 | Robert Burns - Scotland - 1831 - 484 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... | |
 | Robert Burns - Poetry, Modern - 1834 - 206 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, ex cepting that he could smear sheep and cast peats, his father living in the moorlands, he had no... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1834 - 360 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... | |
 | Robert Burns, Allan Cunningham - Ballads, Scots - 1834 - 368 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... | |
 | 1835 - 842 pages
...sung a song, which was said to have been compose;! by a country laird's son upon a neighboring maiden with whom he was in love ! and I saw no reason why Т might not rhyme а.ч well аэ he ; for, excepting that he couhl shear sheep and cast peak*, (his... | |
 | Englishmen - 1836 - 260 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 shear sheep, and cast peats — his father living in the moorlands — he had... | |
 | 1836 - 802 pages
...was said to be composed by a country laird's son on one of his father's maids with whom he лч-as in love ; and I saw no reason why I might not rhyme as well as he — for excepting he could shear sheep and cast peats, his father living in the moorlands, he had no more scholar-craft... | |
 | Englishmen - 1837 - 530 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 shear sheep, and cast peats — his father living in the moorlands — he had... | |
 | Robert Burns, John Gibson Lockhart - Scotland - 1837 - 628 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 Aikin - English poetry - 1838 - 796 pages
...girl sung a song which was said to he composed hy a small country laird's son, on one of his father's nd sorrow. Thou art gone ; Anil he who would assail thee in thy grave, П, let him pause ! For w excepting that he could shear 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... 
