| University magazine - 1853 - 812 pages
...flower." It was in vain to think of doing any more good at school. The remaining week I Btayed, 1 did nothing but craze the faculties of my soul about her,...image of this modest and innocent girl had kept me guiltlcsa.' " — Vol. ip 31, 32. We have au account of Burns's life till his twenty-third year, in... | |
| William Russell - Academic achievement - 1853 - 326 pages
...was vain," he says, " to think of doing any more good at school. The remaining week I stayed, I did nothing but craze the faculties of my soul about her,...out to meet her, and the two last nights of my stay ill the country, had sleep been a mortal sin, the image of this modest and innocent girl had kept me... | |
| 1853 - 820 pages
...flower.'1 It was in vain to think of doing any more good at school. The remaining week I stayed, I did nothing but craze the faculties of my soul about her, or steal out to meet lier ; and the two last nights of my stay in the country, had sleep been a mortal sin, the image of... | |
| Robert Burns, Allan Cunningham - 1855 - 616 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,...with the very important addition of Thomson's and Sheustoiie's Works. I had seen human nature in a new phasis ; and I engaged several of my school-fellows... | |
| Robert Burns - 1856 - 728 pages
...flower " It was in vain to think of doing any more good at school. The remaining week I stayed, I did nothing but craze the faculties of my soul about her,...this modest and innocent girl had kept me guiltless.' The scene of this adventure was Kirkoswald, in Carrick. If the poet be right in speaking of his nineteenth... | |
| Robert Burns - English letters - 1859 - 738 pages
...any more good at school. The remaining week I stayed, I did nothing but craze the faculties of ray soul about her, or steal out to meet her ; and the...stay in the country, had sleep been a mortal sin, the imnge of this mode.it and innocent girl had kept me guiltless. Shenstone's works. I had seen human... | |
| William Russell (LL. D.) - Ability - 1862 - 350 pages
...The remaining week I stayed, I did nothing but craze the faculties of my soul about her, or BURNS. steal out to meet her, and the two last nights of...this modest and innocent girl had kept me guiltless." Fortunately he brought away from the shores of Clyde more durable impressions than Margaret Thomson's... | |
| Children's literature - 1865 - 1136 pages
...more good at school. The remaining week I stayed, I did nothing but craze the faculties of mv soid about her, or steal out to meet her, and the two last...this modest and innocent girl had kept me guiltless." Fortunately he brought away from the snores of Clyde more durable impressions than Margaret Thompson's... | |
| Robert Burns - 1868 - 326 pages
...flower.' ---- It was in vain to think of doing nny 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... | |
| Robert Burns, James Currie - Scotland - 1870 - 642 pages
...good at school. The remaining week I staid, I did nothing but craze the faculties of my sonl abont her, or steal out to meet her ; and the two last nights...important addition of Thomson's and Shenstone's Works ; I hud seen human nature in a new phasis ; and I engaged several of my schoolfellows to keep up a literary... | |
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