 | Robert Burns - 1887 - 400 pages
...writes: ' I had taken the last farewell of my few friends; my chest was on the road to Greenock, and I had composed the last song I should ever measure...schemes, by opening new prospects to my poetic ambition.' The song was prmted in the first Edinburgh edition. Page 247, col. i, line 1 . The ' Farewell ' was... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1887 - 730 pages
...uncoupled the merciless Eack of the law at my heels. I had taken the last farewell of my few 'iends ; my chest was on the road to Greenock : I had composed...schemes, by opening new prospects to my poetic ambition. The doctor belonged to a set ot critics for whose applause I had not dared to hope. His opinion, that... | |
 | Charles Rogers - 1891 - 412 pages
...unlookedfor and highly influential source. I had — he tells us — taken the last farewell of my friends ; my chest was on the road to Greenock. I...my schemes, by opening new prospects to my poetic ambition.1 The doctor belonged to a set of critics for whose applause I had not dared to hope. His... | |
 | Hugh Walker - 1893 - 274 pages
...the wind.' I had been for some days skulking from covert to covert, under all the terrors of a jail ; as some ill-advised people had uncoupled the merciless...schemes, by opening new prospects to my poetic ambition. The doctor belonged to a set of critics for whose applause I had not dared to hope. His 1 Burns to... | |
 | Hugh Walker - 1893 - 272 pages
...the wind.' I had been for some days skulking from covert to covert, under all the terrors of a jail ; as some ill-advised people had uncoupled the merciless...schemes, by opening new prospects to my poetic ambition. The doctor belonged to a set of critics for whose applause I had not dared to hope. His 1 Burns to... | |
 | James Craig Higgins - 1893 - 252 pages
...composed the last song I should ever measure in Caledonia—" The gloomy night is gathering fast"—when a letter from Dr. Blacklock to a friend of mine overthrew...schemes, by opening new prospects to my poetic ambition. The doctor belonged to a set of critics for whose applause I had not dared to hope. His opinion that... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1895 - 88 pages
...of my few friends ; my chest was on the way to Greenock ; I had composed the last song I ever should measure in Caledonia, " The gloomy night is gathering...schemes, by opening new prospects to my poetic ambition.' — Burns's Autobiography. The original reading of the last verse Carlyle quotes is, ' Farewell, the... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1895 - 300 pages
...of my few friends ; my chest was on the way to Greenock ; I had composed the last song I ever should measure in Caledonia, " The gloomy night is gathering...schemes, by opening new prospects to my poetic ambition.' — Burns's Autobiography. The original reading of the last verse Carlyle quotes is, ' Farewell, the... | |
 | Robert Burns, Alexander Smith - 1896 - 710 pages
...at my heels. I had taken the last farewell of my few friends; my chest was on the road to Grecnock ; I had composed the last song I should ever measure...schemes, by opening new prospects to my poetic ambition. The doctor belonged to a set of critics for whose applause I had not dared to hope. His opinion, that... | |
 | Robert Burns, Alexander Smith - 1896 - 710 pages
...my heels. I had taken the last farewell of my few friends ; my chest was on the road to Greenock ; 1 had composed the last song I should ever measure in...schemes, by opening new prospects to my poetic ambition. The doctor belonged to a set of critics for whose applause I had not dared to hope. His opinion, that... | |
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I had been for some days skulking from covert to covert, under all the terrors of a jail; as some ill-advised people had uncoupled the merciless pack of the law at my heels. I had taken the last farewell of my few friends; my chest was on the road to... 
