 | Allan Cunningham - 1825 - 756 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; and I had composed the last song I should ever measure in Caledonia— The gloomy night is gathering... | |
 | Allan Cunningham - 1825 - 388 pagina’s
...heels. I had taken the last farewell of my few friends ; my chest was on the road to Greenock ; and I had composed the last song I should ever measure...Caledonia — The gloomy night is gathering fast." Such is the history which Burns gives of this touching lyric— one of the most mournful of all his... | |
 | Robert Burns, Alfred Howard - 1826 - 226 pagina’s
...sculking 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...should ever measure in Caledonia, ' The gloomy night was gathering fast,' when a letter from Dr. Blacklock, to a friend of mine, overthrew all my schemes,... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1826 - 272 pagina’s
...of a jail; as some illadvised people had uncoupled the merciless pack of the law at my heels.* I bad taken the last farewell of my few friends; my chest was on the road to Gree-KII-I ; I had composed the last song I should evev measure in Caledonia. — The gloomy night... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1830 - 340 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...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, The gloomy night... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1831 - 484 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 farewell of my few friends ; my chest was on the road to Greenock ; I had composed the Tast" song I... | |
 | 1834 - 602 pagina’s
...skulking from covert to covert, under all the terrors of a gaol ; as some ill-advised people had uncoupled the merciless pack of the law at my heels. I had taken...Gloomy Night is Gathering Fast ; when a letter from Dr. Black lock to a friend of mine, overthrew all my schemes, by opening new prospects to my poetic ambition."... | |
 | Robert Burns, Allan Cunningham - 1834 - 368 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 raj' few friends : my chest was on the road to Greenock, and I had composed the last song I should... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1835 - 440 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...song I should ever measure in Caledonia, The gloomy nujht is gathering fast, when a letter from Dr Blacklock, to a friend of mine, overthrew all my schemes,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1835 - 592 pagina’s
...published within my memory." — " I had taken the last farewell of my few friends," says Burns; " my chest was on the road to Greenock ; I had composed the last song I should етег measure in Scotland — ' The Gloomy night is gathering fast ' — when a letter from Dr Blacklock... | |
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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... 
