 | David Irving - English poetry - 1804 - 524 pages
...which is most' calculated to fan the sparks of generous emulation. " This kind of life," says Burns, " the cheerless gloom of a hermit, with the unceasing...of a galley-slave, brought me to my .sixteenth year ; a little before which period I first committed the sin of rhyme." Love, he informs us, was the original... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1806 - 422 pages
...factor's insolent threatening letters, which used to set us all in tears. " This kind of life—the cheerless gloom of a hermit, with the unceasing moil...of a galleyslave, brought me to my sixteenth year; a little before which period I first committed the sin of Rhyme. You know our country custom of coupling... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1814 - 306 pages
...interesting. This kind of life, (says he, in his' letter to Dr. Moore,) the cheerless gloom of the hermit, with the unceasing moil of a galley-slave, brought me to my sixteenth year; a little before which period I first committed the sin of Rhyme. You know out country custom of coupling... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1816 - 714 pages
...the recollection of the s 1 factor's insolent threatening letters, which used to set us all in tears. This kind of life — the cheerless gloom of A hermit,...of a galleyslave, brought me to my sixteenth year ; a little before which period I first committed the sin of Rhyme. You know our country custom of coupling... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1816 - 342 pages
...recollection of the s 1 factor's insolent threatening letters, which used to set us all in tears. " This kind of life — the cheerless gloom of a hermit,...with the unceasing moil of a galley-slave, brought rile to my sixteenth year; a little before which period I first committed the sin of Rhyme. You know... | |
 | British prose literature - 1819 - 364 pages
...the recollection of the s 1 factor's insolent threatening letters, which used to set us all in tears. This kind of life — the cheerless gloom of a hermit,...of a galley-slave, brought me to my sixteenth year ; a little before which period I first committed the sin of Rhyme. You know our country custom of coupling... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1823 - 848 pages
...recollection of the s 1 factor's insolent threatening letters, which used to set us all in tears. " This kind of life — the cheerless gloom of a hermit,...unceasing moil of a galley-slave, brought me to my loth year ; a little before which period I first committed the sin of ryhme. You know our country custom... | |
 | 1824 - 312 pages
...recollection of the scoundrel factor's insolent threatening letters, which used to set us all in tears. " This kind of life, the cheerless gloom of a hermit...unceasing moil of a galley-slave, brought me to my 16th year; a little before which period I first committed the sin of rhyme. You know our country custom... | |
 | Robert Burns, Alfred Howard - Poetry - 1826 - 226 pages
...factor's insolent threatening letters, which used to set us all in tearS. " This kind of life—the cheerless gloom of a hermit, with the unceasing moil...a galley-slave, -brought me to my sixteenth year; a little before which period -I first committed the sin of rhyme. You know our country custom of coupling... | |
 | Constable and co, ltd - 1826 - 734 pages
...verse, and the occasion is thus described by himself in his letter to Moore. " This kind of life—the cheerless gloom of a hermit, with the unceasing moil...of a galley-slave, brought me to my sixteenth year ; a little before which period I first committed the sin of Rhyme. You know our country custom of coupling... | |
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This kind of life — the cheerless gloom of a hermit, with the unceasing moil of a galley-slave, brought me to my sixteenth year ; a little before which period I first committed the sin of rhyme. You know our country custom of coupling a man and woman... 
