 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
 | Walter Swain Hinchman, Francis Barton Gummere - 1908 - Počet stránok 610
...everything he touched. At this early date the story of Sir William Wallace, he afterwards wrote, " poured a Scottish prejudice into my veins, which will boil along there, till the flood gates of life shut in eternal rest." When Robert was seven his father moved to a farm at Mt.... | |
 | Robert Burns, Alexander Smith - 1910 - Počet stránok 706
...drum and bag-pipe, 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. Polemical divinity about this time was putting the country half mad, and I, ambitious of shining in... | |
 | Charles Wells Moulton - 1910 - Počet stránok 812
...JOHN, 1521, Major De Gestis Scotorum, f. Ixxiiii. The story of Wallace poured a Scottish prejudice in my veins, which will boil along there till the flood-gates of life shut in eternal rest.— BURNS, ROBERT, 1787, Letter to Dr. Moore. That a man born blind should excel in any science is sufficiently... | |
 | Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow - 1911 - Počet stránok 250
...after the recruiting drum and bagpipe, and wish myself tall enough that I might be a soldier ; while the story of Wallace poured a tide of Scottish prejudice...till the flood-gates of life shut in eternal rest."] Guthrie & Salmon's Geographical Grammar. Some numbers of The Spectator. Pope's Works. Some plays of... | |
 | Henry Van Dyke - 1911 - Počet stránok 444
...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 along...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 in... | |
 | Robert Maynard Leonard - 1912 - Počet stránok 788
...drum and bag-pipe, and wish myself tall enough to be a soldier ; while the story of Wallace poured a Scottish prejudice into my veins, which will boil...flood-gates of life shut in eternal rest. . . . the knowledge of mankind. The contraband trade was at that time very successful, and it sometimes happened... | |
 | William Geddie - 1912 - Počet stránok 488
...myself tall enough that I might be a soldier ; while the story of Wallace poured a Scottish prejudice in my veins, which will boil along there till the flood-gates of life shut in eternal rest." Works, ed. Douglas, Vol. IV. pp. 6-7. James Scott. The Wallace. 1790. Vol. I. Pp. 5-20, An Account... | |
 | Ernest Rhys - 1913 - Počet stránok 410
...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." A page later we find Burns touching on the hardships of his youth in terms the more convincing because... | |
 | Hendrik Poutsma - 1914 - Počet stránok 730
...muddle. Westm. Gaz., No. 5036, 16c. floodgates, in a figurative meaning. The "Life of Wallace" poured a Scottish prejudice into my veins, which will boil...till the floodgates of life shut in eternal rest. BURNS, Letter to Dr. Moore. The floodgates were opened, and mother and daughter wept. THACK., Van.... | |
 | 1918 - Počet stránok 404
...he was proud to confess in the well known and often quoted words : ' the spirit of Wallace poured a Scottish prejudice into my veins which will boil along...till the floodgates of life shut in eternal rest.' He is not particularly good at Scottish history. His Scottish politics are determined by Scotch drink.... | |
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