 | 1883 - 778 pages
...composed by men who read Greek and Latin ; but my girl sung 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 shear sheep and cast peats, his father living in the moorlands, he had no more... | |
 | Oliver Bell Bunce - 1883 - 332 pages
...but my girl sung a song which was said to be composed by a small country laird's son, on one of hit father's maids, with whom he was in love, and I saw no riason why I might not rhyme as well as he. . . . Thus with me began love and poetry.") OH, once I... | |
 | Oliver Bell Bunce - 1884 - 336 pages
...girl sung a song which was said to be composed by a small country laird's son, on one of hit father3 s maids, with whom he was in love, and I saw no reason why I might not rhyme as well as he. . . . Thus with me began love and poetry.") OH, once I loved a bonnie lass, Ay, and I love her still... | |
 | Maude Gillette Phillips - 1885 - 612 pages
...composed by men who read Greek and Latin ; but my girl sung a song which was said to be composed by a 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 shear sheep and cast peats, his father living in the moorlands, he had no more... | |
 | Maude Gillette Phillips - 1885 - 648 pages
...composed by men who read Greek and Latin ; but my girl sung 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 shear sheep and cast peats, his father living in the moorlands, he had no more... | |
 | Thomas W. Handford - 1885 - 456 pages
...composed by men who had Greek and Latin ; but my girl sung a song which was said to be composed by a 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 shear sheep and cast peats, his father living in the moorlands, he had no more... | |
 | Robert C. Ferguson - 1887 - 308 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,...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 moorlands, he had no more... | |
 | Sarah Knowles Bolton - 1890 - 488 pages
...composed by men who read Greek and Latin ; but my girl sung 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 shear sheep and cast peats, his father living in the moorlands, he had no more... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1892 - 130 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 smearing sheep, and casting peats (his father living in the moors), he had no more scholar-craft... | |
 | Robert Brown (F.S.A., Scot.) - 1893 - 408 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,...no reason why I might not rhyme as well as he ; for excepting that he could smear sheep, and cast peats, his father being in the moor-lands, he had no... | |
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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... 
