| Richard Ryan - 1826 - Страниц: 320
...in the field ; " but," says he, " I gave them the short cut at last, and left the kine in the earn, and ever since that time, I have continued a souldier abroad and at home." The singular production noticed above, which was written at the age of seventy-three, has so much of... | |
| 1826 - Страниц: 372
...in the field ; " but," says he, " I gave them the short cut at last, and left the kino in the earn ; and ever since that time, I have continued a souldier abroad and at home." He left a poem written at the age of seventy-three, dedicated to two gentlemen of the name of Scott,... | |
| Richard Ryan - 1826 - Страниц: 320
...in the field ; " but," says he, " I gave them the short cut at last, and left the kine in the earn, and ever since that time, I have continued a souldier abroad and at home." The singular production noticed above, which was written at the age of seventy-three, has so much of... | |
| Walter Scott - 1831 - Страниц: 582
...children, put this Walter to attend cattle in the field; Imi • says he, •! gave them the shurt cut at last, and left the kine in the corn; and ever since that time, 1 have continued a souldier abroad and at home. . He left a poem written at the age of seventy-three,... | |
| Walter Scott, J. W. Lake - 1838 - Страниц: 496
...cattle in the field; " but," says he, " I gave them the short cut at last, and left the kine in the com; and ever since that time, I have continued a souldier abroad and at home." He left a poem written at the age of seventy-three, dedicated to two gentlemen of the name of Scott,... | |
| Walter Scott - 1894 - Страниц: 292
...therefore, to learn that after some doubting, and when not fully sixteen years old, he gave the family " the short cut at last and left the kine in the corn." We suspect that Satchells senior, with the many mouths to feed, would be more perturbed by the upset... | |
| Nicholas Dickson, William Sanderson - 1896 - Страниц: 264
...Lilliesleaf and county of Roxburgh. Born in 1613, he, when a boy not fully 16 years old, gave his family " the short cut at last, and left the kine in the corn ;" joined the following of the first Earl of Buccleuch, and went with the earl s regiment to Holland... | |
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