 | Robert Burns, James Currie - 1870 - 642 pagina’s
...skulking from covert to covert, under all the teirors of a jail ; as some ill-advised people had unconpled the merciless pack of the law at my heels. I had taken the last farewell of my friends; my chest was on the road to Grcenock; I had composed the last song I shonld ever measure in... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1871 - 516 pagina’s
...executioner."— Letter to Aiken. SONG: Farewell, the bonie Banks o' Ayr,— (Page 1g3, Vol. I ) " I had taken the last farewell of my few friends :...the last song I- should ever measure in Caledonia, when Dr. Blacklock's opinion that I would meet with encouragement in Edinburgh for a second edition,... | |
 | 1872 - 638 pagina’s
...the torrid zone, I took a steerage passage in the first ship that was to sail from the Clyde. * * * I had taken the last farewell of my few friends. My chest was on the way to Greenock. I had composed the last song I should ever measure in Caledonia— "Tho gloomy night... | |
 | Austin Dobson - 1874 - 332 pagina’s
...skulking from covert to covert, under all the terrors of a jail ; as some ill-advised people had uncoupled the merciless pack of the law at my heels. I had taken...gathering fast — when a letter from Dr. Blacklock [the blind poet] to a friend of mine overthrew all my schemes, by opening new prospects to my poetic... | |
 | James M'Kie - 1874 - 104 pagina’s
...THOMAS BLACKLOCK'S letter to the Rev. George Laurie for Burns to visit Edinburgh, 1786. " I had taken my last farewell of my few friends, my chest was on the...composed the last song I should ever measure in Caledonia when Dr. Blacklock's opinion that 1 should meet with encouragement in Edinburgh for a second edition,... | |
 | James M'Kie - 1874 - 94 pagina’s
...THOMAS BLACKLOCK'S letter to the Rev. George Laurie for Burns to visit Edinburgh, 1786. " I had taken my last farewell of my few friends, my chest was on the...composed the last song I should ever measure in Caledonia when Dr. Blacklock's opinion that I should meet with encouragement in Edinburgh for a second edition,... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1876 - 540 pagina’s
...the executioner."—Letter to Aiken. SONO: FareueU, the bonie Hunts o' Ayr.—(l'ago 198, Vol. I.) " I had taken the last farewell of my few friends: my...the last song I should ever measure in Caledonia, when Dr. Blacklock's opinion that I would meet with encouragement in Edinburgh for a second edition,... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1877 - 480 pagina’s
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 | Archibald R. Adamson - 1879 - 298 pagina’s
...skulking from covert to covert, under all the terrors of a jail, as some ill-advised people had uncoupled the merciless pack of the law at my heels. I had taken...few friends ; my chest was on the road to Greenock; . . . when a letter from Dr Blaeklock to a friend of mine overthrew all my schemes, by opening new... | |
 | John Campbell Shairp - 1879 - 232 pagina’s
...pack of the law at my heels. I had taken the last farewell of my friends ; my chest was on the way to Greenock ; I had composed the last song I should...gloomy night is gathering fast,' when a letter from Dr. Blackwood to a friend of mine overthrew all my schemes, by opening up new prospects to my poetic ambition."... | |
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I had been for some days skulking from covert to covert, under all the terrors of a jail ; as some ill-advised people had uncoupled the merciless pack of the law at my heels. I had taken the last farewell of my few friends ; my chest was on the road to... 
