 | Robert Burns - 1871 - 692 páginas
...upon the world — that letters and verses, written with unguarded and improper freedom, and which he earnestly wished to have buried in oblivion, would be handed about by idle vanity or malevolence, unrestrained by any dread of his resentment, and unchecked by inward consciousness of the injustice... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1876 - 536 páginas
...upon the world — that letters and verses, written with unguarded and improper freedom, and which he earnestly wished to have buried in oblivion, would be handed about by idle vanity or malevolence, unrestrained by any dread of his resentment, and unchecked by inward consciousness of the injustice... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1880 - 1024 páginas
...! (For none that knew him need be told) A warmer heart Death ne'er made cold. freedom, and which he earnestly wished to have buried in oblivion, would...resentment would restrain them, or prevent the censures of shrill-tongned malice, or the insidious sarcasms of envy, from punring forth all their venom to blast... | |
 | Archibald R. Adamson - 1879 - 298 páginas
...unguarded and improper freedom, and which he had earnestly wished to have buried in oblivion, would he handed about by idle vanity or malevolence, when no...had written many epigrams on persons against whom he entertained no enmity, and whose characters he should he sorry to wound ; and many indifferent poetical... | |
 | Allan Cunningham, Charles Mackay - 1879 - 628 páginas
...future reputation ; that letters and verses, written with unguarded freedom, would be handed about by vanity or malevolence, when no dread of his resentment would restrain them, or prevent malice or envy from pouring forth their venom on his name. I had seldom seen his mind greater, or more... | |
 | Henry William Dulcken - 1880 - 858 páginas
...future reputation ; that letters and verses written with unguarded and improper freedom, and which he earnestly wished to have buried in oblivion, would...had written many epigrams on persons against whom he entertained no enmity, and whose characters he should be sorry to wound ; and many indifferent poetical... | |
 | Church of Scotland - 1880 - 408 páginas
...future reputation ; that letters and verses written with unguarded and improper freedom, and which he earnestly wished to have buried in oblivion, would...when no dread of his resentment would restrain them." Who that reads these words will say it has been well done to give to the world those editions of his... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1880 - 362 páginas
...future reputation ; that letters and verses written with unguarded and improper freedom, and which he earnestly wished to have buried in oblivion, would be handed about by vanity or malevolence, when no dread of his resentment would restrain them, or prevent the censures... | |
 | 1883 - 778 páginas
...reputation ; that his letters and verses written with unguarded and improper freedom, and which he earnestly wished to have buried in oblivion, would...had written many epigrams on persons against whom he entertained no enmity, and whose characters he would be sorry to wound ; and many indifferent poetical... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1886 - 484 páginas
...letters and verses written with unguarded and improper freedom, instead of being, as he earnestly wished, buried in oblivion, would be handed about by idle vanity or malevolence to blast his fame, when no dread of his resentment could restrain them." In Allan Cunningham's edition... | |
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He said he was well aware that his death would occasion some noise, and that every scrap of his writing would be revived against him to the injury of his future reputation; that letters: and verses written with unguarded and improper freedom, and which... 
