 | Sir Walter Scott - 1870 - 456 pagina’s
...respect of persons, his patched cloak giving him the privilege of the ancient jester. To be a gude crack, that is, to possess talents for conversation,...afforded, seems to have looked forward with gloomy f,rmness to the possibility of himself becoming one day or other a member of their itinerant society.... | |
 | Robert Burns, Alexander Melville Bell - 1876 - 184 pagina’s
...respect of persons, his patched cloak giving him the privilege of the ancient jester. "To be a 'guid crack' (that is, 'to possess talents for conversation...; and Burns, who delighted in the amusement their discourses afforded, seems to have looked forward with gloomy firmness to the possibility of himself... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1877 - 462 pagina’s
...respect of persons, his patched cloak giving him the privilege of the ancient jester. To be a gude crack, that is, to possess talents for conversation,...delighted in the amusement their discourse afforded, seems lo have looked forward with gloomy firmness to the possibility of himself becoming one day or other... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1880 - 1024 pagina’s
...any respect of persons, his patched cloak giving him the privilege of the ancient jester. To be a ywd crack — that is, to possess talents for conversation...trade of a 'puir body" of the more esteemed class; and llunn, who delighted in the amusement their discourses afEPISTLE TO DAVIE. [1786. What though, like... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1877 - 682 pagina’s
...respect of persons, his patched cloak giving him the [irivilege of the ancient jester. To be a cpifie crack, that is, to possess talents for conversation, was essential to the trade of a " puir body" <-f the more esteemed class : and Burns, who delighted in the amusement thoir discourse afforded, seems... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1883 - 956 pagina’s
...Burns, who delighted in the amusement their discourse afforded, seems to have looked forward witii gloomy firmness to the possibility of himself becoming...their itinerant society. In his poetical works, it it alluded to so often, as perJtaps to indicate that he considered the consummation as not utterly... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1896 - 520 pagina’s
...cloak giving him the privilege of the ancient jester. To be a gutd crack— that is, to possess Ulents for conversation — was essential to the trade of...; and Burns, who delighted in the amusement their discourses afforded, seems to have looked forward with gloomy firmness to the possibility of himself... | |
 | 1908 - 570 pagina’s
...his patched cloak giving him the privilege of the ancient jester. To be a guid cracker — that isi to possess talents for conversation — was essential...the trade of a ' puir body ' of the more esteemed cla^s ; and Burns, who delighted in the amusement their discourses afforded, seems to have looked forward... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1901 - 368 pagina’s
...respect of persons, his patched cloak giving him the privilege of the ancient jester. To be a gude crack, that is, to possess talents for conversation,...possibility of himself becoming one day or other a member of then* itinerant society. In his poetical works, it is alluded to so often, as perhaps to indicate that... | |
 | Robert H. Bremner - 260 pagina’s
...my sodger laddie.13 Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832), noting Burns's affinity for beggars, said that he "seems to have looked forward with gloomy firmness to the possibility of himself becoming one day or another a member of their iterant society." Burns ended the poem with a rousing chorus in which the... | |
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... of the more esteemed class ; and Burns, who delighted in the amusement their discourse afforded, seems to have looked forward with gloomy firmness to the possibility of himself becoming one day or other a member of their itinerant society. In his... 
