...Songs, and Hervey's Meditations, had formed the whole of my reading. The collection of songs was my vade mecum. I pored over them, driving my cart, or walking...fustian. I am convinced I owe to this practice much of my critic-craft, such as it is. In my seventeenth year, to give my manners a brush, I went to a country...

...Songs, and Hervey's Meditations, had formed the whole of my reading. The collection of songs was my vade mecum. I pored over them, driving my cart, or walking...song by song, verse by verse; carefully noting the <:-ue tender, or sublime, from affectation and fustian. I am convinced I owe to this practice much...

...He continues in the same letter, " a collection of songs was my vade mecum, I pored over them drivmg my cart, or walking to labour, song by song, verse...practice, much of my critic craft, such as it is." Burns continued with his father, working on the farm, till he was near twentythree, when he entered...

...Hcrvcy's Jlífxliíations, had formed the whole of my reading. The collection of songs was my cade mecum. I pored over them, driving my cart, or walking to labour, song by song, verse by vcr-c ; carefully noting the true tender, or sublime, from affectation and fustian. I am Convinced...

...and Hervey's Meditations, had formed the whole of my reading. The collet-lion of songs was my vade mecum. I pored over them driving my cart, or walking to labour, song by fioug, verse by verse—carefully noting the true tender HI- Mil>lime, from affectation and fustian....

...Ramsay's Works, and a collection of English songs. " The collection of songs," he adds, " was my vade mecum. I pored over them driving my cart or walking...practice much of my critic craft, such as it is." He afterward went for a few weeks to a village school, where he obtained some acquaintance with the...

...collection of songs," he adds, " was my vade mecum. I pored over them, driving my cart, or walking to labor, song by song, verse by verse, carefully noting the...practice much of my critic craft, such as it is." The songs of Scotland which are thus complimented, are doubtless among the richest of all those popular...

...collection of songs," he adds, " was my vade mecum. I pored over them, driving my cart, or walking to labor, song by song, verse by verse, carefully noting the...practice much of my critic craft, such as it is." The songs of Scotland which are thus complimented, are doubtless among the richest of all those popular...

...which Burns says, " This was my vade mecum. I pored over them driving my cart or walking to labor, song by song, verse by verse ; carefully noting the...fustian. I am convinced I owe to this practice much of my criticcraft, such as it is." The books which fed his young intellect were devoured only during intervals...

...treasures. This, he says, " was my vade-mecum. 1 pored over them, driving my cart or walking to labor, song by song, verse by verse, carefully noting the...tender, or sublime, from affectation and fustian." And under whah circumstances were these studies pursued ? " '['ho cheerless gliiniii rif a hermit,"...