...the whole of his reading. The collection of songs was his cade mecum. He pored over them driving his cart, or walking to labour, song by song, verse by...sublime from affectation and fustian. " I am convinced," he says, •• I owe to this practice much of my critic craft, such as it is." In his seventeenth...

...whioh Burns says, " This was my vademécum. I poured over them driving my cart, or walking to labor, song by song, verse by verse ; carefully noting the true, tender, or sublime, from affect ition and fustian. I am convinced I ove to this practice much of my critic-craft, such as it...

...reading. Above all there was a collection of songs, of which Burns says, " This was my vade mecurn. I pored over them driving my cart, or walking to labour,...fustian. I am convinced I owe to this practice much of my critic-craft, such as it is ! " And he could not have learnt it in a better way. There are few countries...

...Select Collection of English Songs.' " This may have been the book he refers to as "my vade mecum." "I pored over them driving my cart, or walking to...true, tender, or sublime from affectation and fustian " (letter to Dr. Moore, Aug. 2, 1787). f Vide Watson's Collection, pt. ip 32, " The Life and Death...

...'Select Collection of English Songs.'" This may have been the book he refers to as " my vadc mecum." " I pored over them driving my cart, or walking to labour,...true, tender, or sublime from affectation and fustian" (letter to Dr. Moore, Aug. 2, 1787). \ Vide Watson's Collection, pt. ip 32, " The Life and Death of...

...not willingly let die." A collection of songs which he possessed, he tells us, he pored over " while driving my cart or walking to labour, song by song,...verse by verse, carefully noting the true, tender, and sublime, from affectation and fustian. I am convinced I owe to this practice much of my critic...

...ascribed the waking of his own muse. "These," said he, " I pored over driving my cart or walking to labor, song by song, verse by verse, carefully noting the...'tender or sublime, from affectation and fustian." occasion, "some one entering the house at meal-time found the whole family seated each with a spoon...

...over them driving my cart, or walking to labor, song by song, verse by verse—carefully noting the tender or sublime, from affectation and fustian. I am convinced I owe much to this for my critic-craft, such as it is. In my seventeenth year, to give my manners a brush,...

...collection of songs, he says, was his vnde mecum : " I pored over them driving my cart, or walking to labor, song by song, verse by verse : carefully noting the...sublime, from affectation and fustian. I am convinced," he adds, " I owe to this practice much of my critic craft, such as it is." After Mr. Murdoch, who was,...

...collection of songs, he says, was his vade mecum : " I pored over them driving my cart, or walking to labor, song by song, verse by verse : carefully noting the...sublime, from affectation and fustian. I am convinced," he adds, " I owe to this practice much of my critic craft, such as it is." After Mr. Murdoch, who was,...