 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...  Burns Chronicle and Club Directory - Strana 131904Úplné zobrazenie - O tejto knihe
 | Henry (the Minstrel) - 1889 - Počet stránok 567
...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 floodgates of life shut in eternal rest." Also, in writing to Mr Thomson enclosing " Scots vvha hae," he remarks : " I have borrowed the last... | |
 | Hendrik Poutsma - 1914
...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.... | |
 | Thomas Finlayson Henderson - 1904 - Počet stránok 202
...bagpipe, and wish myself tall enough that I might 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." Another trait which developed early was his marvellous interest in his fellows. " My social disposition,"... | |
 | Thomas Finlayson Henderson - 1904 - Počet stránok 202
...bagpipe, and wish myself tall enough that I might 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." Another trait which developed early was his marvellous interest in his fellows. " My social disposition,"... | |
 | 1906
...his " misfortunes great and sma" our poet did not include the land of his birth. The man who declared "the story of Wallace poured a tide of Scottish prejudice...till the floodgates of life shut in eternal rest," and wrote "Tarn O' Shanter" and "The Jolly Beggars," was not likely to regret that his lot had been... | |
 | 1896
...of Sir William Wallace, one of his first books : "The story of Wallace poured a Scotch prejudice in my veins, which will boil along there till the flood-gates of life shut in eternal rest." The reader will by this time have noticed Carlyle's carelessness about small points. he eagerly searches... | |
 | Julian Hill - 1907 - Počet stránok 303
...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. For the quickening of his imagination and the cultivation within him of " the latent seeds of poetry,"... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1907 - Počet stránok 162
...of their faith. — " a tide of Scottish prejudice . . . heart " : " The story of Wallace poured a Scottish prejudice into my veins, which will boil...till the flood-gates of life shut in eternal rest." (Burns's letter to Dr. Moore, Aug. 2, 1787.) "The appellation of a Scottish bard is by far my highest... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1908
...were The Life of Hannibal and The History a! Sir William Wallace; .... the story of Wallace poured a Scottish prejudice into my veins which will boil along...there till the floodgates of life shut in eternal rest What I know of ancient story was gathered from Salmon's and Guthrie's Geographical Grammars; and the... | |
 | George Iles - 1908
...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. Polemical divinity about this time was putting the country half mad, and I, ambitious of shining in... | |
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