 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 - Page 158by Joseph Robertson, Society of Ancient Scots - 1821Full view - About this book
 | John Stark (of Edinburgh.) - 1805 - 452 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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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