 I had been for some days skulking from covert to covert, under all the terrors of a jail; as some ill-advised people had uncoupled the merciless pack of the law at my heels. I had taken the last farewell of my few friends; my chest was on the road to...  Life of Robert Burns - Page 97by John Gibson Lockhart - 1831 - 320 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Robert Burns - 1800 - 424 pages
...Clyde, " for, " Hungry ruin had me in the wind. "' I had been for some days skulking from co" vert to covert, under all the terrors of a jail ; as " some ill-advised people had uncoupled the mertf ciless pack of the law at my heels. I had taken " the last farewell of my few friends ; my chest... | |
 | Robert Forsyth - Agriculture - 1805 - 616 pages
...from covert to covert, under all the terrors of a jail ; as some ill-advised people had uncoupled all the merciless pack of the law at my heels. I had taken the last farewell of my few friends; mj chest was on the road to Greenock ; I had composed the last song I should ever measure in Caledonia,... | |
 | Robert Forsyth - Agriculture - 1805 - 616 pages
...to sail from the Clyde ; for Hungry ruin had me in the wind. I had for some days been skulking from covert to covert, under all the terrors of a jail ; as some ill-advised people had uncoupled all the merciless pack of the law at my heels. I had taken the last farewell of my few friends ; my... | |
 | Robert Forsyth - Agriculture - 1805 - 616 pages
...Clyde ; for Hungry ruin had me in the wind. v I bad for some days been skulking from covert to coTert> Under all the terrors of a jail ; as some ill-advised people had uncoupled all the merciless pack of the law at my heels. I had taken the last farewell of my few friends ; my... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1806 - 422 pages
...sail from the Clyde ; for " Hungry ruin had me in the wind." " I had been for some days skulking from covert to covert, under all the terrors of a jail...the last farewell ,of my few friends ; my chest was o» the road to Greenock ; I had composed the last song I should ever measure in Caledonia, The gloomy... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1814 - 306 pages
...meic.less puck or the iiw at my heels. I had ken thv last fire well of m*jr friendi ; «y chest was ou the road to Greenock ; I had composed the last song I should ever measure iu Caledonia : - The gloomy night is gathering farf,' when a letter from Dr. Blacklock to a friend... | |
 | Robert Burns, James Currie - Scotland - 1814 - 502 pages
...for, 4 Hungry ruin had me in the wind.' '- I Had heen for some days skulking from eovert to eovert, under all the terrors of a jail; as some ill-advised people had uneoupled the mereiless paek of the law at my heels. I had taken the last farewell of my few friends... | |
 | Joseph Robertson, Society of Ancient Scots - Poets, Scottish - 1821 - 414 pages
...to sail from the Clyde, for Hungry ruin had me in the wind. I had for some days been skulking from covert to covert, under all the terrors of a jail ; as some ill-advised people had, (on account of his about-to-be paternal relation,) uncoupled all the merciless pack of the law at my... | |
 | Society of ancient Scots - 1821 - 226 pages
...to sail from the Clyde, for Hungry ruin had me in the wind. I had for some days been skulking from covert to covert, under all the terrors of a jail ; as some ill-advised people had, (on account of his about-to-be paternal relation,) uncoupled all the merciless pack of the law at my... | |
 | Joseph Robertson, Society of Ancient Scots, London - Authors, Scottish - 1822 - 458 pages
...to sail from the Clyde, for Hungry ruin had me in the wind. 1 had for some days been skulking from covert to covert, under all the terrors of a jail ; as some ill-advised people had, (on account of his about-to-be paternal relation,) uncoupled all the merciless pack of the law at my... | |
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