 ... for objects in nature around me, that are in unison or harmony with the cogitations of my fancy, and workings of my bosom; humming every now and then the air, with the verses I have framed. When I feel my muse beginning to jade, I retire to the solitary...  Acme library of standard biography - Stran 91880Celotni ogled - O knjigi
 | Robert Burns - 1800 - 460 strani
...feel my muse beginning to jade, I retire to the solitary fireside of my study, and there commit my effusions to paper; swinging at intervals on the hind...calling forth my own critical strictures, as my pen goes on. Seriously, this, at home, is almost invariably my way. What cursed egotism! Gill Morice, I am for... | |
 | Robert Burns, James Currie - 1814 - 502 strani
...feel my muse heginning to jade, I retire to the solitary fire-side of my study, and there eommit my effusions to paper ; swinging at intervals on the hind legs of my elhow-ehair, hy way of ealling forth my own eritieal strietures, as my pen goes on. Seriously, this,... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1816 - 714 strani
...feel my muse beginning to jade, I retire to the solitary fire-side of my study, and there commit my effusions to paper ; swinging at intervals on the...calling forth my own critical strictures, as my pen goes on. Seriously, this, at home, is almost invariably my way. What cursed egotism ! Gill Morice, I am... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1816 - 468 strani
...and there commit roy effusions to paper ; swinging at intervals on the hind legs of my elbow chair, by way of calling forth my own critical strictures, as my pen goes on. Seriously, this, at home, is almost invariably my way. What cursed egotism ! Gill Morice, I am... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1818 - 346 strani
...feel my muse heginning to jade, I retire to the solitary fire-side of my study, and there eommit my effusions to paper; swinging at intervals on the hind legs of my elhow-ehair, hy way of ealling forth my own eritieal strietures, as my pen goes on. Seriously, this,... | |
 | 1819 - 364 strani
...fire-side of my study, and there commit my effusions to paper; swinging at intervals on the hind-legs of my elbow-chair ; by way of calling forth my own critical strictures, as my pen goes on. Seriously, this, at home, is almost invariably my way. ' , What cursed egotism ! Gill Morice I... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1819 - 388 strani
...fire-side of uiy study, and there commit my effusions to paper; swinging at intervals on the hind-legs of my elbow-chair ; by way of calling forth my own critical strictures, as my pen goes on. Seriously, this, at home, is almost invariably my way. What cursed egotism ! Gill Morice I am for... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1819 - 658 strani
...feel my muse beginning to jade, I retire to the solitary fire-side of my study, and there commit my effusions to paper ; swinging at intervals on the hind legs of my elbow chair, by way of calling forth my own critical strictures, as my pen goes on. Seriously, this,... | |
 | Constable and co, ltd - 1826 - 734 strani
...feel my muse beginning to jade, I retire to the solitary fireside of my study, and there commit my effusions to paper; swinging at intervals on the hind...Seriously, this, at home, is almost invariably my way.—What cursed egotism !"-j• Correspondence with Mr Thomson, p. 57t Ibid. p. 119. x 2 In this... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1828 - 324 strani
...beginning to jade, I retire to the solitary fireside of my study, and there commit my e£. fusions to paper ; swinging at intervals on the hind legs...Seriously, this, at home, is almost invariably my way, — What cursed egotism !"•(• * Correspondence with Mr Thomson, p. fi7. t Ibid. p. 110. In this... | |
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