 | Robert Burns - Scotland - 1831 - 484 pages
...aith, Tho' I should pawn my pleugh and graitli, Or die a cadger pownie's death, At some dyke-back, A pint an' gill I'd gie them baith To hear your crack....I to the crambo-jingle fell, Tho' rude an' rough, let crooning to a body's sel, Does well enough. I am nae poet, in a sense, But just a rhymer, like,... | |
 | 1831 - 426 pages
...and graith, Or die a cadger po» rue's death, At some dyke-back, Л pint en' gill I'd gie thorn bahh To hear your crack. But, first an* foremost, I should...soon as I could spell, I to the crambo-jingle fell, Though rude an' rough, Vet crooning to a body's sel', Does well eneugb. I am пае poet, in & sense,... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1831 - 338 pages
...remembrance." (MS. Memorandum book, August 1783.) In his first epistle to Lapraik (1785) he says — " Amaist as soon as I could spell, I to the crambo-jingle fell, Tho' rude and rough ; Yet crooning to a body's sell Docs weel encugh." And in some nobler veres, entitled " On... | |
 | Robert Burns - Poetry, Modern - 1834 - 206 pages
...*Tween Inverness and Tiviotdale, He had few matches. Or die a cadger- pownie's death, At some dyke-back, A pint an' gill I'd gie them baith To hear your crack....an' rough, Yet crooning to a body's sel, Does weel enough. I am nae Poet, in a sense, But just a Rhymer, like, by chance, An1 hae to learning nae pretence,... | |
 | Robert Burns, John Gibson Lockhart - Scotland - 1837 - 628 pages
...aith. The' I should paira my pleugh an' graith, Or die a cadger pownie's death, At some dyke back, A pint an' gill I'd gie them baith To hear your crack. But, first an' foremost, I should tul!, Amaist as soon as I could spell, I to the crambo-jingle fell, Tho' rude and rough, Yet crooning... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1838 - 796 pages
...aith, Though I should pawn my pleugh and graith, Or die a cadger pownie's death, At some dyke-back, which sense a made Subservient still to moral purposes, Auxiliar to divine. That Though rude an' rough, Yet crooning to a body's sel, Does well cneugh. I am пае poet, in a sense,... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1838 - 750 pages
...and graith, Or die a cadger pownie's death, At some dyke-hack, A pint an' gill I'd gie them haitli To hear your crack. But, first an' foremost, I should tell, Amaist as soon as I could spell, I to the cramho-jingle fell, Though rude an' rough, Yet crooning to a hody's sel, Does well eneugh. I am nae... | |
 | John Aikin, John Frost - English poetry - 1838 - 752 pages
...spell, I to the cramho-jingle fell, Though rude an' rough, Yet crooning to a hody's sel, Does well hy chance, An' hae to learning nae pretence, Yet, what the matter ; Whene'er my muse does on me glance,... | |
 | Robert Burns - Poets, English - 1840 - 872 pages
...l™->m lean, is given enure in Bums'* Remarks on Scotti* bong.J ? — ' — — — — — « Л, proverb way ! array, who frequently contributed пае poet, in a sense, But just a rhymer, like by chance, An" пае to learning пае pretence,... | |
 | Robert Burns - Poets, Scottish - 1840 - 368 pages
...pownie's death, At some dyke back, A pint and gill I'd gie them baith To hear your crack. But, first and foremost, I should tell, Amaist as soon as I could spell, I to the crambo-jingle fell, Tho' rude and rough, Yet crooning to a body's sel' Does weel eneugh. I am nae poet, in a sense, But just a rhymer,... | |
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I am nae poet, in a sense, But just a rhymer like, by chance, An' hae to learning nae pretence, Yet, what the matter? Whene'er my muse does on me glance, I jingle at her. Your... 
