| Robert Burns, James Currie - Scotland - 1820 - 484 pages
...Herveys 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...I am convinced I owe to this practice, much of my critic-craft, such as it is. " [n my seventeenth year, to give my manners a brush, I went to a country... | |
| Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1823 - 848 pages
...Hervey's Meditations, had formed the whole of my reading. The collection of songs was my vade mccuni. I pored over them driving my cart, or walking to labour, song by song, verse by verse ; carefully uoting the true tender, or sublime, from affectation and fustian. 1 am convinced I owe to this practice... | |
| 1824 - 312 pages
...Vfeditations, had formed the whole of my reading. The collection of songs was my vade mecvm. I >ored over them, driving my cart, or walking to labour, song- by song, verse by verse ; carefully noticing the true tender, or subime, from affectation and fustian. L am convinced I owe to this pracice... | |
| Robert Burns, Alfred Howard - Poetry - 1826 - 226 pages
...Hervey's Meditations, had formed the whole of my reading. The collection of songs was my vade mccum. I pored over them driving my cart, or walking to labour,...this practice much of my critic craft, such as it iS. " In my seventeenth year, to give my manners a brush, I went to a country dancing-school.—My father... | |
| Robert Burns - Scotland - 1826 - 272 pages
...• driving my cart, or walking to labor, song by song, verse by verse ; carefully noting the Irue tender, or sublime, from affectation and fustian. I am convinced I owe to this practice much of my critic-craft, such as it is. " In my seventeenth year, to give my manners a brush, I went to a country... | |
| Constable and co, ltd - 1826 - 734 pages
...the reigns of James I., and his son. The " Collection of Songs," says Burns,* " was my vade mecum. I pored over them, driving my cart, or walking to labour, song by song, verse by verse ; carefully noticing the true, tender, or sublime, from • Letter lo Dr Moore, 1787. B 2 affectation or fustian;... | |
| John Gibson Lockhart - Poets, Scottish - 1828 - 324 pages
...containing the reigns of James I., and his son. The "Collection of Songs," says Burns,* "was my vade mecum. I pored over them, driving my cart, or walking to labour, song by song, verse by verse ; .carefully noticing the true, tender, or sublime, from * Letter to Dr Moore,17f>7. B 2 affectation or fustian... | |
| George Lillie Craik - Knowledge, Theory of - 1830 - 464 pages
...Works, and a collection of English songs. " The collection of songs," he adds, " was my vade mecmn. I pored over them driving my cart, or walking to labour,...practice much of my. critic craft, such as it is." Ho afterwards went for a few weeks to a village school, where he obtained some acquaintance with the... | |
| Robert Burns - Scotland - 1831 - 484 pages
...Hervey't Meditaliont, had formed the wliole of my reading. The collection of Songs was my node mecum. I pored over them driving my cart, or walking to labour,...verse : carefully noting the true tender, or sublime, frutn affectation and fustian. I am convinced I owe to this practice much of my critic c rail, euch... | |
| John Gibson Lockhart - 1831 - 338 pages
...Dr. Moore, 1787. 3 carefully noticing the true, tender, or sublime, from affectation or fustian ; and I am convinced I owe to this practice much of my critic -craft, such as it is." He derived, during this period, considerable advantage from the vicinity of Mount Oliphant to the town... | |
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