 The collection of songs was my vade mecum. I pored over them, driving my cart, or walking to labour, song by song, verse by verse ; carefully noting the true tender, or sublime, from affectation and fustian. I am convinced I owe to this practice much...  Annual Register of World Events - Page 3261801Full view - About this book
 | Robert Burns - English letters - 1859 - 736 pages
....English Songs, and Hervcys Mediations, had formed the whole of my reading. The colleetion of songs was my vade mecum. I pored over them driving my cart, or walking to labour, song by song, verse by verse — carefully noting the true, tender, or sublime, from affeetation and... | |
 | Robert Burns, James Currie - 1859 - 284 pages
...English Songs, and Sergey's Meditations, had formed the whole of my reading. The collection of songs was my vade mecum. I pored over them driving my cart, or walking to labor, song by song, verse by verse ; carefully noting the true, tender, or sublime, from affectation... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1865 - 594 pages
...Bible," Allan Ramsay's Works, and a collection of English songs. " The collection of songs," he adds, " was my vade mecum. I pored over them driving my cart, or walking to labour, song by song, verse by verse, carefully noting the true tender or sublime, from affectation and fustian.... | |
 | Robert Burns, Alexander Smith - 1868 - 688 pages
...English Songs, and Hervey's Meditations, had formed the whole of my reading. The collection of songs was my vade mecum. I pored over them, driving my cart, or walking to labour, song by song, verse by verse ; carefully noting the true, tender, or sublime, from affectation and... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1876 - 540 pages
...factor's insolent, threatening letters which used to set us all in tears. " A collection of English songs was my vade mecum. I pored over them driving my cart, or walking to labour —song by song—verse by verse; carefully noting the true, tender, or sublime, from affectation and... | |
 | John Campbell Shairp - 1879 - 230 pages
...the staple of their reading. Above all there was a collection of songs, of which Burns says, " This was my vade mecum. I pored over them driving my cart, or walking to labour, song by song, verse by verse ; carefully noting the true, tender, or* sublime, from affectation and... | |
 | Maude Gillette Phillips - English literature - 1885 - 648 pages
...fields and meadows. Nor were books entirely abandoned ; of a certain collection of songs he says, " This was my vade mecum. I pored over them driving my cart or walking to labor, song by song, verse by verse, carefully noting the true, tender, or sublime from affectation... | |
 | Maude Gillette Phillips - English literature - 1885 - 614 pages
...fields and meadows. Nor were books entirely abandoned ; of a certain collection of songs he says, " This was my vade mecum. I pored over them driving my cart or walking to labor, spng by song, verse by verse, carefully noting the true, tender, or sublime from affectation... | |
 | Thomas Hutchinson - 1887 - 74 pages
...an 15 Englishman, am glad to note, a select collection of English songs, which he tells us was his vade mecum. "I pored over them, driving my cart, or walking to labour, song by song, verse by verse ; carefully noting the true tender, or sublime, from affectation aud fustian."... | |
 | Charles Rogers - 1891 - 412 pages
...Englwh Songs, and Hervey's Meditations, had formed the whole of my reading. The collection of Bongs was my vade mecum. I pored over them driving my cart, or walking to labour, song by song, verse by verse, carefully noting the true, tender, or sublime from affectation or fustian.... | |
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