 | Exemplary and instructive biography - 1836 - 348 str.
...poet's future fame. " I had taken the last farewell of my few friends," says Burns ; " my chest was or. the road to Greenock ; I had composed the last song I should ever measure in Scotland — ' The gloomy night is gathering fast' — when a letter from Dr Blacklock to a friend... | |
 | Englishmen - 1837 - 530 str.
...the merciless pack of the law at my heels. I had taken the last farewell of my few friends, — my chest was on the road to Greenock, — I had composed...night is Gathering Fast,' — when a letter from Dr Blacklock to a friend of mine, overthrew all my schemes, by opening new prospects to my poetic ambition."... | |
 | Robert Burns, John Gibson Lockhart - 1837 - 628 str.
...heels». I had taken the last farewell of my few friends ; mv chest was on the road to Greenock ; I li;td composed the last song I should ever measure in Caledonia, The gloomy niyht it gathering fastt when a letter from Dr. Jilocklock, to a friend of mine, overthrew all my schemes,... | |
 | John Aikin - 1838 - 796 str.
...uncoupled the merciless pack of the law at my heels. I had taken the last farewell of my few friends ; my rium wrought ; Your secret sympathy alone can tell...norves what tender tumults roll. While love with swe Blacklock to a friend of mine overthrew all my schemes, hy opening new prospects to my poetic amhition."... | |
 | James Currie - 1838 - 92 str.
...uncoupled the merciless pack of the law at my heels. I had taken the last farewell of my few friends; my chest was on the road to Greenock: I had composed...Gloomy Night is Gathering Fast— when a letter from Dr Blacklock to a friend of mine, overthrew all my schemes, by opening new prospects to my poetic ambition.... | |
 | 1838 - 1056 str.
...unmerciless pack of the law at my heels, — I had taken the last farewell of my few friends, — my chest was on the road to Greenock, — I had composed...night is gathering fast,' — when a letter from Dr. Blacklock to a friend of mine overthrew all my schemes, by opening new prospects to my poetic ambition."... | |
 | John Aikin, John Frost - 1838 - 752 str.
...uncoupled the merciless pack of the law at my heels. I had taken the last farewell of my few friends ; my lines and tented field, Where lang I'd been a lodger,...Л leal, light heart was in my breast, My hand un Blacklock to a friend of mine overtbrew all my schemes, hy opening new prospects to my poetic amhition."... | |
 | John Aikin - 1838 - 750 str.
...uncoupled the merciless pack of the law at my heels. I had taken the last farewell of my few friends ; my chest was on the road to Greenock ; I had composed the last song I should ever measure in Caledonia—The Gloomy Night is Gathering Fast; when a letter from Dr. lllncklock to a friend of mine... | |
 | 1839 - 320 str.
...friends; his chest was on the road to Greenork ; and he had composed the last song which he thought he should ever measure in Caledonia, " The gloomy night is gathering fast," when a letter from Dr. Ulacklock opened new prospects to his view. The doctor belonged to a set of draw his ra¡nd from his... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1839 - 334 str.
...heels. I had taken the last farewell of my few friends ; my chest was on the road to Greenock, and 1 had composed the last song I should ever measure in Caledonia — ' The gloomy night is gath'ring fast ;' when a letter from Dr. Blacklock to a friend of mine, overthrew all my schemes, by... | |
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I had been for some days skulking from covert to covert, under all the terrors of a jail; as some ill-advised people had uncoupled the merciless pack of the law at my heels. I had taken the last farewell of my few friends; my chest was on the road to... 
