 | John Alexander Joyce - 1910 - 156 pages
...as some ill-advised people had uncoupled the merciless pack of the law at my heels. I had taken the farewell of my few friends; my chest was on the road...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 - 1910 - 148 pages
...says: "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." Dr. Thomas Blacklock was a divine and poet in Edinburgh, to whom a copy of Burns's poems had been sent.... | |
 | Henry Van Dyke - 1911 - 444 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 opinion, that... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1914 - 152 pages
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 | Andrew Herbert Dakers - 1923 - 258 pages
...people had uncoupled the merciless pack of the law at my heels. I had taken the last farewell of my friends ; my chest was on the road to Greenock; I...schemes by opening new prospects to my poetic ambition." Thus the greatest event of the poet's life, the publication of his first poems was the direct result... | |
 | Robert Burns - 2003 - 660 pages
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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... 
