 | Thomas Carlyle - 1903 - 168 pages
...know him : but I had very little acquaintance with any literary people, and still less with the gentry of the west country, the two sets that he most frequented....Mr. Thomas Grierson was at that time a clerk of my 5 father's. He knew Burns, and promised to ask him to his lodgings to dinner ; but had no opportunity... | |
 | 1896 - 728 pages
...know him : but I had very little acquaintance with any literary people, and still less with the gentry of the west country, the two sets that he most frequented....I saw him one day at the late venerable Professor Ferguson's,2 where there were several gentlemen of literary reputation, among whom I remember the celebrated... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - Authors, Scottish - 1907 - 176 pages
...know him : but I had very little acquaintance with any literary people, and still less with the gentry of the west country, the two sets that he most frequented....I saw him one day at the late venerable Professor Ferguson's, where there were several gentlemen of literary reputation, among whom I remembered the... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - Clothing and dress - 1908 - 352 pages
...know him : but I had very little acquaintance with any literary people, and still less with the gentry of the west country, the two sets that he most frequented....I saw him one day at the late venerable Professor Ferguson's, where there were several gentlemen of literary reputation, among whom I remember the celebrated... | |
 | John Alexander Joyce - Poets, Scottish - 1910 - 156 pages
...know him; but I had very little acquaintance with any literary people, and still less with the gentry of the west country, the two sets that he most frequented....I saw him one day at the late venerable Professor Ferguson's, where there were several gentlemen of literary reputation, among whom I remembered the... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - Poets, English - 1910 - 148 pages
...know him: but I had very little acquaintance with any literary people, and still less with the gentry of the west country, the two sets that he most frequented....I saw him one day at the late venerable Professor Ferguson's,2 where there were several gentlemen of literary reputation, among whom I remember the celebrated... | |
 | Charles Wells Moulton - American literature - 1910 - 812 pages
...know him ; but I had very little acquaintance with any literary people, and still less with the gentry of the west country, the two sets that he most frequented....I might have seen more of this distinguished man. . . . His person was strong and robust : his manners rustic, not clownish ; a sort of dignified plainness... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - Poets, Scottish - 1912 - 154 pages
...him; but I had very little acquaintance with any literary people, and still 10 less with the gentry of the west country, the two sets that he most frequented....seen more of this distinguished man. As it was, I saw 15 him one day at the late venerable Professor Ferguson's, where there were several gentlemen of literary... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1910 - 250 pages
...had very little acquaintance with any literary people, and still less with the gentry of the west 10 country ; the two sets that he most frequented. Mr....keep his word ; otherwise I might have seen more of 15 this distinguished man. As it was, I saw him one day at the late venerable Professor Ferguson's,... | |
 | WILLARD C. GORE - 1915 - 390 pages
...had very little acquaintance with any literary people, and still less with the gentry of the west 10 country ; the two sets that he most frequented. Mr....keep his word ; otherwise I might have seen more of 15 this distinguished man. As it was, I saw him one day at the late venerable Professor Ferguson's,... | |
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I was a lad of fifteen in 1786-7, when he came first to Edinburgh, but had sense and feeling enough to be much interested in his poetry, and would have given the world to know him : but I had very little acquaintance with any literary people, and still... 
