 I have often courted the acquaintance of that part of mankind commonly known by the ordinary phrase of blackguards, sometimes farther than was consistent with the safety of my character ; those who, by thoughtless prodigality or headstrong passions, have...  The Foreign Quarterly Review - Página 341841Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
 | 1854 - 780 páginas
...of blackguards;" anil that, "though disgraced by follies, nay, sometimes stained with guilt, he had yet found among them, in not a few instances, some of the noblest virtues — mngnnnimity, generosity, disinterested friendship, and even modesty." I cannot say with the poet,... | |
 | Hugh Miller - 1854 - 572 páginas
...of blackguards ;" and that, " though disgraced by follies, nay, sometimes stained with guilt, he had yet found among them, in not a few instances, some of the noblest vir tues, — magnanimity, generosity, disinterested friendship, and even modesty." I cannot say with... | |
 | William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone - 1854 - 776 páginas
...disgraced by follies, nay, sometimes stained with guilt, lie had yet found among them, in not a fe\v instances, some of the noblest virtues — magnanimity,...generosity, disinterested friendship, and even modesty." I cannot say with the poet, that I ever courted the acquaintance of blackguards; but though the labouring... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1855 - 562 páginas
...character ; those who by thoughtless prodigality or headstrong passions, have been driven to ruin. Though disgraced by follies, nay sometimes, stained...generosity, disinterested friendship, and even modesty. April. As I am what the men of the world, if they knew such a man, would call a whimsical mortal, I... | |
 | Hugh Miller - 1855 - 560 páginas
...of blackguards /' and that, " though disgraced by follies, nay, sometimes stained with guilt, he had yet found among them, in not a few instances, some...generosity, disinterested friendship, and even modesty." I cannot say with the poet that I ever courted the acquaintance of blackguards ; but though the laboring... | |
 | Hugh Miller - 1855 - 570 páginas
...of blackguards ;" and that, " though disgraced by follies, nay, sometimes stained with guilt, he had yet found among them, in not a few instances, some...generosity, disinterested friendship, and even modesty." I cannot say with the poet that I ever courted the acquaintance of blackguards ; but though the laboring... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1856 - 728 páginas
...a brother's eye. who, by thoughtless prodigality or headstrong passions, have been driven to ruin. Though disgraced by follies, nay, sometimes stained...magnanimity, generosity, disinterested friendship, and even modesty.1 He here probably makes allusion to some of his Irvine companionships. The ensuing entries... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1859 - 736 páginas
...charaeter ; those who, by thoughtless prodigality or headstrong passions, have been driven to ruin. Though disgraced by follies, nay, sometimes stained...magnanimity, generosity, disinterested friendship, and eren modesty. April As I am what the men of the world, if they knew such a man, would call a whimsical... | |
 | Hugh Miller - 1865 - 572 páginas
...of blackguards ;" and that, " though disgraced by follies, nay, sometimes stained with guilt, he had yet found among them, in not a few instances, some of the noblest virtues,—magnanimity, generosity, disinterested friendship, and even modesty." I cannot say with... | |
 | Robert Burns, Alexander Smith - 1868 - 688 páginas
...character ; those who, by thoughtless prodigality or headstrong passions, have been driven to ruin. Though disgraced by follies, nay. sometimes stained...generosity, disinterested friendship, and even modesty. April. As I am what the men of the world, if they knew such a man, would call a whimsical mortal, I... | |
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