, driving my cart, or walking to labour, song by song, verse by vcr-c ; carefully noting the true tender, or sublime, from affectation and fustian. I am Convinced... | |
 | James Currie - 1838 - 92 pages
...Hervey's Meditations, had formed the whole of my reading. The collet-lion of songs was my vade mecum. I pored over them driving my cart, or walking to labour, song by fioug, verse by verse—carefully noting the true tender HI- Mil>lime, from affectation and fustian.... | |
 | Self-culture - 1840 - 298 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 afterward went for a few weeks to a village school, where he obtained some acquaintance with the elements... | |
 | Robert Burns, James Currie - 1844 - 706 pages
...Hervey's Meditations, had formed the whole of my reading. The collection of songs was my eade 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... | |
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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... 
