 | Robert Bisset - 1800 - 678 pages
...FROM ROBERT BURKS, THE POET, TO MR. CUNNINGHAM, NEPHEW OF DR. ROBERTSON, THF. HISTORIAN. sin, "MO ! I will not attempt an apology. Amid all my hurry of...grinding the faces of the publican and the sinner oa the merciless wheels of'the excise ; making ballads, and then diinking and Dinging them ; and, over... | |
 | 1819 - 364 pages
...of discharging a vessel of rum from Antigua. cm. TO MR. CUNNINGHAM. Dumfries, loth Sept. ngt. No ! I will not attempt an apology. Amid all my hurry of...publican and the sinner on the merciless wheels of the ex. cise ; making ballads, and then drinking, and sing, ing them ; and, over and above all, the correcting... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1831 - 484 pages
...a vessel of rum from Antigua. No. CXXXIII. TO MR. CUNNINGHAM. Dumfries, 10th September, 1792. No ! I will not attempt an apology — Amid all my hurry...then drinking, and singing them; and, over and above ail, the correcting the press-work of two different publications, still, still I might have stolen... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1834 - 420 pages
...mind into a new train of thought. " Amid all my hurry of business," he writes in 1792 to Cunningham, " grinding the faces of the publican and the sinner...making ballads, and then drinking and singing them, I might have stolen five minutes to dedicate to one of the first of friends and fellow-creatures."... | |
 | Robert Burns, John Gibson Lockhart - 1837 - 628 pages
...September, 1792. No ! I will not attempt an apology. — Amid all my hurry of businen, grinding the face of the publican and the sinner on the merciless wheels...making ballads, and then, drinking, and singing them ; ¿mil, over and above all, the" correcting the press-work of two different publications; still, still... | |
 | 1895 - 862 pages
...habitually at the Globe tavern and other such hannts. Burns himself describes his occupations as, " Hurry of business, grinding the faces of the publican...drinking and singing them ; and over and above all, correcting the press of two different publications." His acquaintance was dropped by the old Dumfriesshire... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1856 - 746 pages
...discharging a vessel of rum from Antigua. RB TO MB CUNNINGHAM. • DUMFRIES, 10(A September 1792. No! I will not attempt an apology. Amid all my hurry of...correcting the press-work of two different publications : a still, still I might have stolen five minutes to dedicate to one of the first of my friends and... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1859 - 736 pages
...discharging a vessel of rum from Antigua. RB CCLVIII. TO MR CUNNINGHAM. DUMFEIES, ICtt September 1792. No ! I will not attempt an apology. Amid all my hurry of...drinking and singing them ; and, over and above all, the correeting the press-work of two different publications; still, still I might have stolen five minutes... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1868 - 312 pages
...September, 1792. No ! I will not attempt an apology.— Araid all my hurry of business, grinding the face of the publican and the sinner on the merciless wheels...correcting the press-work of two different publications; stilt, still I might have stolen nve minutes to dedicate to one of the first of my friends and fellow... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1871 - 516 pages
...his letter to Alex. Cunningham, of 10th Sep., 17fi2. Pets that question at rest: — "Amid all the hurry of business. grinding the faces of the publican...sinner on the merciless wheels of the excise ; making bnllads, and then drinking, and singing them; and over and above all. the correcting the press-work... | |
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I will not attempt an apology. — Amid all my hurry of business, grinding the faces of the publican and the sinner on the merciless wheels of the Excise ; making ballads, and then drinking, and singing them ; and, over and above all, the correcting the... 
