 | Henry William Dulcken - 1880 - 858 pages
...noting the true, tender, or sublime from affectation and fustian. " I am convinced," he says, •• I owe to this practice much of my critic craft, such as it is." In his seventeenth year he began to attend a country dancing school, and his doing so was in direct opposition... | |
 | Robert Burns - Poets, Scottish - 1881 - 700 pages
...sublime, from affeetation and fustian. I am eonvineed I owe to this praotiee mueh of my eritie eraft, sueh as it is. In my seventeenth year, to give my manners a brush, I went to a eountry daneing-sehool. My father had an unaeeountable antipathy against these meetings, and my going... | |
 | Joseph Johnson - Success - 1883 - 426 pages
...or walking to labour, song by song, verse by verse, carefully noting the true, tender, and sublime, from affectation and fustian. I am convinced I owe...practice much of my critic craft, such as it is." In the pursuit and desire for development, the mind must be a primary subject of consideration. A knowledge... | |
 | Biography - 1883 - 778 pages
...or walking to labour, song by song, verse by verse ; carefully noting the true, tender, or sublime, from affectation and fustian. I am convinced I owe to this practice much of my critic-craft, such as it is ! " And he could not have learnt it in a better way. There are few countries... | |
 | John Stuart Blackie - 1888 - 250 pages
...song, verse by verse : carefully noting the true, tender, or sublime, from affectation-afflHuatian. I am convinced I owe to this practice much of my critic craft, such as it is." 1 Young Burns, in addition to what stores the cottage library or the kindness of intelligent neighbours... | |
 | Robert Burns - Scotland - 1887 - 730 pages
...song by song, verse by I verse ; carefully noting the true, tender, or sublime, from affectation and j fustian. I am convinced I owe to this practice much of my critic-craft, j such as it is. In my seventeenth year, to give my manners a brush, I went to a country... | |
 | Charles Rogers - 1891 - 412 pages
...labour, song by song, verse by verse, carefully noting the true, tender, or sublime from affectation or fustian. I am convinced I owe to this practice much of my critic-craft, such as it is." CHAPTER III. FROM 1777-1781i. AGE, 18-25. TARBOLTON, KIRKOSWALD, IRVINE.... | |
 | Robert Burns, Nathan Haskell Dole - Scotland - 1892 - 322 pages
...carefully noting the true, tender, or sublime, from affectation and fustian. I am convinced," he adds, "I owe to this practice much of my critic craft, such as it is." After Mr. Murdoch, who was, unfortunately, addicted to the use of ardent spirits, left Mr. Oliphant... | |
 | Education - 1893 - 578 pages
...rest or walking to labor, song by song, verse by verse, carefully noting the true, tender, and sublime from affectation and fustian'. I am convinced I owe...this practice much of my critic craft, such as it is !" Charles Lamb was one of the many admirers of Isaac Walton's "Compleat Angler," and none has paid... | |
 | 1893 - 882 pages
...or walking to labour, song by song, verse by verse, carefully noting the true, tender, and sublime from affectation and fustian. I am convinced I owe...this practice much of my critic craft, such as it is ! " Charles Lamb was one of the many admirers of Isaac Walton's " Compleat Angler," and none have paid... | |
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Meditations, had formed the whole of my reading. The collection of songs was my vade mecum. I pored over them driving my cart, or walking to labour, song by song, verse by verse ; carefully noting the true tender, or sublime, from affectation and fustian.... 
