 Hannibal gave my young ideas such a turn that I used to strut in raptures up and down after the recruiting drum and bagpipe, and wish myself tall enough to be a soldier, while the story of Wallace poured a Scottish prejudice into my veins, which will...  Annual Burns Chronicle and Club Directory - Strana 131904Úplné zobrazenie - O tejto knihe
 | Robert Burns - 1840 - Počet stránok 872
...drum and bagpipe, and wish myself tall enough to be a soldier ; while the story of Wallace poured a oil-worn Cotter frae his labour goes, This night his...is at an end, Collects his spades, his mattocks, an education of Burns was not over when the school-doors were shut. The peasantry of Scotland turn their... | |
 | Thomas Cogswell Upham - 1842 - Počet stránok 226
...drum and bagpipe, and wish myself tall enough to be a soldier ; while the story of Wallace poured a Scottish prejudice into my veins, which will boil...the floodgates of life shut in eternal rest." The unfortunate Theobald Wolf Tone, speaking of his practice, in early life, of attending the military... | |
 | Robert Burns, James Currie - 1844 - Počet stránok 706
...drum and bagpipe, and wish myself tall enough to be a »oldier ; while the story of Wallace poured a Scottish prejudice into my veins, which will boil...till the flood-gates of life shut in eternal rest. * Polemical divinity about this time was putting the country half mad ; and I, ambitious of shining... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1844 - Počet stránok 680
...drum and bagpipe, and wish myself tall enough to be a soldier ; while the story of Wallace poured a Scottish prejudice into my veins, which will boil...till the floodgates of life shut in eternal rest." Burns enjoyed other schooling than that we have mentioned, and which doubtless exerted a powerful influence... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1844 - Počet stránok 336
...drum and bagpipe, and wish myself tall enough to be a soldier ; while the story of Wallace poured a Scottish prejudice into my veins, which will boil...till the floodgates of life shut in eternal rest." Burns enjoyed other schooling than that we have mentioned, and which doubtless exerted a powerful influence... | |
 | John Wilson - 1845 - Počet stránok 266
...and down after the recruiting drum and bagpipe, and wished myself tall enough to be a soldier; while the story of Wallace poured a tide of Scottish prejudice...till the floodgates of life shut in eternal rest." And speaking of the same period and books to Mrs. Dunlop, he says, " For several of my earlier years... | |
 | 1847 - Počet stránok 606
...drum and bagpipe, and wish myself tall enough to be a soldier; while the story of Wallace poured a Scottish prejudice into my veins, which will boil...till the flood-gates of life shut in eternal rest." Shakspeare has been the universal favorite of the sons of genius ; but the enthusiasm of one humble... | |
 | 1847 - Počet stránok 574
...standard on the banks of Bannockburn," and says in his own vehement way, " The story of Wallace poured a Scottish prejudice into my veins, which will boil...till the floodgates of life shut in eternal rest." Burns and Scott divide between them the field of the old unnamed bards of Scotland. Burns was the heir... | |
 | 1847 - Počet stránok 650
...standard on the banks of Bannockburn," and says in his own vehement way," The story of Wallace poured a Scottish prejudice into my veins, which will boil...till the floodgates of life shut in eternal rest." Burns and Scott divide between them the field of the old unnamed bards of Scotland. Burns was the heir... | |
 | 1848 - Počet stránok 936
...Scotchman reads the tale of Wallace and of Bruce, without having a national prejudice poured into his veins " which will boil along there till the flood-gates of life shut in eternal rest." In this respect, Burns is a fair representative of his people. A reverence for Scotland and her heroes,... | |
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