 | Robert Burns - Scotland - 1826 - 272 pages
...fairer flowe It was in vain to think of doing any more good at school. The remaining week I staid, I did nothing but craze the faculties of my soul about her,...this modest and innocent girl had kept me guiltless. had seen human nature in a new phasis; and I engaged several of my school fellows to keep up a literary... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - Poets, Scottish - 1830 - 340 pages
...Kirkoswald. " It was in vain to think of doing any more good at school. The remaining week I staid, I did nothing but craze the faculties of my soul about her,...to meet her ; and the two last nights of my stay in this country, had sleep been a mortal sin, the image of this modest and innocent girl had kept me guiltless.... | |
 | Robert Burns - Scotland - 1831 - 484 pages
...flower* ' * " It was in vain to think of doing any more good at school. The remaining week I staid, I did nothing but craze the faculties of my soul about her,...me guiltless. " I returned home very considerably unproved. My reading was enlarged with the very important addition of Thomson's and Shenstone's Works... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1831 - 338 pages
...Kirkoswald's. " It was in vain to think of doing any more good at school. The remaining week I staid, I did nothing but craze the faculties of my soul about her, or steal out to meet her ; and the last two nights of my stay in the country, had sleep been a mortal sin, the image of this modest and... | |
 | 1835 - 842 pages
...(lower. " It was in vain to think of doing any more good at school The remaining weeks I staid I did nothing but craze the faculties of my soul about her,...this modest and innocent girl had kept me guiltless." This brings us to a period, which the poet calis an important era in his life — his twenty-third... | |
 | Robert Burns - Ballads, Scots - 1834 - 420 pages
...flower." It was in vain to think of doing any more good at school. The remaining week I staid, I did nothing but craze the faculties of my soul about her,...this modest and innocent girl had kept me guiltless." On his return home the harvest was commenced. To the fair lass of Kirkoswald he dedicated the first... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1835 - 440 pages
...Ho\ver." " It was in vain to think of doing any more good at school. The remaining week I staid, I did nothing but craze the faculties of my soul about her, or steal out to meet her ; and the last two nights of my stay in the country, had sleep been a mortal sin, the image of this modest and... | |
 | 1836 - 802 pages
...flower." It was in vain to think of doin^ any more good at school. The remaining weeks I staid I did nothing but craze the faculties of my soul about her, or steal out to meet her. And the two las! nights of my stay in the country, had sleep been a mortal sin, the image of this modest and innocent... | |
 | Robert Burns, John Gibson Lockhart - Scotland - 1837 - 628 pages
...(lower." " It was in vain to think of doing any more good at school. The remaining week I staid, I did nothing but craze the faculties of my soul about her,...stay in the country, had sleep been a mortal sin, the ¡mage of this modest and -innocent girl had kept me guiltless. I returned home very considerably improved.... | |
 | James Currie - 1838 - 92 pages
...' It was in vain to think of doing any more good at school. The remaining week I staid I did nothmg but craze the faculties of my soul about her, or steal...this modest and innocent girl had kept me guiltless. My life flowed on much in the same course till my twenty-third year. Vive /'amour, et vive la bagatelle,... | |
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It was in vain to think of doing any more good at school. The remaining week I staid I did nothing but craze the faculties of my soul about her, or steal out to meet her; and the two last nights of my stay in the country, had sleep been a mortal sin,... 
