 | Literature - 1907 - 854 pages
...Hamilton from Edinburgh in his year of glory in 178(5-7, "of becoming as eminent as Thomas .'* Kempls or John Bunyan; and you may expect henceforth to see my birthday lns»rted uuioug the wonderful events in the Poor Uoblu's and Aberdeen Almanacks, along with the Black... | |
 | John Dawson Ross - 1898 - 190 pages
...NEW YORK : THE RAEBURN BOOK COMPANY, 185 GRAND STREKT. 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 to see my birthday inserted among the wonderful... | |
 | Heinrich Molenaar - Comparative literature - 1899 - 152 pages
...Thomas a Kempis (1380—1471). An Hamilton schreibt Burns 7. 12. 86 (IV. 173): "For my own affairs, I am in a fair way of becoming as eminent as Thomas à Kempis or John Bunyan." Der in Strophe 2 von "The Kirk's Alarm" (II. 236) angeredete Doctor Mac... | |
 | Robert Burns, Nathan Haskell Dole - English poetry - 1900 - 490 pages
...Hunt, a society of the Scottish nobility. In a letter to 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 to see my birthday inserted among the wonderful... | |
 | Robert Burns, Nathan Haskell Dole - English poetry - 1900 - 492 pages
...Hunt, a society of the Scottish nobility. In a letter to 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 to see my birthday inserted among the wonderful... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | George Henderson (writer on Bothwell.), J. Jeffrey Waddell - Archaeology - 1904 - 282 pages
...just." — SENECA. IN a letter to Gavin Hamilton, Mauchline, Burns wrote : — " 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 my birthday inserted among the wonderful events in ' Poor... | |
 | Robert Burns, Alexander Smith - Hymns - 1910 - 706 pages
...you with it ; but after all my diligence I could make it no sooner nor better. 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 inserted among the wonderful... | |
 | Henry Arthur Kellow - 1911 - 144 pages
...arrival — on December 7, to be precise — Gavin 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 to see my birthday inserted among the wonderful... | |
 | Alfred H. Hyatt - Edinburgh (Scotland) - 1913 - 492 pages
...we find him writing to his earliest patron, Gavin 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... | |
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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,... 
