...[The Lark, 1746 and 1765, a small volume which he could carry in his pocket] "was," he says, "my vade mecum. I pored over them driving my cart, or walking...song by song, verse by verse, carefully noting the tender or sublime from affectation or fustian." At Kirkoswald his reading was further enlarged by what...

...[The Lark, 1746 and 1765, a small volume which he could carry in his pocket] "was," he says, "my -vade mecum. I pored over them driving my cart, or walking...song by song, verse by verse, carefully noting the tender or sublime from affectation or fustian." At Kirkoswald his reading was further enlarged by what...

...grcut constituent elements arc pride and passion. » 2. « The collection of son.ïs was my vade-meeum. I pored over them driving my cart, or walking to labour, song by song, verse by verse, carefully noting Ihe true, tender, sublime or fustian. » écossaises, et le soir dans sa petite chambrette froide,...

...verse by verse ; 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." A consciousness of his strength began to dawn upon him and to fill his mind with a great ambition....

...morality— so populär in the eighteenth Century. It became, he says, "my v ade mecum. I pored over it, driving my cart or walking to labour song by song, verse by verse — carefully noteing the tender or sublime from affectation and fustian." In the eighteenth Century collections...

...verse by verse ; 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." A consciousness of his strength began to dawn upon him and to fill. his mind with a great ambition....

...Songs, and Hervey's 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...this practice much of my critic craft, such as it is. ... The first two books I ever read in private, and which gave me more pleasure than any two books...

...these books which was his vade mecum. He says: "I pored over them driving my cart, or walking to labor, song by song, verse by verse; carefully noting the...fustian. I am convinced I owe to this practice much of my critic-craft, such as it is." And he could not have learned it in a better way. But these old Scotch...

...pored over them driving my cart, song by song, verse by verse, carefully noting the true, tenderer sublime from affectation and fustian. I am convinced I owe to this practice much of my critic craft." At fifteen years of age, Robert Burns was his father's chief labourer, and he complains that his life...

...driving my cart, or walking to labor, song by song, verse by verse; carefully noting the true, the tender, or sublime, from affectation and fustian. I am convinced I owe to this practice much of my critic-craft, such as it is." During his fifteenth year, while engaged in the work of the harvest field,...