...which is most' calculated to fan the sparks of generous emulation. " This kind of life," says Burns, " the cheerless gloom of a hermit, with the unceasing moil of a galley-slave, brought me to my .sixteenth year ; a little before which period I first committed the sin of rhyme."...

...factor's insolent threatening letters, which used to set us all in tears. " This kind of life—the cheerless gloom of a hermit, with the unceasing moil of a galleyslave, brought me to my sixteenth year; a little before which period I first committed the sin of Rhyme. You...

...s 1 factor's insolent threatening letters, which used to set us all in tears. This kind of life — the cheerless gloom of A hermit, with the unceasing moil of a galleyslave, brought me to my sixteenth year ; a little before which period I first committed the sin of Rhyme....

...s 1 factor's insolent threatening letters, which used to set us all in tears. This kind of life — the cheerless gloom of a hermit, with the unceasing moil of a galley-slave, brought me to my sixteenth year ; a little before which period I first committed the sin of Rhyme....

...1 factor's insolent threatening letters, which used to set us all in tears. " This kind of life — the cheerless gloom of a hermit, with the unceasing moil of a galley-slave, brought me to my loth year ; a little before which period I first committed the sin of ryhme. You know...

...scoundrel factor's insolent threatening letters, which used to set us all in tears. " This kind of life, the cheerless gloom of a hermit with the unceasing moil of a galley-slave, brought me to my 16th year; a little before which period I first committed the sin of rhyme. You know...

...factor's insolent threatening letters, which used to set us all in tearS. " This kind of life—the cheerless gloom of a hermit, with the unceasing moil of a galley-slave, -brought me to my sixteenth year; a little before which period -I first committed the sin of rhyme....

...verse, and the occasion is thus described by himself in his letter to Moore. " This kind of life—the cheerless gloom of a hermit, with the unceasing moil of a galley-slave, brought me to my sixteenth year ; a little before which period I first committed the sin of Rhyme....

...verse, and .the occasion is thus described by himself in his letter to Moore. " This kind of life — the cheerless gloom of a hermit, with the unceasing moil of a galley-slave, brought me to my sixteenth year ; a little before which period I first committed the sin of Rhyme....

...(Gilbert), who could drive the plough very well, and help me to thresh the corn. . . . This kind of life — the cheerless gloom of a hermit, with the unceasing moil of a galley-slave — brought me to my sixteenth year." On the expiration of this lease, his father took another farm....