 | David Irving - English poetry - 1804 - 536 pages
...which is most calculated to fan the sparks of generous emulation. " This kind of life," says Burns, " the cheerless gloom of a hermit, with the unceasing moil of a galley-slave, brought me to my sixteent^year; a little before which period I first committed the sin of rhyme." Love, he informs us,... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1806 - 422 pages
...factor's insolent threatening letters, which used to set us all in tears. " This kind of life—the cheerless gloom of a hermit, with the unceasing moil...in the labours of harvest. In my fifteenth autumn, my partner was a bewitching creature, a year younger than myself. My scarcity of English denies me... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1813 - 422 pages
...factor's insolent threatening letters, which used to set us all in tears. " This kind of life—the cheerless gloom of a hermit, with the unceasing moil...in the labours of harvest. In my fifteenth autumn my partner was a bewitching creature, a year younger than myself. My scarcity of English denies me... | |
 | Robert Burns, James Currie - Scotland - 1814 - 502 pages
...threatening letters, which used to set us all in tears, " This kind of life—the cheerless gloom of ft hermit, with the unceasing moil of a galley-slave, brought me to my sixteenth yrar; a little before which period I first committed the sin of rhyme. You know our country custom... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1816 - 342 pages
...of life—the cheerless gloom of a her«nit, with the unceasing moil of a galley-slave, brought rfle to my sixteenth year; a little before W"hich period...in the labours of harvest. In my fifteenth autumn my partner was a bevritching creature, a year younger than myself. My scarcity of English denies me... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1819 - 388 pages
...1 factor's insolent threatening letters, which used to set us all in tears. This kind of life—the cheerless gloom of a hermit, with the unceasing moil...galley-slave, brought me to my sixteenth year; a little before I f)0 BURNS'S LETTERS^ which period I first committed the sin of Rhyme. Von know our country custom... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 1819 - 466 pages
...spirits, and was afflicted with dull headachs, the joint result of anxiety, low diet, and fatigue. " This kind of life," (he says) " the cheerless gloom of a hermit, and the " toil of a galley-slave, brought me to my sixteenth " year, when love made me a poet." The... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 1819 - 494 pages
...spirits, and was afflicted with dull headachs, the joint result of anxiety, low diet, and fatigue. “This kind of life,” (he says)” the cheerless gloom of a hermit, and the “toil of a galley-slave, brought me to my sixteenth “year, when love made me a poet.”... | |
 | Robert Burns, James Currie - Scotland - 1820 - 484 pages
...factor's insolent threatening letters, which used to set us all in tears. " This kind of life—the cheerless gloom of a hermit, with the unceasing moil...to my sixteenth year; a little before which period 1 first committed the sin of Rhyme. You know our country custom of coupling a man and woman together... | |
 | Robert Burns, Alfred Howard - Poetry - 1826 - 226 pages
...factor's insolent threatening letters, which used to set us all in tears. " This kind of life—the cheerless gloom of a hermit, with the unceasing moil of a galley-slave, looked and fingered o\ct \v« \JXUe Yws&Ao \\as-«a». -brought me to my sixteenth year ; a little... | |
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This kind of life," he says, "the cheerless gloom of a. hermit, with the unceasing moil of a galley-slave, brought me to my sixteenth year, a little before which period I first committed the sin of rhyme. You know our country custom of coupling a man... 
