 | Robert Burns - 1870 - 652 pages
...flower. ' " It was in vain to think of doing any more good at school. The remaining week I staid I did nothing but craze the faculties of my soul about her, or steal out to meet her ; and the last two nights of my stay in the country, had sleep been a mortal sin, the image of this modest and... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1871 - 516 pages
...I stayed I did nothing but craze the faculties of my soul about her, or stcol out to meet her ; aud the two last nights of my stay in the country, had...this modest and innocent girl had kept me guiltless." — Autobiography. [The young poet was then in the district where his mother's relatives resided, and... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1872 - 740 pages
...flower.' It was in vain to think of doing any more good at school. The remaining week I stayed, I did nothing but craze the faculties of my soul about her,...this modest and innocent girl had kept me guiltless." The rustic damsel who produced this extraordinary effect upon the youthful enthusiast was named Peggy... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1876 - 540 pages
...xxxi ) It was in vain to think of doing any more good at school. The remaining week I stayed I did nothing but craze the faculties of my soul about her,...image of this modest and innocent girl had kept me guiltless."—Autobiography. [The young poet was then in the district where hie mother's relatives... | |
 | William Anderson - 1867 - 798 pages
...bnt of which no permanent resnlt appears afterwards. "I retnrned home from Kirkoswald," says he, " very considerably improved. My reading was enlarged...of Thomson's and Shenstone's works. • I had seen hnman natnre in a new phasis, and I engaged several of my schoolfellows to keep np a literary correspondence... | |
 | Allan Cunningham, Charles Mackay - 1879 - 628 pages
...flower ' ' ' It was in vain to think of doing any more good at school. The remaining week I staid I did nothing but craze the faculties of my soul about her,...mortal sin, the image of this modest and innocent jirl had kept me guiltless. I returned home very considerably improved. My reading was enlarged with... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1880 - 362 pages
...was in vain," he says, "to think of doing any more good at school. The remaining week I stayed, I did nothing but craze the faculties of my soul about her,...this modest and innocent girl had kept me guiltless." He returned home, he tells us, considerably improved. His reading was enlarged with the very important... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1880 - 182 pages
...did nothing but craze the faculties of his soul about her, or steal out to meet her : ' The last two nights of my stay in the country, had sleep been a...this modest and innocent girl had kept me guiltless.' He met yet another, a sprightly, blue-eyed creature, amiable and trusting. On the eve of his intended... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1881 - 700 pages
...of doing any more good at sehool. The remaining week I stayed, 1 did nothing but oraze the faeulties of my soul about her, or steal out to meet her ; and the two last nights of my stay in the eountry, had sleep been a mortal sin, the image of this modest and innoeent girl had kept me guiltless.... | |
 | Addison Peale Russell - 1883 - 378 pages
...was in vain to think of doing any more good at school. The remaining week I stayed," he says, " I did nothing but craze the faculties of my soul about her,...this modest and innocent girl had kept me guiltless." From that time on, we are told, for several years, love-making was his chief amusement, or rather most... | |
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It was in vain to think of doing any more good at school. The remaining week I staid I did nothing but craze the faculties of my soul about her, or steal out to meet her; and the two last nights of my stay in the country, had sleep been a mortal sin,... 
