...for ever, I resolved to publish my poems. I weighed my productions as impartially as was in my jmwer: I thought they had merit; and it was a delicious idea...clever fellow, even though it should never reach my ears—a poor negro-driver; or perhaps a victim to that inhospitable clime, and Houu to the world of...

...Sad as was Burns's spirit, he had no misgivings as to the success of his poems. " It was," he says, "a delicious idea that I should be called a clever...and gone to the world of spirits. I can truly say that [before their publication] I had pretty nearly as high an idea of myself and of my works as I...

...before leaving my native country for ever, 1 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...

...leaving my native country forever," he says, " I resolved to publish my poems, and weighed my productions as impartially as was in my power. I thought they...called a clever fellow, even though it should never meet my ears." An impression of six hundred copies of the book was, accordingly, published at Kilmarnock....

...leaving my native country forever," he says, " I resolved to publish my poems, and weighed my productions as impartially as was in my power. I thought they...called a clever fellow, even though it should never meet my ears." An impression of six hundred copies of the book was, accordingly, published at Kilmarnock....

...Burns's career, we have his own history. " I weighed." he says in a letter to Dr. Moore, " my productions as impartially as was in my power. I thought they had merit ; and it was a delirious idea that I should be called a clever fellow, even though it should never reach my ears —...

...my native country for ever, I resolved to puhlish my poems. I weighed my productions as importially as was in my power : I thought they had merit ; and it was a delicious idea that I should Ы; called a clever fellow, even though it should never reach my í ars — a poor negrodriver,—...

...before leaving my native country forever, 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...

...forever, I resolved to publish my poems. I weighed my productions as impartially as was in my po\ver ; I thought they had merit, and it was a delicious idea...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...

...before leaving my native country forever, 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...