 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1831 - 338 pages
...Jamaica. But before leaving my native land, I resolved to publish my poems. I weighed my productions as impartially as was in my power : I thought they...clever fellow, even though it should never reach my ears-a poor negro-driver — or, perhaps, a victim to that inhospitable clime, and gone to the world... | |
 | Robert Burns, Allan Cunningham - Ballads, Scots - 1834 - 368 pages
...before leaving my native country for ever, I resolved to publish my poems. I weighed my productions as impartially as was in my power ; I thought they...and gone to the world of spirits ! I can truly say, that pauvre inconnu as I then was, I had pretty nearly as high an idea of myself and of my works as... | |
 | Robert Burns - Ballads, Scots - 1834 - 420 pages
...Burns at this moment, we have his own account to Moore : — " I weighed," said he, " my productions as impartially as was in my power. I thought they...inhospitable clime, and gone to the world of spirits. To know myself had been all along my constant study ; I weighed myself alone, I balanced myself with... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1834 - 360 pages
...before leaving my native country for ever, I resolved to publish my poems. I weighed my productions as impartially as was in my power ; I thought they...clever fellow, even though it should never reach my ears—a poor negrodriver—or perhaps a victim to that inhospitable clime, and gone to the world of... | |
 | Robert Burns - Poetry, Modern - 1834 - 206 pages
...productions as impartially as was in my power: 1 thought they had merit; and it was a delicious idea, that 1 should be called a clever fellow, even though it should...a. poor negro-driver; or perhaps a victim to that inhotpitable clime, and gone to the world of spirite ! I can truly say, that pauvre inconnu as I the"... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1835 - 440 pages
...ever, I resolved to puhlish my poems. I weighed my productions as impartially as was in my powtr : I thought they had merit ; and it was a delicious idea that I should he called a clever fellow, even though it should never reach my ears — a poor negrodriver,— or... | |
 | 1836 - 600 pages
...leaving my native country for ever,' he says, ' I resolved to publish my poems. I weighed my productions as impartially as was in my power : I thought they...-fellow, even though it should never reach my ears.' An impression of 600 copies of the book accordingly was printed at Kilmarnock. This was in the autumn... | |
 | Silas Jones - Phrenology - 1836 - 348 pages
...'Before leaving my native country for ever, I resolved to publish my poems. I weighed my productions as impartially as was in my power : I thought they...fellow, even though it should never reach my ears." He writes to Mrs. Dunlop : " I am fully persuaded that there is not any class of mankind so feelingly... | |
 | Phrenology - 1836 - 694 pages
...Before leaving my native country for ever, I resolved to publish my poems. I weighed my productions as impartially as was in my power : I thought they...fellow, even though it should never reach my ears." He writes to Mrs Dunlop : " I am fully persuaded that there is not any class of mankind so feelingly... | |
 | Robert Burns, John Gibson Lockhart - Scotland - 1837 - 628 pages
...Jamaica. But before leaving my native land, I resolved to publish my Poems. I weighed my productions as impartially as was in my power : I thought they...and gone to the world of spirits. I can truly say that, pauvre inconnu as I then was, 1 bad pretty nearly as high an idea of myself and of my works as... | |
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I resolved to publish my poems. I weighed my productions as impartially as was in my power ; I thought they had merit ; and it was a delicious idea that I should be called a clever fellow, even though it should never reach my ears... 
