 I may truly say, Virgilium vidi tantum. I was a lad of fifteen in 1786-7, 20 when he came first to Edinburgh, but had sense and feeling enough to be much interested in his poetry, and would have given the world to know him : but I had very little acquaintance...  Critical and Miscellaneous Essays - Page 315by Thomas Carlyle - 1838 - 454 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1828 - 722 pages
...Burns," writes Sir Walter, ' I may truly say, Virgilivm ridi tantum. I was a lad of fifteen in 1786-7, when he came first to Edinburgh, but had sense and...enough to be much interested in his poetry, and would haye given the world to know him ; but I had very little acquaintance with any literary people, and... | |
 | Constable and co, ltd - 1826 - 734 pages
...Scott:— : " As for Burns, I may truly say, Virgilium vidi tantum. I was a lad of fifteen in 1786-7, when he came first to Edinburgh, but had sense and...any literary people, and still less with the gentry • Morrison's Bums, vol. i. pp. Ixxi. Ujcii. •of the west country, the two sets that he most frequented.... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1828 - 324 pages
...Scott ; — . " As for Burns, I may truly say, Virgilium vidi tantum. I was al;id of fifteen in 1786-7, when he came first to Edinburgh, but had sense and...any literary people, and still less with the gentry • Morrison's Bums, vol. i. pp. Ixxi. Ixxii. of the west country, the two seta that he most frequented.... | |
 | 1828 - 268 pages
...truly say, VtrgiKum vidi tanturn. I was a lad of fifteen in 1786-7, when he came to Edinburgh, but bad sense and feeling enough to be much interested in...little acquaintance with any literary people, and si; il less with the gentry of the west country, the two sets that he most frequented. Mr. Thomas Grierson... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1830 - 340 pages
...Scott : — " As for Burns, I may truly say, Virgiliuih tidi tnntnm. I was a lad of fifteen in 1786-7, when he came first to Edinburgh, but had sense and...little acquaintance with any literary people, and less with the gentry of the west country, the two sets that he most frequented. Mr Thomas Grierson... | |
 | 1835 - 842 pages
...say, ' Virgiliuni vidi tantum.' I was a lad of fifteen in 1786-7, when he came first to Edinborough, but had sense and feeling enough to be much interested...little acquaintance with any literary people, and still loss with the gentry of the west country, the two sets that he most frequented." "As it was, I saw... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1837 - 318 pages
...for Burns," (he writes,) " I may truly say, Virgilium vidi tantum. I was a lad of fifteen in 1786-7, when he came first to Edinburgh, but had sense and...acquaintance with any literary people, and still less with * Life of Scott, by Mr. Allan, p. 53. the gentry of the west country, the two sets that he most frequented.... | |
 | James Currie - 1838 - 92 pages
...say, Virgttmm vidi tantum. I was a lad of fifteen in 1786-7, when he came first to Edinburgh, but bad sense and feeling enough to be much interested in...with the gentry of the west country, the two sets whom he most frequented. Mr T. Orierson was at that time a clerk of my father's. He knew Burns, and... | |
 | Allan Cunningham - 1841 - 384 pages
...be rewarded/' " I was a lad of fifteen," says Sir Walter Scott, " in 1786-7, when Burns first came to Edinburgh; but had sense and feeling enough to...poetry, and would have given the world to know him. . . . As it was, I saw him one day at the late venerable Professor Ferguson's, where there were several... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1831 - 622 pages
...Walter Scott wag perceived by Robert Burns. " I was a lad of fifteen," says the former, when he came to Edinburgh, but had sense and feeling enough to...poetry, and would have given the world to know him. I saw him accidently at Professor Ferguson's : the оц!у thing I remember which was remarkable in... | |
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