 | Robert Burns - English poetry - 1849 - 906 pages
...Hervey*» Meditations, had formed the whole of my reading. The collection of songs was my iwf/f ini'cum. I pored over them, driving my cart, or walking to labour, song by song, vers« by verse ; carefully noting the true tender, or sublime, from affectation and fustian. I am... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1852 - 792 pages
...Of this varied assortment, " the Collection of Songs," says the poet himself, " was my vade-tnecum. t, my sire, Ye've trusted ministration To chaps wha in a barn or byre Wad better fill their statio noticing the true tender and sublime, from affectation or fustian ; and 1 am convinced I owe to this... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1854 - 520 pages
...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...fustian. I am convinced I owe to this practice much of my critic-craft, such as it is. unaccountable antipathy against these meetings ; and my going was, -what... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1855 - 562 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...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 had... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1856 - 538 pages
...The collection of songs was my vadt 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 critic-craft, such as it ia. " In my seventeenth year, to give my manners a brush, I went to a country... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1856 - 728 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 labour,...the true, tender, or sublime, from affectation and fustian.0 I am convinced 1 owe to this practice much of my critic craft, such as it is. ' In my seventeenth... | |
 | George L. Craik - Self-culture - 1858 - 894 pages
...Works, and a collection of English songs. " The collection of songs," he adds, "was my wide mecum. I pored over them driving my cart, or walking to labour,...weeks to a village school, where he obtained some acqnaintance with the elements of geometry, and the practical sciences of mensuration, surveying, and... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - Self-culture - 1858 - 300 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 - 1859 - 284 pages
...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...this practice much of my critic craft, such as it is. u In my seventeenth year, to give mj manners a brush, I went to a country dancing-school. — My father... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1859 - 530 pages
...The collection of songs was my vade mecum. 1 poiecl 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 critic-craft, such as it is. toaccotftitable antipathy against these meetings ; and my going was, what... | |
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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... 
