Hannibal gave my young ideas such a turn that I used to strut in raptures up and down after the recruiting drum and bagpipe, and wish myself tall enough to be a soldier, while the story of Wallace poured a Scottish prejudice into my veins, which will... Littell's Living Age - Página 531847Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Robert Burns, Allan Cunningham - 1855 - 616 páginas
...down after the recruiting drum and'/bagpipe, and,, wish myself tall enough to be a soldier ; while the story of Wallace poured a Scottish prejudice into...till the floodgates of life shut in eternal rest." "Polemical divinity about this time was putting the' country half mad ; and I, ambitious of shining... | |
| Robert Burns - 1855 - 562 páginas
...and down after the recruiting drum and bag-pipe, and wish myself tall enough to be a soldier ; while the story of Wallace poured a Scottish prejudice into...till the floodgates of life shut in eternal rest. Polemical divinity about this time was putting the country half mad, and I, ambitious of shining in... | |
| Robert Burns - 1856 - 728 páginas
...and down after the recruiting drum and bagpipe, and wish myself tall enough to be a soldier; while the story of Wallace poured a Scottish prejudice into...till the floodgates of life shut in eternal rest. 'Polemical divinity about this time was putting the country half mad ; and I, ambitious of shining... | |
| George Henderson - 1856 - 206 páginas
...patriotism, and we cursed the Southern in our heart ! That book, to use the words of the immortal Burns, "poured a Scottish prejudice into my veins, which...till the flood-gates of life shut in eternal rest." None of our youthful compeers, that we ever met with, had the same enthusiasm about Wallace, except... | |
| George Henderson (of Chirnside) - 1856 - 202 páginas
...patriotism, and we cursed the Southern in our heart ! That book, to use the words of the immortal Burns, "poured a Scottish prejudice into my veins, which...till the flood-gates of life shut in eternal rest." None of our youthful compeers, that we ever met with, had the same enthusiasm about Wallace, except... | |
| John Wilson - 1857 - 466 páginas
...bagpipe, and wished myself tall enough to be a soldier ; while the story of Wallace poured a tide of Scottish prejudice into my veins, which will boil...till the floodgates of life shut in eternal rest." And speaking of tha same period and books to Mrs Dunlop, he says, " For several of my earlier years... | |
| John Wilson - 1857 - 448 páginas
...bagpipe, and wished myself tall enough to be a soldier ; while the story of Wallace poured a tide of Scottish prejudice into my veins, which will boil...till the floodgates of life shut in eternal rest." And speaking of ther same period and books to Mrs Dunlop, he says, " For several of my earlier years... | |
| John Wilson - 1857 - 454 páginas
...bagpipe, and wished myself tall enough to be a soldier ; while the story of Wallace poured a tide of Scottish prejudice into my veins, which will boil...till the floodgates of life shut in eternal rest." And speaking of the same period and books to Mrs Dunlop, he says, " For several of my earlier years... | |
| William Chambers - 1858 - 378 páginas
...and down after the recruiting drum and bagpipe, and wish myself tall enough to be a soldier ; while the story of Wallace poured a Scottish prejudice into...till the floodgates of life shut in eternal rest." Shakspeare has been the favourite of far too many to be specified ; but the enthusiasm of one humble... | |
| Robert Burns - 1859 - 530 páginas
...and down after the recruiting drum and bagpipe, and wish myself tall enough to be a soldier ; while the story of Wallace poured a Scottish prejudice into...till the flood-gates of life shut in eternal rest. " Polemical divinity about this time was putting the country half mad ; and I, ambitious of shining... | |
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