 | George Smeeton - 1830 - 278 str.
...have I listened to some future hackney scribbler, with the heavy malice of savage stupidity exultingly asserting that Burns, notwithstanding the fanfaronade...meanest of pursuits, and among the lowest of mankind.' And, in continuation he says — 'Burns was a poor man from his birth, and an exciseman by necessity... | |
 | 1831 - 426 str.
...have I listened to some future hackney scribbler, with heavy malice of savage stupidity, exultingly asserting that Burns, notwithstanding the fanfaronade...meanest of pursuits and among the lowest of mankind." This passage has no doubt often been read with sympathy. That Burns should have embraced the only opportunity... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1831 - 484 str.
...have I listened to some future hackney scribbler, with heavy malice of aavago stupidity, exultingly asserting that Burns, notwithstanding the fanfaronade...insignificant existence, in the meanest of pursuits, and amoiw the lowest of mankind." This passage has no doubt often been read with sympathy. That Bums should... | |
 | Richard Robert Madden - 1833 - 164 str.
...themselves in his way, and his irregularities grew by degrees into habits." In his own words, " he had dwindled into a paltry exciseman, and slunk out the...meanest of pursuits, and among the lowest of mankind." From this period poverty, and its attendant ills, were seldom from his door ; the irritability of his... | |
 | Richard Robert Madden - 1833 - 214 str.
...themselves in his way, and his irregularities grew by degrees into habits." In his own words, " he had dwindled into a paltry exciseman, and slunk out the...meanest of pursuits, and among the lowest of mankind." From this period poverty, and its attendant ills, were seldom from his door; the irritability of his... | |
 | Richard Robert Madden - 1833 - 214 str.
...themselves in his way, and his irregularities grew by degrees into habits." In his own words, " he had dwindled into a paltry exciseman, and slunk out the...meanest of pursuits, and among the lowest of mankind." From this period poverty, and its attendant ills, were seldom from his door ; the irritability of his... | |
 | George Smeeton - 1834 - 300 str.
...have I listened to some future hackney scribbler, with the heavy malice of savage stupidity exultingly asserting that Burns, notwithstanding the fanfaronade...meanest of pursuits, and among the lowest of mankind.' And, in continuation he says — 'Burns was a poor man from his birth, and an exctseman by necessity;... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1834 - 420 str.
...notwithstanding the fanfaronade of independence to be found in his works, and after having been held forth to public view and to public estimation as a man of...existence in the meanest of pursuits, and among the vilest of mankind.' — In your hands, sir, permit me to lodge my disavowal and defiance of the slanderous... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1834 - 206 str.
...fanfaronade of independence to be found in his works, and after being held up to public view, «nd to public estimation, as a man of some genius, yet,...meanest of pursuits and among the lowest of mankind. IIIOM HIS BIBTH, AND AN EXCISEMAN BT NECESSITY; BUT 1 WILL SAT IT! THE STEHIIN& OF HIS HONEST WORTH,... | |
 | Robert Burns, Allan Cunningham - 1834 - 384 str.
...of some genius, yet, quite destitute of resources within himself to support uis borrowed dignity, he dwindled into a paltry exciseman, and slunk out the...existence in the meanest of pursuits, and among the vilest of mankind." In your illustrious hands, Sir, permit me to lodge my disavowal and defiance of... | |
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... dwindled into a paltry exciseman, and slunk out the rest of his insignificant existence in the meanest of pursuits, and among the vilest of mankind. 
