| Allan Cunningham, Charles Mackay - 1879 - 628 pagina’s
...had taken," says Burns, " the last farewell of my friends, my chest was on the road to Greenock, and I had composed the last song I should ever measure in Caledonia : ' The gloomy night is gath'ring taxi.' "] THE gloomy night is gath'ring fast, Loud roars the wild inconstant blast ; You... | |
| Henry Norman Hudson - 1880 - 738 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 the last farewell of my few friends ; my che>t was en the road to Greenock ; I had composed the last'song I should ever measure in Caledonia,... | |
| Alfred Hix Welsh - 1880 - 182 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 the last farewell of my friends ; my chest was on the road to Greenock ; I had composed the last song 1 should ever measure... | |
| Robert Burns - 1881 - 582 pagina’s
...the terrors of a jail; as some illadvised p«opfc had uncoupled the merciless pack of the law at mv heels. I had taken the last farewell of my few friends ; my chest was on the road to Oreenock ; I had composed the last song I should ever measure in Caledonia, 'The Gloomy Night is Gathering... | |
| Henry Norman Hudson - 1882 - 720 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...farewell of my few friends ; my chest was on the road to Greenoek ; I had composed the last song I should ever measure in Caledonia, — 'The gloomy night is... | |
| 1882 - 780 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 the last farewell of my friends ; my chest was on the way to Greenock ; I had composed the lost song I should ever measure... | |
| Robert Burns - 1882 - 634 pagina’s
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| John Gibson Lockhart - 1882 - 380 pagina’s
...my heels. I had taken the last farewell of my few friends ; my chest was on the way to Grreenock ; I had composed the last song I should ever measure in Caledonia, ' The gloomy night ia gathering fast,' when a letter from Dr. Blacklock to a friend of mine, overthrew all my schemes,... | |
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