...for God's word, And an habitual piety, maintained With strictness scarcely known on English ground. From his sixth year, the Boy of whom I speak, In summer,...perilous days Of long-continuing winter, he repaired To his Step-father's School, that stood alone, Sole Building on a mountain's dreary edge, Far from...

...individuals, few in number, remote in locality, distant in time, and scattered through every rank of life. ' From his sixth year, the Boy of whom I speak, In summer,...perilous days Of long-continuing winter, he repaired To his Step-father's School, that stood alone, Sole Building on a mountain's dreary edge, Far from...

...We give the following lines, (which occur almost at the beginning of the poem) by way of example: ' From his sixth year, the boy of whom I speak, In summer,...perilous days Of long-continuing winter, he repaired To his step-father's school, that stood alone, Sole building on a mountain's dreary edge, Far from...

...few in • number, remote in locality, distant in time, and scattered through every rank of life. f From his sixth year, the Boy of whom I speak, In summer,...Hills ; But, through the inclement and the perilous dayi Of long-continuing winter, he repaired To his Step-father's School, that stood alone, Sole Building...

...the teacher of the Village School ; Who on her offspring zealously bestowed Needful instruction." " From his sixth year, the Boy of whom I speak, In summer,...perilous days Of long-continuing winter, he repaired To his step-father's school." — &c. For all the admirable passages interposed in this narration,...

...the two poets have often met, and always expressed the highest admiration for each other. He says, " From his sixth year, the boy of whom I speak, In summer tended cattle on the hills." s I believe poor H tended them in winter also. -" From that bleak tenement, He many an evening to his...

...the two poets have often met, and always expressed the highest admiration for each other. He says. " From his sixth year, the boy of whom I speak, In summer tended cattle on toe hills." I believe poor Hogg tended them in winter also. -" From that bleak tenement, He many an...

...for God's word, And an habitual piety, maintain'd With strictness scarcely known on English ground. From his sixth year, the Boy of whom I speak, In summer,...and the perilous days Of long-continuing winter, he repair'd, Equipp'd with satchel, to a School, that stood Sole Building on a mountain's dreary edge,...

...maintain'd Vith strictness scarcely known on English ground. From his sixth year, the Boy of whom I speak, n summer, tended cattle on the Hills; But, through the inclement and the perilous days >f long-continuing winter, he repair'd, ^quipp'd with satchel, to a School, that stood Sole Building...

...Espoused the teacher of the Village School; Who on her offspring zealously bestowed Needful instruction." "From his sixth year, the boy of whom I speak, In...perilous days Of long-continuing winter, he repaired To his step-father's school." — &c. For all the admirable passages interposed in this narration might,...