 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Biography - 1844 - 336 pages
...collection of songs," he adds, " was my vade mecum. I pored over them, driving my cart, or walking to labor, song by song, verse by verse, carefully noting the...practice much of my critic craft, such as it is." The songs of Scotland which are thus complimented, are doubtless among the richest of all those popular... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Indians - 1844 - 680 pages
...collection of songs," he adds, " was my vade mecum. I pored over them, driving my cart, or walking to labor, song by song, verse by verse, carefully noting the...practice much of my critic craft, such as it is." The songs of Scotland which are thus complimented, are doubtless among the richest of all those popular... | |
 | Literature - 1895 - 862 pages
...which Burns says, " This was my vade mecum. I pored over them driving my cart or walking to labor, song by song, verse by verse ; carefully noting the...fustian. I am convinced I owe to this practice much of my criticcraft, such as it is." The books which fed his young intellect were devoured only during intervals... | |
 | Robert Sears - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1844 - 514 pages
...treasures. This, he says, " was my vade-mecum. 1 pored over them, driving my cart or walking to labor, song by song, verse by verse, carefully noting the...tender, or sublime, from affectation and fustian." And under whah circumstances were these studies pursued ? " '['ho cheerless gliiniii rif a hermit,"... | |
 | 1845 - 440 pages
...ur walking to lahour, song hy song, verse hy verse : carefully noting the true tender, or suhlime, from affectation and fustian. I am convinced I owe...this practice much of my critic craft, such as it is. " In my seventeenth year, to give my manners a hrush, I went to a country dancingschool. — My father... | |
 | Languages, Modern - 1907 - 508 pages
...Aug., 1789. 5 To Mrs. Dunlop, 25 Dec. 17u3 (Ch. W., IV, 69). 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 tender, or sublime, from affectation and fustian. ' I have bought a pocket Milton, which I carry perpetually... | |
 | Robert Burns, James Currie - 1847 - 704 pages
...Hervey'* Meditations* bad formed the whole of my reading. The collection of songs waa my vade тесыт. I pored over them driving my cart, or walking to labour, song by song, тепе by verse ; carefully noting the true, tender, or sublime, from affectation and fustian. 1... | |
 | Samuel Tyler - 1848 - 222 pages
...reading. 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 or fustian. I am convinced I owe to this practice much of my critic craft, such as it is. " In my seventeenth... | |
 | Samuel Tyler - 1848 - 228 pages
...labor, song by song, verse by verse, carefully noting the true, tender, or sublime, from a.ffectation or fustian. I am convinced I owe to this practice much of my critic craft, snob, as it is. " In my seventeenth year, to give my manners a brush, I went to a country dancing-school.... | |
 | Languages, Modern - 1907 - 504 pages
...Edition 1786. 4 Letter to Miss Williams, Aug., 1789. The collection of songs was my vade mecum. I porcd over them, driving my cart, or walking to labour, song by song, verse by verse; carefully noting the tender, or sublime, from affectation and fustian. ' I have bought a pocket Milton, which I carry perpetually... | |
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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... 
