 | 1821 - 970 pages
...him what he thought of it. ' I dinna ken, man',' replied he; ' I have read it all through, but canna say that I understand it; it is the most confused book that ever I saw in my life !'" [pp. xv. xvi.] The first time he attempted to write verses was in the vear... | |
 | James Hogg - 1821 - 436 pages
...him what he thought of it. " I dinna ken, man," replied he ; "I have read it all through, but canna say that I understand it ; it is the most confused book that ever I saw in my life !" The late Mrs Laidlaw of Willenslee took some notice of me, and frequently... | |
 | 1822 - 394 pages
...asked him what he thought of it ' I dinna ken, man/ replied he, ' I have read it all through, but canna say that I understand it; it is the most confused book that ever I saw in my life !' ANECDOTE. The late Rev. R. Imrie, of Auchterarder, in North Britain, exhibited... | |
 | Thousand notable things - 1822 - 604 pages
...him what he thought of it. "I dinna ken, man," replied he, " I have read it all through, but canna say that I understand it ; it is the most confused book that ever I saw in my life !" 73. The Clown puzzled. — A boy observing a country clown riding into the... | |
 | James Hogg - 1832 - 334 pages
...same predicament with the man of Eskdale muir, who borrowed Bailey's dictionary from his neighbor. Oil returning it, the lender asked him what he thought...the most confused book that I ever saw in my life.' " Young Hogg's literary attainments will be illustrated still more strikingly by the following confession:... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth - 1835 - 524 pages
...neighbor. On returning it, the lender asked him what he thought of it. 'I don't know,' replied lie ; ' I have read it all through, but cannot say that I...life.' " One anecdote more will complete the picture of liis mental attainments at that period. "To give you some farther idea of the progress I had made in... | |
 | James Hogg - 1840 - 376 pages
...him what he thought of it. " I dinna ken, man," replied he ; I have read it all through, but canna say that I understand it ; it is the most confused book that ever I saw in my life !" The late Mrs Laidlaw of Willenslee took some notice of me, and frequently... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Henry Vethake - 1851 - 618 pages
...same predicament with the man of Eskdale muir, who borrowed Bailey's Dictionary from his neighbor. On returning it, the lender asked him what he thought...at that period. "To give you some farther idea of ihe progress I had made in literature, I was, about this time, obliged to write a letter to my elder... | |
 | James Hogg - 1852 - 406 pages
...him what he thought of it. " I dinna ken, man," replied he ; I have read it all through, but canna say that I understand it ; it is the most confused book that ever I saw in my life !" The late Mrs Laidlaw of Willenslee took some notice of me, and frequently... | |
 | James Thomson - 1896 - 692 pages
...him what he thought of it. ' I dinna ken, man,' replied he ; 'I have read it all through, but canna say that I understand it ; it is the most confused book that ever I saw in my life ! ' . . . Mrs. Laidlaw also gave me sometimes the newspapers, which I pored on... | |
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I got through both works, I found myself much in the same predicament with the man of Eskdalemuir, who had borrowed Bailey's Dictionary from his neighbour. On returning it, the lender asked him what he thought of it. 
