 | Robert Burns, James Currie - Scotland - 1814 - 502 pages
...in the rank whieh she holds in life, hut in the dress and eharaeter of a eottager. No. XXVIII. Mr. BURNS to Mr. THOMSON. July, 1793. I assure you, my dear sir, that you truly hurt me with your peeuniary pareel. It degrades me m my own eyes. However, to return it would sa»our of aflfeetation... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1818 - 346 pages
...her in the rank whieh she holds in life, hut in the dress and eharaeter of a eottager. No. xx\n1. Mr. BURNS to Mr. THOMSON. July, 1793. I assure you, my dear sir, that you truly hurt me with your peeuniary pareel. It degrades me in my own eyes. Howevsr, to return it would savour of affeetation... | |
 | Joseph Robertson - Poets, Scottish - 1822 - 430 pages
...them all, and to work himself into a fever of malignant benevolence to relieve the general tameuess of his performance." The following is the letter by...1793. " I ASSURE you, my dear Sir, that you truly burt me with your pecuniary parcel. It degrades me in my own eyes. However, to return it, would savour... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - Poets, Scottish - 1828 - 324 pages
...do, our correspondence is at an end." To which letter (it enclosed L.5) Barns thus replies : — " I assure you, my dear sir, that you truly hurt me with your pecuniary parcel. It degrades roe in my own eyes. However, to return it would savour of affectation ; but as to any more traffic... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1831 - 338 pages
...do, our correspondence is at an end." To which letter (it inclosed £5) Burns thus replies : — " I assure you, my dear sir, that you truly hurt me...degrades me in my own eyes. However, to return it would savor of affectation ; but as to any more traffic of that debtor and creditor kind, I swear by that... | |
 | Robert Burns, Allan Cunningham - Ballads, Scots - 1834 - 370 pages
...the maut wi' me," — it occurs oftener than once in the manuscript. — ED.] No. XXVIII. BURNS TO G. THOMSON. July, 1793. I ASSURE you, my dear Sir, that you truly liurt me with your pecuniary parcel. It degrades me in my own eyes. However, to return it would savour... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1836 - 528 pages
...do, our correspondence is at an end.' Burns, in his reply to this communication says, ' I assure you that you truly hurt me with your pecuniary parcel....degrades me in my own eyes.' However, to return it, he adds, would savour of affectation ; hut he protests in the strongest terms against ' any more traffic... | |
 | 1836 - 600 pages
...do, our correspondence is at an end.' Burns, in his reply to this communication says, ' I assure you that you truly hurt me with your pecuniary parcel....degrades me in my own eyes.' However, to return it, he adds, would savour of affectation ; but he protests in the strongest terms against ' any more traffic... | |
 | Robert Burns, John Gibson Lockhart - Scotland - 1837 - 628 pages
...in the dren and character of i cottager. No. XXVIIL THE POET TO MR. THOMSON. July, 1793. I AiitiME you. my dear Sir, that you truly hurt me with your pecuniary parcel. It degrade« me in my own eyes. However, to return it would aarour of affectation ; but as to any more... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1838 - 750 pages
...to whom." In answer to a letter from Mr. Thomson.enclosing him 5I. for some of his songs, he rays, " I assure you, my dear sir, that you truly hurt me with your pecuniary parcel. It degrades me in mv own eyes. However, to return it would savour of affectation ; but, as to any more traffic of that... | |
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I assure you, my dear sir, that you truly hurt me with your pecuniary parcel. It degrades me in my own eyes. 
