| 1860 - Počet stránok 782
...works. Of this varied assortment, " the Collection of Songs," says the poet himself, "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 and sublime, from affectation or fustian ; and I am convinced I owe to this... | |
| John McGilchrist - 1860 - Počet stránok 404
...of Shakspeare, Pope, and Allan Ramsay, whose works he shortly afterwards procured, he says : — " 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 affectation or fustian." But a poet's education does not... | |
| Hippolyte Taine - 1863 - Počet stránok 712
...My great constituent elements are pride and passion. 2. The collection of songs was my vade-mecum. I pored over them driving my cart, or walking to labour,...verse by verse , carefully noting the true , tender, sublime or fustian. cultivés ; tout à l'heure, à Édimbourg, il va percer à jour les docteurs respectés,... | |
| Hippolyte Taine - 1863 - Počet stránok 696
...constituent elements are pride and passion. 2. Thé collection of songs was my vade-mecum. I pored over thém driving my cart, or walking to labour, song by song....verse by verse , carefully noting the true , tender, sublime or fustian. 3. Never did a héart pant more ardently than mine to be distinguishéd. cultivés... | |
| Robert Burns - 1863 - Počet stránok 358
...Ramsay, and a collection of songs which constituted his vade-mecum. " I pored over them," says he, "driving my cart or walking to labour, song by song, verse by verse, carefully noticing the true tender or sublime from affectation and fustian." So early did he evince his attachment... | |
| Robert Burns - 1863 - Počet stránok 368
...Ramsay, and a collection of songs which constituted his vade-mecum. " I pored over them," says he, "driving my cart or walking to labour, song by song, verse by verse, carefully noticing the true tender or sublime from affectation and fustian." So early did he evince his attachment... | |
| Robert Burns - 1864 - Počet stránok 380
...Ramsay, and a collection of Bongs which constituted his vade-mecum. " I pored over them," says he, " driving my cart or walking to labour, song by song, verse by verse, carefully noticing the true tender or sublime from affectation and fustian." So early did he evince his attachment... | |
| George Lillie Craik - 1865 - Počet stránok 594
...Ramsay's Works, and a collection of English songs. " The collection of songs," he adds, " was my vade mecum. I pored over them driving my cart, or walking...practice much of my critic craft, such as it is." He afterwards went for a few weeks to a village school, where he obtained some acquaintance with the... | |
| Hippolyte Taine - 1866 - Počet stránok 500
...1. My gicat constituent clements are pnde and passion. 2. The collection of songs was my vade-mccum. I pored over them driving my cart, or walking to labour, song hy song , avec plusieurs de ses camarades de classe pour se former le style, tenait un journal, y jetait... | |
| Robert Burns, Alexander Smith - 1868 - Počet stránok 688
...Songs, and Hervey's 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...fustian. I am convinced I owe to this practice much of my critie/craft, such as it is. j In my seventeenth year, to give my manners a brush, I went to a country... | |
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