 Sir William Wallace. Hannibal gave my young ideas such a turn, that I used to strut in raptures up and down after the recruiting drum and bagpipe, and wish myself tall enough to be a soldier ; while the story of Wallace poured a...  Lives of Eminent Scotsmen - Seite 158von Joseph Robertson, Society of Ancient Scots - 1821Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | John Stark (of Edinburgh.) - 1805 - 452 Seiten
...life) " I ever lead in private, and which gave me more pleasure than any tw» books I ever read since, were, the Life of Hannibal, and the History of Sir William Wallace. Hannibal gave my young ideas such a turn, that 1 used to strut in raptures up and down after the recruiting... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1806 - 422 Seiten
...books I ever read in private, and which gave me more pleasure than any two books I ever read since, were, The Life of Hannibal, and The History of Sir William Wallace. Hannibal gave my young ideas such a turn, that I used to strut in raptures up and down after the recruiting... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1816 - 714 Seiten
...books I ever read in private, and which gave me more pleasure than any two books I ever read since, were, The Life of Hannibal, and The History of Sir William Wallace. Hannibal gave my young ideas such a turn, that I used to strut in raptures up and down after the recruiting... | |
 | Joseph Robertson, Society of Ancient Scots, London - 1822 - 458 Seiten
...his earliest favorites. One half stanza of the latter was, in particular, music to his boyish car, and will be instantly recognized by many, as having...the culture of the understanding, could they have prohably had a better. He was both an intelligent and a well informed man, and was extremely studious... | |
 | Joseph Clinton Robertson - 1822 - 414 Seiten
...bteit, 0 Lord ! were his earliest favorites. One half staifta of the p 2 160 LIVES OF EMINENT SCOTSMEN. latter was, in particular, music to his boyish ear,...thither, to take his boys home, and became himself tneir future preceptor. A more zealous one they could not have had ; nor, in as far as concerns the... | |
 | 1823 - 848 Seiten
...books I ever read in private, and which gave me more pleasure than any two books I ever read since, were, The Life of Hannibal, and The History of Sir William Wallace. Hannibal gave my young ideas such a turn, that I used to strut in raptures, up and down after the recruiting... | |
 | 1824 - 312 Seiten
...books I ever read in private, and which gave me more pleasure than any two books I ever read since, were the Life of Hannibal, and the History of Sir William Wallace. Hannibal gave my young ideas such a turn, that I used to strut in raptures up and down after the recruiting... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1826 - 272 Seiten
...books I ever read in private, and which gave me more pleasure than any two books I ever read since, were the Life of Hannibal, and the History of Sir William Wallace. Hannibal gave my young ideas such a turn, that I used to strut in raptures up and down after the recruiting... | |
 | Robert Burns, Alfred Howard - 1826 - 226 Seiten
...books I ever read in private, and which gave me more pleasure than any two books I ever read since, were, The Life of Hannibal, and The History of Sir William Wallace. Hannibal gave my young ideas such a turn, that I used to strut in raptures up and down after the recruiting... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1828 - 324 Seiten
...books I ever read in private, and which gave me more pleasure than any two books I ever read since, were, The Life of Hannibal, and The History of Sir William Wallace.* Hannibal gave my young ideas such a turn, that I used to strut in raptures up and down after the recruiting... | |
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