 | Robert Burns, James Currie - 1869 - 624 pages
...by men who had Greek and Latin ; but my girl sung u song, which was said to be composed by a small country laird's son, on one of his father's maids, with whom he was in love I and I saw no reason why I might not rhyme as well as ho : for, excepting that he could smear sheep,... | |
 | Robert Burns, James Currie - 1870 - 642 pages
...by men who had Greek and Latin ; but my girl sung a song, which was said to be composed by a small country laird's son, on one of his father's maids,...reason why I might not rhyme as well as he : for, excepting that he could smear sheep, and cast peats, his father living in the moorlands, he had no... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1870 - 312 pages
...composed by men who had Greek and Latin; but my girl sung a song, which was said to be composed by a small country laird's son, on one of his father's maids,...reason why I might not rhyme as well as he ; for, excepting that he could swear sheep, and cast peals, his father living in the moor-lands, he liad no... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1870 - 652 pages
...Greek and Latin ; but my girl sang a song, which was said to be composed by a small country laird s son, on one of his father's maids, with whom he was...no reason why I might not rhyme as well as he; for, excepting that he could smear sheep, and cast peats, his father living in the moorlands, he had no... | |
 | 1872 - 830 pages
...binding, as he cut it, the rustling poppy-mingled grain. She "sang sweetly " a song " composed by a small country laird's son on one of his father's maids, with whom he was in love ;" and the dark, sun-burnt, glowing boy, with the thrill of a new emotion stirring through him, ran into song... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1875 - 630 pages
...composed by men who had Greek and Latin: but my girl sung a song which was said to be composed by a small country laird's son, on one of his father's maids,...no reason why I might not rhyme as well as he; for, excepting that he could smear sheep, and cast peats, his father living in the moorlands, he had no... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - 1875 - 274 pages
...composed by men who had Greck and Latin ; but my girl sung a song which was said to be composed by a small country laird's son, on one of his father's maids,...saw no reason why I might not rhyme as well as he." In 1777 the family removed to Lochlea, in the parish of Tarbolton, and Robert began to take his regular... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1880 - 1024 pages
...composed by men who had Greek and Latin ; but my girl sang a song which was said to be composed by a small country laird's son on one of his father's maids,...and I saw no reason why I might not rhyme as well aa he ; for, exceptmg that he could smear sheep and east peats, his father living in the moorlands,... | |
 | 1877 - 814 pages
...by men who had Greek and Latin ; but my girl sung a song, which was said to be composed by a small country laird's son, on one of his father's maids,...in love ; and I saw no reason why I might not rhyme as-well as he : for, excepting that he could shear sheep, and cast peats, his father living in the... | |
 | Archibald R. Adamson - 1879 - 298 pages
...composed by men that had Greek and Latin; but my girl sang a song which was said to be composed by a country laird's son, on one of his father's maids,...reason why I might not rhyme as well as he ; for, excepting that he could smear sheep and cast peats, his father living in the moorlands, he had no more... | |
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I was not so presumptuous as to imagine that I could make verses like printed ones, composed by men who had Greek and Latin ; but my girl sung a song which was said to be composed by a small country laird's son, on one of his father's maids, with whom... 
