 | 1828 - عدد الصفحات: 722
...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 - عدد الصفحات: 734
...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 - عدد الصفحات: 324
...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 - عدد الصفحات: 268
...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 - عدد الصفحات: 340
...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 - عدد الصفحات: 842
...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 - عدد الصفحات: 324
...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 - عدد الصفحات: 92
...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... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1840 - عدد الصفحات: 862
...will also be precious. ' As for Burns,' writes Sir Walter, ' I may truly say, Virrjilium vidi taniitm. I was a lad of fifteen in 1786 - 7, when he came first...Mr. Thomas Grierson was at that time a clerk of my lather's. He knew Burns, and promised to ask him to his lodgings to dinner, but had no opportunity... | |
 | Allan Cunningham - 1841 - عدد الصفحات: 384
...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... | |
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I was a lad of fifteen in 1786-7, 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 with any literary people, and still... 
