 | 1882 - 780 pages
...whioh Burns says, " This was my vademécum. I poured over them driving my cart, or walking to labor, song by song, verse by verse ; carefully noting the true, tender, or sublime, from affect ition and fustian. I am convinced I ove to this practice much of my critic-craft, such as it... | |
 | Biography - 1883 - 778 pages
...reading. Above all there was a collection of songs, of which Burns says, " This was my vade mecurn. I pored over them driving my cart, or walking to labour,...fustian. I am convinced I owe to this practice much of my critic-craft, such as it is ! " And he could not have learnt it in a better way. There are few countries... | |
 | Thomas Sergeant Perry - Literary Criticism - 1883 - 490 pages
...Select Collection of English Songs.'" This may have been the book he refers to as "my vadc mecum." "I pored over them driving my cart, or walking to...true, tender, or sublime from affectation and fustian " (letter to Dr. Moore, Aug. 2,1787). f Vide Watson's Collection, pt. ip 82, "The Life and Death of... | |
 | Thomas Sergeant Perry - Literary Criticism - 1883 - 500 pages
...'Select Collection of English Songs.'" This may have been the book he refers to as " my vadc mecum." " I pored over them driving my cart, or walking to labour,...true, tender, or sublime from affectation and fustian" (letter to Dr. Moore, Aug. 2, 1787). \ Vide Watson's Collection, pt. ip 32, " The Life and Death of... | |
 | Joseph Johnson - Success - 1883 - 426 pages
...not willingly let die." A collection of songs which he possessed, he tells us, he pored over " while driving my cart or walking to labour, song by song,...verse by verse, carefully noting the true, tender, and sublime, from affectation and fustian. I am convinced I owe to this practice much of my critic... | |
 | Esther J. Trimble Lippincott - American literature - 1884 - 536 pages
...ascribed the waking of his own muse. "These," said he, " I pored over driving my cart or walking to labor, song by song, verse by verse, carefully noting the...'tender or sublime, from affectation and fustian." occasion, "some one entering the house at meal-time found the whole family seated each with a spoon... | |
 | Maude Gillette Phillips - English literature - 1885 - 648 pages
...of songs he 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...tender, or sublime from affectation and fustian." Thus were his poetic talents, though still dormant, nourished, till at last he fell in love and suddenly... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - English literature - 1899 - 822 pages
...verse by verse ; carefully noticing the true, tender, or sublime, from affectation or fustian ; and I am convinced I owe to this practice much of my critic craft, such as it is." A consciousness of his strength began to dawn upon him and to fill his mind with a great ambition.... | |
 | William Harvey - Stirlingshire (Scotland) - 1899 - 180 pages
...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. I am convinced I owe much to this for my critic-craft, such as it is. In my seventeenth year, to give my manners a brush,... | |
 | Robert Burns, Nathan Haskell Dole - English poetry - 1900 - 492 pages
...collection of songs, he says, was his vnde mecum : " I pored over them driving my cart, or walking to labor, song by song, verse by verse : carefully noting the...sublime, from affectation and fustian. I am convinced," he adds, " I owe to this practice much of my critic craft, such as it is." After Mr. Murdoch, who was,... | |
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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... 
