 | Robert Burns - 1834 - 206 str.
...I threw off six hundred copies, of which I had got subscriptions for about three hundred and fifty. My vanity was highly gratified by the reception I...with from the public; and besides, I pocketed, all expenses deducted, nearly twenty pounds. This sum came very seasonably, as I was thinking of indenting... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1834 - 360 str.
...threw off six hundred copies, of which I had got subscriptions for about three hundred and fifty.—My vanity was highly gratified by the reception I met with from the public; and besides I pocketed, all expenses deducted, nearly twenty pounds. This sum came very seasonably, as I was thinking of indenting... | |
 | Robert Burns, John Gibson Lockhart - 1837 - 628 str.
...threw oli' six hundred copies, for which I got subscriptions for about three hundred and fifty.* — My vanity was highly gratified by the reception I met with from the public ; and besides, I pocketed nearly ,£'20. This sum came very seasonably, as I was thinking of indenting myself, for want of money... | |
 | 1838 - 1056 str.
...however, to pay the expense of his passage, a difficulty which was surmounted by publishing in Ayr a first edition of his poems, that is, of those which...with from the public ; and, besides, I pocketed, all expenses deducted, nearly twenty pounds. This sum came very seasonably, as I was thinking of indenting... | |
 | James Currie - 1838 - 92 str.
...I threw off six hundred copies, of which I had got subscriptions for about three hundred snd fifty. My vanity was highly gratified by the reception I...with from the public; and, besides, I pocketed, all expenses deducted, nearly twenty pounds. * [The piece here allnded to is that entitled Tho Twa Herds.]... | |
 | 1840 - 408 str.
...the expense of his passage, a difficulty which was surmounted by publishing in Ayr a first eilition of his poems, that is, of those which were then written....subject: "My vanity was highly gratified by the reception 1 met with from the public; and, besides, I pocketed, all expenses deducted, nearly twenty pounds.... | |
 | John Wilson - 1845 - 236 str.
...neglect. I threw off six hundred copies, of which I got subscriptions for about three hundred and sixty. My vanity was highly gratified by the reception I...with from the public; and besides, I pocketed, all expenses deducted, near twenty pounds. This sum came very seasonably, as I was thinking of indenturing... | |
 | John Wilson - 1845 - 266 str.
...neglect. I threw off six hundred copies, of which I got subscriptions for about three hundred and sixty. My vanity was highly gratified by the reception I met with from the public; and besides, 1 pocketed, all expenses deducted, near twenty pounds. This sum came very seasonably, as I was thinking... | |
 | Samuel Tyler - 1848 - 232 str.
...threw oft' six hundred copies, of which I had got subscriptions for about three hundred and fifty. My vanity was highly gratified by the reception I...with from the public. And besides, I pocketed, all expenses deducted, nearly twenty pounds. This sum came very seasonably, as I was thinking of indenting... | |
 | John Wilson - 1854 - 252 str.
...neglect. I threw off six hundred copies, of which I got subscriptions for about three hundred and sixty. My vanity was highly gratified by the reception I met with from the public ; and besides, 1 pocketed, all expenses deducted, near twenty pounds. This sum came very seasonably, as I was thinking... | |
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This sum came very seasonably, as I was thinking of indenting myself, for want of money to procure my passage. As soon as I was master of nine guineas, the price of wafting me to the torrid zone, I took a steerage passage in the first ship that was to... 
