 | Edmund Burke - 1801 - 762 pages
...(ong, vcrfc by verfe ; carefully noting the true tender, or lublime, from affectation and fufiian. I am convinced I owe to this practice much of my 'critic craft, fuch as it is. In my feven teen thy ear, to give ray manners a brufh, I went to a country dancihg-fchool.... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1800 - 424 pages
...walking to labour, song by song, verse tf 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. " In my seventeeth year, to give my manners " a brush, I went to a... | |
 | 1801 - 762 pages
...by (ong, vede by verfe; carefully noting the true tender, or (ublime, from affectation and fuliian. I am convinced I owe to this practice much of my critic craft, luch as it is. In my feverUecnlh year, togive my manners a brufli, I went to a country dancing-fchool.... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1806 - 422 pages
...cart, 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...year, to give my manners a brush, I went to a country dancing.school.—My father had an unaccountable antipathy against these meetings; and my going was,... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1813 - 422 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...seventeenth year, to give my manners a brush, I went to a coantry dancingschool. — My father had an unaccountable antipathy against these meetings; and my... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1814 - 306 pages
...this practice much of my critic-craft, such as it is. " In my seventeenth year, to give my mauners a brush, I went to a country dancing-school. My father had an antipathy against these meetings, and my going was, what to this moment I repent, in opposition to... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1816 - 342 pages
...cart, 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...year, to give my manners a brush, I went to a country dancing school. — My father had an unaccountable antipathy against these meetings ; and my going... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1816 - 714 pages
...to labour, song toy Ko. 3. N -V 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. In my seventeenth year, to give my manners a brush, I went to a country... | |
 | 1819 - 364 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...year, to give my manners a brush, I went to a country dancing school. — My father had an unaccountable antipathy against these meetings ; and my going... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1819 - 388 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...year, to give my manners a brush, I went to a country dancing school. — My father had an unaccountable antipathy against these meetings ; and my going... | |
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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.... 
