 Come, go to, I will be wise!" I read farming books; I calculated crops; I attended markets; and, in short, in spite of the devil, and the world, and the flesh, I believe I should have been a wise man; but the first year, from unfortunately buying bad...  The British Prose Writers... - Seite 681819Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Robert Burns - 1800 - 424 Seiten
...come, go to, 1 will be wise ! I read farming " books, I calculated crops ; I attended markets ; " and in short, in spite of the devil, and the world, "...the flesh, I believe I should have been a wise man ; Rob the Rhymer's Welcome to his Bastard Child. " man ; but the first year, from unfortunately " buying... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1806 - 422 Seiten
...resolution, Come, go to, I will be wise! I read farming books ; I calculated crops; I attended markets; and, in short, in spite of the devil, and the world, and...lost half our crops. This overset all my wisdom, and I returned, like the dog to his vomit, and the sow that was washed, to her wallowing in the mire.*... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1814 - 306 Seiten
...read farming books ; I calculated crops; I attended nirkets ; and in short, in spite of the devil, the world, and the flesh, I believe I should have...from unfortunately buying bad seed, the second from a laie harvest, we lost haif our crops. This overset all my wisdom, and 1 returned, like the dog to his... | |
 | Robert Burns, James Currie - 1814 - 502 Seiten
...eome, go to, I will he wise ! I read farming-hooks ; I ealeulated erops; I attended markets; and, iu short, in spite of the devil, and the world, and the flesh, I helieve I should have heen a wise man ; hut the first year, from unfortunately huying had seed, the... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1816 - 714 Seiten
...resolution, Come, go to, I will be wise ! I read farming books, I calculated crops ; I attended markets ; and in short, in spite of the devil, and the world, and...lost half our crops. This overset all my wisdom, and I returned, like the dog to hh * Rob the Rhymer'* Welcome to his Bastard Child. See Poems, p. 81(5.... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1816 - 342 Seiten
...calculated crops; I attended markets; and, in short, in spite of the devil, and the world, and thejlesk, I believe I should have been a wise man ; but the...lost half our crops. This overset all my wisdom, and I returned, like t7ic dog to Ms vomit, and the sow that was washed, to her wallowing in the mire*.... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1819 - 388 Seiten
...attended markets ; and, in short, in spite of the devil, a/id the world, and the flesh, I believe 1 should have been a wise man ; but the first year,...crops. This overset all my wisdom, and 1 returned, lihe the dog to his vomit, and the sow that teas washed, to her wallowing in the mire. I now began... | |
 | 1824 - 312 Seiten
...read farming books, I alculated crops ; I attended may> Dd kets, and in short, in spite of the devil, the world, and the flesh, I believe I should have...lost half our crops. This overset all my wisdom, and I returned to my old habits. " I now began to be known in the neighbourhood as a maker of rhymes. The... | |
 | Robert Burns, Alfred Howard - 1826 - 226 Seiten
...Come, go to, I will be wise !' I read farming books; I calculated crops ; I attended markets; and, in short, in spite of ' the devil, and the world,...lost half our cropS. This overset all my wisdom, and I returned, ' like the dog to his vomit, and the sow that was washed, to her wallowing in the mire.'... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1826 - 272 Seiten
...Come go to, I will be wise !' I read farming books ; I calculated crops ; I attended markets ; and, in short, in spite of 'the devil, and the world, and...lost half our crops. This overset all my wisdom, and I returned, • like the dog to his vomit, and the sow that was washed, to her wallowing in the mire.'... | |
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