 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 feeling enough to be much interested in his poetry, and would have given the world to know him : but I had very little acquaintance...  Critical and Miscellaneous Essays - Page 101de Thomas Carlyle - 1845 - 568 pagesAffichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | 1828 - 722 pages
...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 - 734 pages
...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.... | |
 | William Jerdan, William Ring Workman, Frederick Arnold, John Morley, Charles Wycliffe Goodwin - 1828 - 882 pages
...Scott :— " As for Burns, I may truly say, Virgiliiim vidi Ionium. I was a lad of fifteen in l"86-7, when he came first to Edinburgh, but had sense and...he most frequented. Mr. Thomas Grierson was at that time a clerk of my father's. He knew Burns, and promised to ask him to his lodgings to dinner, but... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1828 - 324 pages
...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 - 268 pages
...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... | |
 | 1830 - 472 pages
...Walter 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...he most frequented. Mr. Thomas Grierson was at that time a clerk of my father's. He knew Burns, and promised to ask him to his lodgings to dinner, but... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1830 - 340 pages
...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... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1831 - 338 pages
...with any literary people, and still less with the gentry Morrison's Burns, vol. i. pp. Ixxi. Ixxii. of the west country, the two sets that he most frequented. Mr. Thomas Grierson was at that time a clerk of my father's. He knew Burns, and promised to ask him to his lodgings to dinner, but... | |
 | 1835 - 842 pages
...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... | |
 | Robert Burns, John Gibson Lockhart - 1837 - 628 pages
...writes : — " As for Burns, I may truly say, Viry ilium vidi tonfum. I was a lad of fifteen in 1786-7, when he came first to Edinburgh, but had sense and...he most frequented. Mr. Thomas Grierson was at that time a clerk of my father's. He knew Burns, and promised to ask him to his lodgings to dinner, but... | |
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