I may truly say, Virgilium vidi tantum. I was a lad of fifteen in 1786-7, 20 when he came first to Edinburgh, but had sense and feeling enough to be much interested in his poetry, and would have given the world to know him : but I had very little acquaintance... Critical and Miscellaneous Essays - Strana 315podľa Thomas Carlyle - 1838 - Počet stránok 454Úplné zobrazenie - O tejto knihe
| 1828 - Počet stránok 722
...Burns," writes Sir Walter, ' I may truly say, Virgilivm ridi tantum. I was a lad of fifteen in 1786-7, when he came first to Edinburgh, but had sense and...enough to be much interested in his poetry, and would haye given the world to know him ; but I had very little acquaintance with any literary people, and... | |
| Constable and co, ltd - 1826 - Počet stránok 734
...Scott:— : " As for Burns, I may truly say, Virgilium vidi tantum. I was a lad of fifteen in 1786-7, when he came first to Edinburgh, but had sense and...any literary people, and still less with the gentry • Morrison's Bums, vol. i. pp. Ixxi. Ujcii. •of the west country, the two sets that he most frequented.... | |
| John Gibson Lockhart - 1828 - Počet stránok 324
...Scott ; — . " As for Burns, I may truly say, Virgilium vidi tantum. I was al;id of fifteen in 1786-7, when he came first to Edinburgh, but had sense and...any literary people, and still less with the gentry • Morrison's Bums, vol. i. pp. Ixxi. Ixxii. of the west country, the two seta that he most frequented.... | |
| 1828 - Počet stránok 268
...truly say, VtrgiKum vidi tanturn. I was a lad of fifteen in 1786-7, when he came to Edinburgh, but bad sense and feeling enough to be much interested in...little acquaintance with any literary people, and si; il less with the gentry of the west country, the two sets that he most frequented. Mr. Thomas Grierson... | |
| John Gibson Lockhart - 1830 - Počet stránok 340
...Scott : — " As for Burns, I may truly say, Virgiliuih tidi tnntnm. I was a lad of fifteen in 1786-7, when he came first to Edinburgh, but had sense and...little acquaintance with any literary people, and less with the gentry of the west country, the two sets that he most frequented. Mr Thomas Grierson... | |
| 1835 - Počet stránok 842
...say, ' Virgiliuni vidi tantum.' I was a lad of fifteen in 1786-7, when he came first to Edinborough, but had sense and feeling enough to be much interested...little acquaintance with any literary people, and still loss with the gentry of the west country, the two sets that he most frequented." "As it was, I saw... | |
| John Gibson Lockhart - 1837 - Počet stránok 318
...for Burns," (he writes,) " I may truly say, Virgilium vidi tantum. I was a lad of fifteen in 1786-7, when he came first to Edinburgh, but had sense and...acquaintance with any literary people, and still less with * Life of Scott, by Mr. Allan, p. 53. the gentry of the west country, the two sets that he most frequented.... | |
| James Currie - 1838 - Počet stránok 92
...say, Virgttmm vidi tantum. I was a lad of fifteen in 1786-7, when he came first to Edinburgh, but bad sense and feeling enough to be much interested in...with the gentry of the west country, the two sets whom he most frequented. Mr T. Orierson was at that time a clerk of my father's. He knew Burns, and... | |
| Allan Cunningham - 1841 - Počet stránok 384
...be rewarded/' " I was a lad of fifteen," says Sir Walter Scott, " in 1786-7, when Burns first came to Edinburgh; but had sense and feeling enough to...poetry, and would have given the world to know him. . . . As it was, I saw him one day at the late venerable Professor Ferguson's, where there were several... | |
| Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1831 - Počet stránok 622
...Walter Scott wag perceived by Robert Burns. " I was a lad of fifteen," says the former, when he came to Edinburgh, but had sense and feeling enough to...poetry, and would have given the world to know him. I saw him accidently at Professor Ferguson's : the оц!у thing I remember which was remarkable in... | |
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