 | Thomas Finlayson Henderson - Literary Criticism - 1904 - 250 pages
...by S. Mackenzie assembly than a penny pay wedding." To Miss Chalmers he wrote of her thus : " If I have not got polite tattle, modish manners, and fashionable...soundest constitution, and the kindest heart in the country. Mrs. Burns believes, as firmly as her creed, that I am le plus bel esprit, et le plus honnete... | |
 | Bibliography - 1904 - 1136 pages
...an apprentice to my mother and sisters in their diary and other rural business. . . . If I have not polite tattle, modish manners, and fashionable dress...of boarding-school affectation, and I have got the sweetest temper, the soundest constitution, and the kindest heart in the country." We have the poet's... | |
 | Charles Shirra Dougall - Literary landmarks - 1904 - 440 pages
...was bound in honour before he saw either Peggy Chalmers or Clarinda. He was happy in having in Jean " the handsomest figure, the sweetest temper, the soundest constitution, and the kindest heart in the country." She was his "dear love," whose letter gave him a pleasure no other could give, in the first... | |
 | Robert Ford - Scottish poetry - 1906 - 212 pages
..." Shortly after my return to Ayrshire I married ' my Jean.' Nor have I any cause to repent it. If I have not got polite tattle, modish manners, and fashionable...disgusted with the multiform curse of boarding-school affectations; and I have got the handsomest figure, the sweetest temper, the soundest constitution,... | |
 | Henry Grey Graham - Authors, Scottish - 1908 - 441 pages
...marriage was not perhaps in consequence of the attachment of romance. I have no cause to repent it. If I have not got polite tattle, modish manners, and fashionable...affectation ; and I have got the handsomest figure, the soundest constitution, and the kindest heart in the county." And then she could sing and did sing his... | |
 | John Campbell Shairp - Literary Criticism - 1909 - 232 pages
...fashionable dress, I am not sickened and disquieted with the multiform curse of boarding-school afiectation ; and I have got the handsomest figure, the sweetest...soundest constitution, and the kindest heart in the country. . . .-A certain late publication of Scots poems she has perused very devoutly, and all the... | |
 | Robert Burns - Poets, Scottish - 1928 - 220 pages
...fashionable dress, I am not sickened and disgusted with the multiform curse of boarding-school affectation ; I have got the handsomest figure, the sweetest temper,...constitution, and the kindest heart in the county." It was not Jean, of course, but old Armour, who " fawned " to the now popular and distinguished poet,... | |
 | Genealogy - 1894 - 710 pages
...better nature reasserted itself he did her ample justice. "I have got," he says after his marriage, " the handsomest figure, the sweetest temper, the soundest...constitution, and the kindest heart in the County, . . . and she has the finest 'wood-note wild' I ever heard." (Letter to Miss Margaret Chalmers). The... | |
 | 1917 - 636 pages
...letter but one from you could have given me, &c." 38. Letter to Margaret Chalmers, 16th September, 1788. polite tattle, modish manners, and fashionable dress,...soundest constitution, and the kindest heart in the country. Mrs Burns believes, as firmly as her creed, that I am le plus bcl esprit, et le pin* hannftf... | |
 | 1851 - 432 pages
...determination, and I durst not trifle with so important a deposit. Nor have I any cause to repent it. I have not got polite tattle, modish manners, and fashionable...constitution, and the kindest heart, in the county." But Burns was dissipated in his habits, and irregular in his industry. He was but a poor provider for... | |
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Nor have I any cause to repent it. If I have not got polite tattle, modish manners, and fashionable dress, I am not sickened and disgusted with the multiform curse of boarding-school affectation; and I have got the handsomest figure, the sweetest temper,... 
