 | Robert Burns - 1800 - 424 pages
...sung a song which was said to be composed by " a small country laird's son, on one of his father's " maids, with whom he was in love ; and I saw " no reason why I might not rhyme as well as k" he ; for excepting that he could smear sheep, " and cast peats, his father living in the moor" lands,... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1806 - 422 pages
...girl sung a song, which was said to be composed by a small country laird's son, on one of his father's maids, with whom he was in love ; and I saw no reason why I might not rhyme as well as he; for, excepting that he could smear sheep, and cast peats, his father living in the moor-lands, he hud no... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1816 - 714 pages
...girl sung a song which was said to be composed by a small country laird's son, on one of his father's maids, with whom he was in love ; and I saw no reason why I might not rhyme as well as he ; for excepting that he could smear sheep, and cast peats, his father living in the moorlands, he had no... | |
 | British prose literature - 1819 - 364 pages
...girl sung a song, which was said to be composed by a small country laird's son, on one of his father's maids, with whom he was in love ! and I saw no reason why I might not rhyme as well as he; for, excepting that he could smear sheep, and cast peats, his father living in the moor-lands, he had no... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1819 - 388 pages
...girl sung a song, which was said to be composed by a small country laird's son, on one of his father's maids, with whom he was in love ! and I saw no reason why I might not rhyme as well as he; for, excepting that he could smear sheep, and cast peats, his father living in the moor-lands, he had no... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1823 - 848 pages
...composed by men who had Greek and Latió } ed by a «mall country laird's son, on one of his father's maids, with whom he was in love, and I saw no reason why I might not rhyme as well as he ; for ex- "™ cepting that he conld smear sheep, and cast peats, his father living in the moorlands, he... | |
 | 1824 - 312 pages
...composed by a small country aird's son, on one of his father's maids, with whom he was in love ; ml I saw no reason why I might not rhyme as well as he ; for, xcepting that he could shear heep, and cast peats, his father iving in the moorlands, he had o more... | |
 | Robert Burns, Alfred Howard - Poetry - 1826 - 226 pages
...girl sung a song, which was said to be composed by a small country laird's son, on one of his father's maids, with whom he was in love! and I saw no reason why I might not rhyme as well as he ; for, excepting that he could smear sheep, and cast peats, his father living in the moor-lands, he had no... | |
 | Constable and co, ltd - 1826 - 734 pages
...girl sung a song, which was said to be composed by a small country laird's son, on one of his father's maids, with whom he was in love; and I saw no reason why I might not rhyme as well as he; for, excepting that he could smear sheep, and cast peats, his father living in the moorlands, he had no... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - Poets, Scottish - 1828 - 324 pages
...girl sung a song, which was said to be composed by a Email country laird's son, on one of his father's maids, with whom he was in love ; and I saw no reason why I might not rhyme as well as he ; for, excepting that he could smear sheep, and cast peats, his father living in the moorlands, he had no... | |
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I was not so presumptuous as to imagine that I could make verses like printed ones, composed by men who had Greek and Latin ; but my girl sung a song which was said to be composed by a small country laird's son, on one of his father's maids, with whom... 
