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" Scotch school, /'. e. none of your modern agriculturists, who keep labourers for their drudgery, but the douce gudeman who held his own plough. There was a strong expression of sense and shrewdness in all his lineaments ; the eye alone, I think, indicated... "
The Works of Robert Burns: Containing His Life - Page xxviii
by Robert Burns - 1849 - 425 pages
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Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart, Volume 1

John Gibson Lockhart - Authors, Scottish - 1837 - 608 pages
...poet, had I not known what he was, for a very sagacious country farmer of the old Scotch school — te none of your modern agriculturists, who keep labourers...and temperament. It was large and of a dark cast, and glowed (I say literally glowed) when he spoke with feeling or interest. I never saw such another...
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Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart, Volume 1

John Gibson Lockhart - Authors, English - 1837 - 318 pages
...country farmer of the old Scotch school — te none of your modern agriculturists, who keep laborers for their drudgery, but the douce gudeman who held...and temperament. It was large and of a dark cast, and glowed (I say literally glowed) when he spoke with feeling or interest. I never saw such another...
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Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart, Volume 1

John Gibson Lockhart - Authors, Scottish - 1837 - 450 pages
...your modern agriculturists, who keep labourers for their drudgery, but the douce gudeman who VOL. i. M held his own plough. There was a strong expression...and temperament. It was large and of a dark cast, and glowed (I say literally glowed) when he spoke with feeling or interest. I never saw such another...
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Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart, Volume 1

John Gibson Lockhart - Authors, Scottish - 1837 - 452 pages
...gudeman who VOL. I. M held his own plough. There was a strong expression of sense and shrewdness'in all his lineaments; the eye alone, I think, indicated...and temperament. It was large and of a dark cast, and glowed (I say literally glowed) when he spoke with feeling or interest. I never saw such another...
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The Romance of Biography: Or, Memoirs of Women Loved and ..., Volume 2

Mrs. Jameson (Anna) - Women in literature - 1837 - 382 pages
...received part of its effect, perhaps, from one's knowledge of his extraordinary talents ; * * * his eye alone, I think, indicated the poetical character...; it was large, and of a dark cast, which glowed, (I say, literally, glowed) when he spoke with feeling and interest;"—" his address to females was...
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Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart, Volume 1

John Gibson Lockhart - Authors, Scottish - 1837 - 454 pages
...poet, had I not known what he was, for a very sagacious country farmer of the old Scotch school — ie none of your modern agriculturists, who keep labourers for their drudgery, but the douce gudeman who VOL. i. M held his own plough. There was a strong expression of sense and shrewdness in all his lineaments...
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Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volume 1

Thomas Carlyle - German literature - 1838 - 476 pages
...school, ie none of your modem agriculturists who keep laborers for their drudgery, but the ilmice gvdeman who held his own plough. There was a strong expression...temperament It was large, and of a dark cast, which glowed (I say literally glowed) when he spoke with feeling or interest I never saw such another eye in a human...
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The Life of Robert Burns: With a Criticism on His Writings ...

James Currie - 1838 - 92 pages
...is, none of your modern agriculturists, who keep labourers for their drndgery, but the douce guidman who held his own plough. There was a strong expression...character and temperament. It was large, and of a cast, which glowed II say literally glowedI when he spoke with feeling or interest. I never saw such...
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Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart, Volume 1

John Gibson Lockhart - Authors, Scottish - 1839 - 422 pages
...occur in a half-forgotten poem of Langhome's, called by the unpromising title of ' The Justice of the Peace.' I whispered my information to a friend present,...and temperament. It was large, and of a dark cast, and glowed (I say literally glowed) when he spoke with feeling or interest. I never saw such another...
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Memoirs of the life of sir Walter Scott [by J.G. Lockhart].

John Gibson Lockhart - 1839 - 426 pages
...poet, had I not known what he was, for a very sagacious country farmer of the old Scotch school — ie none of your modern agriculturists, who keep labourers...and temperament. It was large, and of a dark cast, and glowed (I say literally glowed) when he spoke with feeling or interest. I never saw such another...
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