 | Joseph Johnson - 1883 - Počet stránok 426
...not willingly let die." A collection of songs which he possessed, he tells us, he pored over " while driving my cart or walking to labour, song by song,...verse by verse, carefully noting the true, tender, and sublime, from affectation and fustian. I am convinced I owe to this practice much of my critic... | |
 | Esther J. Trimble Lippincott - 1884 - Počet stránok 536
...ascribed the waking of his own muse. "These," said he, " I pored over driving my cart or walking to labor, song by song, verse by verse, carefully noting the...'tender or sublime, from affectation and fustian." occasion, "some one entering the house at meal-time found the whole family seated each with a spoon... | |
 | Maude Gillette Phillips - 1885 - Počet stránok 612
...of songs he says, " This was my vadc mecum. I pored over them driving my cart or walking to labor, song by song, verse by verse, carefully noting the...tender, or sublime from affectation and fustian." Thus were his poetic talents, though still dormant, nourished, till at last he fell in love and suddenly... | |
 | Maude Gillette Phillips - 1885 - Počet stránok 648
...of songs he says, " This was my vade mecum. I pored over them driving my cart or walking to labor, song by song, verse by verse, carefully noting the...tender, or sublime from affectation and fustian." Thus were his poetic talents, though still dormant, nourished, till at last he fell in love and suddenly... | |
 | Maude Gillette Phillips - 1885 - Počet stránok 614
...songs he says, " This was my vade mecum. I pored over them driving my cart or walking to labor, spng by song, verse by verse, carefully noting the true,...tender, or sublime from affectation and fustian." Thus were his poetic talents, though still dormant, nourished, till at last he fell in love and suddenly... | |
 | 1901 - Počet stránok 106
...of English Songs." To quote his own words, "I pored over them, driving my cart or walking to labor, song by song, verse by verse, carefully noting the...sublime from affectation and fustian. I am convinced that I owe to this practice much of my critic craft, such as it is." He used even to eat his meals... | |
 | Harry Thurston Peck - 1901 - Počet stránok 468
...English Songs." Of these songs Burns says : " I pored over them, driving my cart or walking to labor, song by song, verse by verse, carefully noting the...sublime, from affectation and fustian. I am convinced that I owe to this practice much of my critic craft, such as it is." In 1786 he published a volume... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1903 - Počet stránok 168
...Shakespeare, and above all a select collection of English songs. " The collection of songs was my vade mecum. I pored over them, driving my cart, or walking...tender, or sublime, from affectation and fustian." In the main, however, his life up to his sixteenth year was one of very plain living and hard work.... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1903 - Počet stránok 174
...The collection of songs was my vade mecum. I pored over them, driving my cart, or walking to labor, song by song, verse by verse ; carefully noting the...tender, or sublime, from affectation and fustian." In the main, however, his life up to his sixteenth year was one of very plain living and hard work.... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1904 - Počet stránok 524
...wore out thus two copies of Mackenzie's Man of Fading. "The collection of songs was my vade niecum. I pored over them driving my cart, or walking to labour,...verse by verse, carefully noting the true, tender, sublime, or fustian." He maintained a correspondence with several of his companions in the same rank... | |
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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. I am convinced I owe to this practice much... 
