 | 1828 - 722 pages
...credulity in his Heart. And so did our Peasant show himself among us ; ' a soul like an . Ko' li.iii harp, in whose strings the vulgar wind, as it passed...quarrelling with smugglers and vintners, computing excise dues upon tallow, and gauging alebarrels ! In such toils was that mighty Spirit sorrowfully... | |
 | Timothy Flint - 1830 - 696 pages
...generous credulity in his Heart. And so did cur Peasant show himself among us ; "a soul like an .ffiolian harp, in whose strings the vulgar wind, as it passed...into articulate melody." And this was he for whom tho world found no fitter business than quarrelling with smugglers and vintners, computing excise duties... | |
 | 1829 - 490 pages
...generous credulity in his heart. And so did our peasant show himself among us ; ' a soul like an jEolian harp, in whose strings the vulgar wind as it passed...quarrelling with smugglers and vintners, computing excise dues upon tallow, and gauging alebarrels ! In such toils was that mighty spirit sorrowiilly... | |
 | 1829 - 492 pages
...show himself among us ; ' a soul like an /Eoliai harp, in whose strings the vulgar wind as it pas.vi through them, changed itself into articulate melody....business than quarrelling with smugglers and vintners, imputing excise dues upon tallow, and gauging aleaarrels ! In such toils was that mighty spirit sorrowfully... | |
 | Richard Robert Madden - 1833 - 310 pages
...Edinburgh Review some time since, we marked the following striking sentences in relation to Burns : — " And this was he for whom the world found no fitter business than quarreling with smugglers and vinters, computing excise dues upon tallow, and gauging alebarrels! In... | |
 | 1835 - 932 pages
...generous credulity in his heart. And so did our peasant show himself among us; "a soul like an yEolian harp, in whose strings the vulgar wind, as it passed...quarrelling with smugglers and vintners, computing excise dues upon tallow, and gauging ale-barrels! In such toils was that mighty spirit sorrowfully... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1838 - 476 pages
...generous credulity in his Heart. And so did our Peasant show himself among us ; * a soul like an -iEolian harp, in whose strings the vulgar wind, as it passed...quarrelling with smugglers and vintners, computing excise dues upon tallow, and gauging alebarrels! In such toils was that mighty Spirit sorrowfully wasted... | |
 | Allan Cunningham - 1841 - 384 pages
...generous credulity in his Heart. And so did our Peasant show himself among us ; "a soul like an ^olian harp, in whose strings the vulgar wind, as it passed...quarrelling with smugglers and vintners, computing excise dues upon tallow, and guaging ale barrels ! In such toils was that mighty Spirit sorrowfully... | |
 | 1842 - 330 pages
...be a diligent and honest officer ! ' " " And this was he," says a writer in the Edinburgh Review, " this was he for whom the world found no fitter business...quarrelling with smugglers and vintners, computing excise dues upon tallow, and gauging alebarrels ! In such toils was that mighty spirit sorrowfully... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1845 - 594 pages
...generous credulity in his Heart. And so did our Peasant show himself among us ; "a soul like an . Knli.iu harp, in whose strings the vulgar wind, as it passed...quarrelling with smugglers and vintners, computing excise dues upon tallow, and gauging alebarrels ! In such toils was that mighty Spirit sorrowfully... | |
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... quick to learn'; a man of keen vision, before whom common disguises afforded no concealment. His understanding saw through the hollowness even of accomplished deceivers; but there was a generous credulity in his heart. And so did our Peasant show... 
