 | Kate Sanborn - English poetry - 1869 - 306 pages
...appreciated the worth of his rhymes, and believed in their success. • He said afterward to Moore : " I thought they had merit ; and it was a delicious...clever fellow, even though it should never reach my ears — a poor negro-driver, or perhaps a victim to that inhospitable clime, and gone to the world... | |
 | Robert Burns, James Currie - 1869 - 624 pages
...Rhymer's Welcome to his Dastard Child. before leaving my native country forever, I resolved to publish mj poems. I weighed my productions as impartially as...merit ; and it was a delicious idea that I should he called a clever fellow, even though it should never roach my ears — a poor negro-driver, — or... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1870 - 352 pages
...epoch is so memorable a one, that the Poet's own account of his feelings is deserving of attention : " Before leaving my native land, I resolved to publish...clever fellow, even though it should never reach my ears — a poor negro-driver — or, perhaps, a victim to that inhospitable dime, and gone to the world... | |
 | Robert Burns - Scottish literature - 1870 - 652 pages
...what little preparation was in my power for Jamaica. But before leaving my native country for ever, I resolved to publish my poems. I weighed my productions...clever fellow, even though it should never reach my ears — a poor negro driver, or perhaps a 1 At the time that our Poet took the resolution of becoming... | |
 | Robert Burns, James Currie - Scotland - 1870 - 642 pages
...resolved to publish my poeras. I weighed my produetions as impartially as was in my power ; I thonght they had merit ; and it was a delicious idea that I should be called a clever fellow, even thongh it shonld never reach my ears — a poor negro-driver, — or perhaps a victim to that inhospitable... | |
 | Scotland - 1872 - 798 pages
...mnch more than a year after, and in which a certain levity of tone scarcely veils the recent wounds, " that I should be called a clever fellow, even though it should never reach my cars." "It is just the last foolish action I intend to do," he writes in June 1786, to a friend with... | |
 | England - 1872 - 808 pages
...much more than a year after, and in which a certain levity- of tone scarcely veils the recent wounds, "that I should be called a clever fellow, even though it should never reach my ears." " It is just the last foolish action I intend to do," he writes in June 1786, to a friend with... | |
 | 1872 - 830 pages
...much more than a year after, and in which a certain levity of tone scarcely veils the recent wounds, " that I should be called a clever fellow, even though it should never reach my ears." " It is just the last foolish action I intend to do," he writes in June, 1786, to a friend with... | |
 | John Ross - English poetry - 1878 - 786 pages
...rustic companions. The story of the publication can never be told so well as in his own words : — " I weighed my productions as impartially as was in...clever fellow, even though it should never reach my ears — a poor negrodriver, or perhaps a victim to that inhospitable clime, and gone to the world... | |
 | Allan Cunningham, Charles Mackay - Poetry - 1879 - 628 pages
...what little preparation was in my power for Jamaica. But, before leaving my native country for ever, I resolved to publish my poems. I weighed my productions...clever fellow, even though it should never reach my ears — a poor negro-driver — or perhaps a victim to that inhospitable clime, and gone to the world... | |
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I resolved to publish my poems. I weighed my productions as impartially as was in my power; I thought they had merit; and it was a delicious idea that I should be called a clever fellow, even though it should never reach my ears — a poor negro-driver... 
