 | 1883 - 778 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 last song I should ever measure... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1883 - 586 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 in... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1885 - 290 pagina’s
...great part of August, "skulking from covert to covert, under all the terrors of a jail," he says, " I had taken the last farewell of my few friends ;...chest was on the road to Greenock ; I had composed a song — ' The gloomy night is gathering fast,' which was to be the last effort of my muse in Caledonia,... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1882 - 1134 pagina’s
...skulking from covert to covert, under all the terrors of a jail, as some ill-advised people had uncoupled wned with a peculiar diadem tho last farewell of my friends; my chest was on the ro:ul toGreenock; I had composed Ihe last song... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1887 - 400 pagina’s
...edition. Page 2#b, col. /, line /5. In the autobiographical sketch forwarded to Dr. Moore, Burns writes: ' 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 in Caledonia — The gloomy night is gathering... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1887 - 730 pagina’s
...covert, under all the terrors of a jail ; as some ill-advised people had uncoupled the merciless Eack of the law at my heels. I had taken the last farewell of my few 'iends ; my chest was on the road to Greenock : I had composed the last song I should ever measure... | |
 | James Craig Higgins - 1893 - 252 pagina’s
...unlooked-for and highly influential source. • I had—he tells us—taken the last farewell of my friends ; my chest was on the road to Greenock. I...measure in Caledonia—" The gloomy night is gathering fast"—when a letter from Dr. Blacklock to a friend of mine overthrew all my schemes, by opening new... | |
 | John Dawson Ross - 1893 - 274 pagina’s
...skulking from covert to covert, under all the terrors of a jail, as some illadvised people had uncoupled the merciless pack of the law at my heels. I had taken a last farewell of my friends, my chest was on its way to Greenock, I had composed the last song I... | |
 | John Morley - 1894 - 620 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 last song I should ever measure in... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1895 - 88 pagina’s
...the wind." I had been for some days skulking from covert to covert, under all the terrors of a jail. 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 ever should measure in Caledonia, " The gloomy night... | |
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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... 
