 | 1860 - 782 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."... | |
 | 1860 - 544 str.
...I had taken farewell of my few friends ; my chest was on the road to Greenook ; I had composed tho last song I should ever measure in Caledonia, ' The...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.... | |
 | George Godfrey Cunningham - 1863 - 826 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."... | |
 | James Linen - 1865 - 438 str.
...the merciless pack of the law at my heels. I had just 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 up new prospects to my poetic ambition."... | |
 | Robert Burns, Alexander Smith - 1865 - 466 str.
...: — 'I had taken the last farewell of my few friends ; my chest was on the road to Greenock, and I had composed the last song I should ever measure...gloomy night is gathering fast : when a letter from Dr. Blacklock to a friend of page line mine overthrew all my schemes, by opening new prospects to my poetic... | |
 | Robert Burns, Alexander Smith - 1865 - 462 str.
...:— ' I had taken the last farewell of my few friends ; my chest was on the road to Greenock, and I had composed the last song I should ever measure in Caledonia — page line mine overthrew all my schemes, by opening new prospects to my poetic ambition.' The song... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1866 - 356 str.
...where so touchingly described his feelings at this period, with so much effect, as in his poem, the way to Greenock ; I had composed the last song I should...gloomy night is gathering fast,' when a letter from Dr. Blaeklock to a friend of mine overthrew all my schemes, by opening new prospects to my poetic ambition."... | |
 | Samuel M. Kennedy - 1867 - 530 str.
...relation. " I had," says he, in his letter to Dr. Moore, "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 write in Caledonia, 'The gloomy night is gathering fast,' when a letter from Dr. Blacklock to a friend... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1868 - 312 str.
...friends; my ehest was on the road to Groeneek ; 1 had eomposed the last song 1 shonld ever measnre in Caledonia, " The gloomy night is gathering fast:" when a letter from Dr. Blaekloek, to a friend of mine, overthrew all my sehemes, hy opening new prospeets to my poetie ambition.... | |
 | Robert Burns, Alexander Smith - 1868 - 688 str.
...— , I had taken the last farewell of my few friends ; my chest was on the road to Grcenock . and I had composed the last song I should ever measure in Caledonia — '1 In' gloomy night i., gathering f .-i . when a letter from Dr. Blacklock to a friend of mine... | |
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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... 
