 | Robert Burns - 1876 - 540 str.
...the bonie Hunts o' Ayr.—(l'ago 198, Vol. I.) " 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, when Dr. Blacklock's opinion that I would meet with encouragement in Edinburgh for a second edition,... | |
 | 1877 - 814 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."... | |
 | John Ross - 1878 - 816 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 up new prospects to my poetic ambition."... | |
 | John Ross - 1878 - 786 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 up new prospects to my poetic ambition."... | |
 | John Campbell Shairp - 1879 - 232 str.
...pack of the law at my heels. I had taken the last farewell of my friends ; my chest was on the way to Greenock ; I had composed the last song I should...gloomy night is gathering fast,' when a letter from Dr. Blackwood to a friend of mine overthrew all my schemes, by opening up new prospects to my poetic ambition."... | |
 | Allan Cunningham, Charles Mackay - 1879 - 628 str.
...had taken," says Burns, " the last farewell of my friends, my chest was on the road to Greenock, and I had composed the last song I should ever measure in Caledonia : ' The gloomy night is gath'ring taxi.' "] THE gloomy night is gath'ring fast, Loud roars the wild inconstant blast ; You... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - 1880 - 738 str.
...last farewell of my few friends ; my che>t was en 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. Blackloek to a friend of mine overthrew all my schemes by opening new ],n>~pects to my poetic ambition.... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1880 - 182 str.
...uncoupled the merciless pack of the law at my heels. I had taken the last farewell of my friends ; my chest was on the road to Greenock ; I had composed the last song 1 should ever measure in Caledonia — The Gloomy Night is Gathering Fast— when a letter from Dr.... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1881 - 582 str.
...mv heels. I had taken the last farewell of my few friends ; my chest was on the road to Oreenock ; 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 mine overthrew all my schemes, by opening new prospects to my poetic ambition."... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - 1882 - 720 str.
...my heels. I had taken the last farewell of my few friends ; my chest was on the road to Greenoek ; I had composed the last song I should ever measure...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.... | |
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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... 
