 I resolved to publish my poems. I weighed my productions as impartially as was in my power ; I thought they had merit; and it was a delicious idea that I should be called a clever fellow, even though it should never reach my ears...  The British Prose Writers... - Page 691819Full view - About this book
 | James Craig Higgins - 1893 - 252 pages
...to publish my poems. I weighed my productions as impartially as was in my power ; I thought they had merit ; and it was a delicious idea that I should...clever fellow, even though it should never reach my ears—a poor negro-driver; or perhaps a victim to that inhospitable clime, and gone to the world of... | |
 | John Morley - 1894 - 620 pages
...my poems. I weighed my productions as impartially as was in my power ; I thought they had merit ; 28 and it was a delicious idea that I should be called...the world of spirits ! I can truly say, that pauvre inconnu as I then was, I had pretty nearly as high an idea of rny works as I have at this moment, when... | |
 | Robert Burns, Alexander Smith - 1896 - 710 pages
...to publish my poems. I weighed my productions as impartially as was in my power ; I thought they had merit ; and it was a delicious idea that I should...the world of spirits ! I can truly say, that pauvre inconiiu as I then was, I had pretty nearly as high an idea of myself and of my works as I have at... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1896 - 462 pages
...as impartially as in my power ; I thought they had merit ; and 'twas a delicious idea that I would be called a clever fellow, even though it should never...Negro-driver, or perhaps a victim to that inhospitable clime gone to the world of Spirits.t — I can truly say, that pamre Inconnii as I then was, I had pretty... | |
 | Robert Burns, Alexander Smith - 1896 - 710 pages
...to publish my poems. I weighed my productions as impartially as was in my power ; 1 thought they had merit; and it was a delicious idea that I should be...clever fellow, even though it should never reach my ears—a poor negro-driver—or perhaps a victim to that inhospitable clime, and gone to the world... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1896 - 520 pages
...poems. I weighed my productions as impartially as in my power ; I thought they had merit ; and 'twas a delicious idea that I should be called a clever fellow, even tho' it should never reach my ears — a poor negro-driver — or perhaps gone to the world of spirits,... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1898 - 104 pages
...funds to pay his passage, he issued a small volume of poems. " It was a delicious idea," he wrote, " that I should be called a clever fellow, even though it should never reach my ears,—a poor negro-driver, or perhaps a victim of that inhospitable clime, and gone to the world... | |
 | 1899 - 666 pages
...to publish my poems. I weighed my productions as impartially as was in my power ; I thought they had merit ; and it was a delicious idea that I should...the world of spirits ! I can truly say, that pauvre inconnu as I then was, I had pretty nearly as high an idea of my works as I have at this moment, when... | |
 | John Campbell Shairp - 1901 - 224 pages
...my poems. I weighed my productions as impartially as was in my power ; I thought they had merit ; 28 and it was a delicious idea that I should be called...the world of spirits ! I can truly say, that pauvre inconnu as I then was, I had pretty nearly as high an idea of my works as I have at this moment, when... | |
 | Henry Grey Graham - 1901 - 536 pages
...before. " I weighed my productions as impartially as in my power," says Burns : " I thought they had merit, and it was a delicious idea that I should be...should never reach my ears — a poor negro-driver — gone to the world of spirits perhaps, a victim to that inhospitable clime. I was pretty sure my... | |
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