 | EDWIN WATTS CHUBB - 1910 - 426 pages
...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 it was a delicious idea that I should be called 54 a clever fellow, even though it should never reach my ears—a poor negro-driver, or perhaps a victim... | |
 | Robert Burns, Alexander Smith - Hymns - 1910 - 706 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 had merit ; and it was a delicious idea that 1 should be called a clever fellow, even though it should never reach my ears — a poor negro-driver... | |
 | Henry Van Dyke - Authorship - 1911 - 444 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... | |
 | Edwin Watts Chubb - English literature - 1914 - 488 pages
...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 my works as I have at this... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1914 - 724 pages
...country for ever, I resolved to publisi my poems. I weighed my productions as impartially as was in m power ; I thought they had merit ; and it was a delicious idea that should be called a clever fellow, even though it should never reach m; ears — a poor negro-driver... | |
 | Andrew Herbert Dakers - Poets, Scottish - 1923 - 254 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, I had pretty nearly as high an idea of myself and of my works as... | |
 | Ralph Knight - Literary Criticism - 1959 - 246 pages
...productions as impartially as in my power; I thought they had merit; and 'twas a delicious idea that I would be called a clever fellow, even though it should never...Negro-driver, or perhaps a victim to that inhospitable clime gone to the world of spirits. I can truly say that pauvre inconnu as I then was, I had pretty nearly... | |
 | John Cairney - Biography & Autobiography - 2000 - 196 pages
...impartially as in my power; l thought they had merit; and 'twas a delicious idea that l should be thought a clever fellow, even though it should never reach...negro-driver, or perhaps a victim to that inhospitable clime gone to the world of the spirits. l can only say that as a pauvre lnconnu, as l then was, l had nearly... | |
 | Jeffrey Skoblow - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 284 pages
...my power for Jamaica," he tells Dr. Moore, 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... | |
 | James Buchan - History - 2009 - 468 pages
...he was writing poems that he knew were good enough to print, and "twas a delicious idea that I would be called a clever fellow, even though it should never...Negro-driver, or perhaps a victim to that inhospitable clime.'78 On 25 June he appeared before the Kirk Session and over three Sundays did penance for fornication... | |
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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... 
