 | 1828 - 722 pages
..." The Justice of Peace." I whispered ray information to a friend present, he mentioned it to Burns, who rewarded me with a look and a word, which, though...received and still recollect with very great pleasure. ' His person was strong and robust ; his manners rustic, not clownish ; a sort of dignified plainness... | |
 | Constable and co, ltd - 1826 - 734 pages
...of The Justice of Peace. I whispered my information to a friend present, who mentioned it to Burns, who rewarded me with a look and a word, which, though...received, and still recollect, with very great pleasure. " His person was strong and robust; his-manic 4 ners rustic, not clownish ; a sort of dignified plainness... | |
 | William Jerdan, William Ring Workman, Frederick Arnold, John Morley, Charles Wycliffe Goodwin - 1828 - 882 pages
...• The Justice of Peace.* I whispered my information to a friend presnnt, who mentioned it to Burns, who rewarded me with a look and a word, which, though...received, and still recollect, with very great pleasure. His person was strong and robust; his manners rustic, not clownish ; a sort of dignified plainness... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1828 - 324 pages
...of The Justice of Peace. I whispered my information to a friend present, who mentioned it to Burns, who rewarded me with a look and a word, which, though...received, and still recollect, with very great pleasure. " His person was strong and robust ; his manic 4 ners rustic, not clownish ; a sort of dignified plainness... | |
 | 1828 - 268 pages
...whispered my information to a friend present, <fci 1 mentioned it to Burns, who rewarded me with a lo"<4k and a word, which, though of mere civility, I then...received, and still recollect, with very great pleasure. ' His person was strong and robust ; his manners rustic, not clownish ; a sort of dignified plainness... | |
 | 1830 - 472 pages
...' The Justice of Peace.' I whispered my information to a friend present, who mentioned it to Burns, who rewarded me with a look and a word, which, though...received, and still recollect, with very great pleasure. " His person was strong and robust; his manners rustic, not clownish; a sort of dignified plainness... | |
 | 1835 - 842 pages
...forgotten poem of Langhornc's. I passed this information to Burns by a friend, and I was rewarded wiih a look and a word, which, though of mere civility,...received, and still recollect, with very great pleasure." "Hid person," continues Sir Walter, "was strong and robust: his manners rustic, not clownish, a sort... | |
 | Robert Burns, John Gibson Lockhart - 1837 - 628 pages
...of The Justice of Peace. I whispered my information to a friend present, who mentioned it to Burns, who rewarded me with a look and a word, which, though...received, and still recollect, with very great pleasure. " His person was strong and robust ; his manners rustic, not clpwnisb ; a sort of dignHied plainness... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1838 - 476 pages
..." The Justice of Peace." I whispered my information to a friend present, he mentioned it to Burns, who rewarded me with a look and a word, which, though...received and still recollect with very great pleasure. 'His person was strong and robust; his manners rustic, not clownish; a sort of dignified plainness... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1839 - 422 pages
...The Justice of the Peace.' I whispered my information to a friend present, who mentioned it to Burns, who rewarded me with a look and a word, which, though...received, and still recollect, with very great pleasure. " His person was strong and robust : his manners rustic, not clownish ; a sort of dignified plainness... | |
| |
He actually shed tears. He asked whose the lines were, and it chanced that nobody but myself remembered that they occur in a half-forgotten poem of Langhorne's called by the unpromising title of 'The Justice of the Peace'. 
