 ... for objects in nature around me, that are in unison or harmony with the cogitations of my fancy, and workings of my bosom; humming every now and then the air, with the verses I have framed. When I feel my muse beginning to jade, I retire to the solitary...  Acme library of standard biography - Strana 91880Úplné zobrazenie - O tejto knihe
 | Robert Burns - 1800 - Počet stránok 460
...feel my muse beginning to jade, I retire to the solitary fireside of my study, and there commit my effusions to paper; swinging at intervals on the hind...calling forth my own critical strictures, as my pen goes on. Seriously, this, at home, is almost invariably my way. What cursed egotism! Gill Morice, I am for... | |
 | Robert Burns, James Currie - 1814 - Počet stránok 502
...feel my muse heginning to jade, I retire to the solitary fire-side of my study, and there eommit my effusions to paper ; swinging at intervals on the hind legs of my elhow-ehair, hy way of ealling forth my own eritieal strietures, as my pen goes on. Seriously, this,... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1816 - Počet stránok 714
...feel my muse beginning to jade, I retire to the solitary fire-side of my study, and there commit my effusions to paper ; swinging at intervals on the...calling forth my own critical strictures, as my pen goes on. Seriously, this, at home, is almost invariably my way. What cursed egotism ! Gill Morice, I am... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1816 - Počet stránok 468
...and there commit roy effusions to paper ; swinging at intervals on the hind legs of my elbow chair, by way of calling forth my own critical strictures, as my pen goes on. Seriously, this, at home, is almost invariably my way. What cursed egotism ! Gill Morice, I am... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1818 - Počet stránok 346
...feel my muse heginning to jade, I retire to the solitary fire-side of my study, and there eommit my effusions to paper; swinging at intervals on the hind legs of my elhow-ehair, hy way of ealling forth my own eritieal strietures, as my pen goes on. Seriously, this,... | |
 | 1819 - Počet stránok 364
...fire-side of my study, and there commit my effusions to paper; swinging at intervals on the hind-legs of my elbow-chair ; by way of calling forth my own critical strictures, as my pen goes on. Seriously, this, at home, is almost invariably my way. ' , What cursed egotism ! Gill Morice I... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1819 - Počet stránok 388
...fire-side of uiy study, and there commit my effusions to paper; swinging at intervals on the hind-legs of my elbow-chair ; by way of calling forth my own critical strictures, as my pen goes on. Seriously, this, at home, is almost invariably my way. What cursed egotism ! Gill Morice I am for... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1819 - Počet stránok 658
...feel my muse beginning to jade, I retire to the solitary fire-side of my study, and there commit my effusions to paper ; swinging at intervals on the hind legs of my elbow chair, by way of calling forth my own critical strictures, as my pen goes on. Seriously, this,... | |
 | Constable and co, ltd - 1826 - Počet stránok 734
...feel my muse beginning to jade, I retire to the solitary fireside of my study, and there commit my effusions to paper; swinging at intervals on the hind...Seriously, this, at home, is almost invariably my way.—What cursed egotism !"-j• Correspondence with Mr Thomson, p. 57t Ibid. p. 119. x 2 In this... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1828 - Počet stránok 324
...beginning to jade, I retire to the solitary fireside of my study, and there commit my e£. fusions to paper ; swinging at intervals on the hind legs...Seriously, this, at home, is almost invariably my way, — What cursed egotism !"•(• * Correspondence with Mr Thomson, p. fi7. t Ibid. p. 110. In this... | |
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