 | John Dawson Ross - 1898 - 190 pages
...THE BURNS ALMANAC. "Edinburgh, Dec. 7, 1786. " I am in a fair way of becoming as eminent as Thomas a Kempis or John Bunyan ; and you may expect henceforth...wonderful events in the Poor Robin's and Aberdeen Almanacks, along with the Black Monday and the Battle of Bothwell Bridge." — Burns to Gavin Hamilton.... | |
 | Robert Burns, Nathan Haskell Dole - English poetry - 1900 - 490 pages
...Gavin Hamilton, dated December 7, he wrote : " I am in a fair way of becoming as eminent as Thomas a Kempis or John Bunyan ; and you may expect henceforth...wonderful events, in the Poor Robin's and Aberdeen Almanacks, along with the Black Monday, and the Battle of Bothwell Bridge. My Lord Glencairn and the... | |
 | Robert Burns, Nathan Haskell Dole - English poetry - 1900 - 492 pages
...Gavin Hamilton, dated December 7, he wrote : " I am in a fair way of becoming as eminent as Thomas a Kempis or John Bunyan ; and you may expect henceforth...wonderful events, in the Poor Robin's and Aberdeen Almanacks, along with the Black Monday, and the Battle of Bothwell Bridge. My Lord Glencairn and the... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1901 - 444 pages
...Mr. Hamilton, he says, " For my own affairs, 1 am in a fair way of becoming as eminent as Thomas a Kempis, or John Bunyan ; and you may expect henceforth...birthday inserted among the wonderful events in the Poor Robin and Aberdeen Almanacks, along with Black Monday and the Battle of Bothwel. bridge." In any case,... | |
 | William Harvey - Chapbooks - 1903 - 164 pages
...becoming as eminent as Thomas a Kempis or John Bunyan,'' and that he might expect henceforth to see his " birthday inserted among the wonderful events in the Poor Robin's and Aberdeen Almanacs." "The Aberdeen Almanac (or Prognostication, as it was commonly called)," writes Dr. William Wallace,... | |
 | Robert Burns, Alexander Smith - Hymns - 1910 - 706 pages
...Mr. Hamilton, he says : " For my own affairs, I am in a fair way of becoming as eminent as Thomas a Kempis, or John Bunyan ; and you may expect henceforth...birthday inserted among the wonderful events in the Poor Robin and Aberdeen Almanacks, along with Black Monday and the battle of Bothwell Bridge." In any case,... | |
 | Henry Arthur Kellow - 1911 - 144 pages
...Hamilton got all the news : " For my own affairs, I am in a fair way of becoming as eminent as Thomas a Kempis or John Bunyan ; and you may expect henceforth...see my birthday inserted among the wonderful events. . . . My Lord Glencairn and the Dean of Faculty, Mr. H. Erskine, have taken me under their wing ; and... | |
 | Alfred H. Hyatt - Edinburgh (Scotland) - 1913 - 492 pages
...Hamilton, in these terms : ' For my own affairs, I am in a fair way of becoming as eminent as Thomas a Kempis or John Bunyan ; and you may expect, henceforth, to see my birthday inscribed among the wonderful events in The Poor Robin and Aberdeen Almanacks, along with the Black... | |
 | James Wideman Lee - Literary landmarks - 1920 - 326 pages
...Hamilton, in 1786, he says: "For my own affairs, I am in a fair way of becoming as eminent as Thomas a Kempis or John Bunyan; and you may expect henceforth to see my birthday inscribed among the wonderful events, in the Poor Robin and Aberdeen Almanacks, along with the Black... | |
 | John S. Gibson - Biography & Autobiography - 1993 - 172 pages
...his verse; and from his lodgings in Libberton's Wynd Robert Burns wrote in wonder: 'You may expect to see my birthday inserted among the wonderful events in the Poor Robin's and Aberdeen Almanacks, along with the Black Monday and the Battle of Bothwell Bridge. My Lord Glencairn and the... | |
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For my own affairs, I am in a fair way of becoming as eminent as Thomas a Kempis or John Bunyan ; and you may expect henceforth to see my birth-day inserted among the wonderful events, in the Poor Robin's and Aberdeen Almanacks, along with the Black Monday,... 
