 | Robert Burns, James Currie - Scotland - 1820 - 484 pages
...or walking to labour, song by song, verse by verse ; carefully noting the true tender, or sublime, from affectation and fustian. I am convinced I owe to this practice, much of my critic-craft, such as it is. " [n my seventeenth year, to give my manners a brush, I went to a country... | |
 | Robert Burns, Alfred Howard - Poetry - 1826 - 226 pages
...cart, or walking to labour, song by song, verse by verse; carefully noting the true tender, or sublime, from affectation and fustian. I am convinced I owe...year, to give my manners a brush, I went to a country dancing-school.—My father had an unaccountable antipathy against these meetings ; and my going was,... | |
 | Robert Burns - Scotland - 1826 - 272 pages
...cart, or walking to labor, song by song, verse by verse ; carefully noting the Irue tender, or sublime, from affectation and fustian. I am convinced I owe to this practice much of my critic-craft, such as it is. " In my seventeenth year, to give my manners a brush, I went to a country... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - Philosophy - 1830 - 440 pages
...cart, or walking to labour, song by song, verse by verse, carefully noting the true tender or sublime, from affectation and fustian. I am convinced I owe...practice much of my critic craft, such as it is." He afterwards went for a few weeks to a village school, where he obtained some acquaintance with the... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - Knowledge, Theory of - 1830 - 484 pages
...cart, or walking to labour, song by song, verse by verse, carefully noting the true tender or sublime, from affectation and fustian. I am convinced I owe...practice much of my critic craft, such as it is." He afterwards went for a few weeks to a village school, where he obtained some acquaintance with the... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1831 - 338 pages
...Dr. Moore, 1787. 3 carefully noticing the true, tender, or sublime, from affectation or fustian ; and I am convinced I owe to this practice much of my critic -craft, such as it is." He derived, during this period, considerable advantage from the vicinity of Mount Oliphant to the town... | |
 | Robert Burns - Scotland - 1831 - 484 pages
...walking to labour, song by song, verse by verse : carefully noting the true tender, or sublime, frutn affectation and fustian. I am convinced I owe to this practice much of my critic c rail, euch as it is. " In my seventeenth year, to give my manners a brush, I went to a country dancing... | |
 | Robert Burns - Ballads, Scots - 1834 - 420 pages
...cart or walking to labour, song by song, verse by verse, carefully noting the true tender or sublime from affectation and fustian. I am convinced I owe...practice much of my critic craft, such as it is." The songs of Scotland had, in no remote day, the advantages of the schooling which in these early hours... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1834 - 360 pages
...or walking to labour, song by song, verse by verse ; carefully noting the true tender, or sublime, from affectation and fustian. I am convinced I owe to this practice much of my critic-craft, such as it is. In my seventeenth year, to give my manners a brush, I went to a country... | |
 | Robert Burns, Allan Cunningham - Ballads, Scots - 1834 - 368 pages
...or walking to labour, song by song, verse by verse ; carefully noting the true tender, or sublime, from affectation and fustian. I am convinced I owe to this practice much of my critic-craft, such as it is. In my seventeenth year, to give my manners a brash, I went to a country... | |
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Meditations, had formed the whole of my reading. The collection of songs was my vade mecum. I pored over them driving my cart, or walking to labour, song by song, verse by verse ; carefully noting the true tender, or sublime, from affectation and fustian.... 
