 | Electronic journals - 1920 - 978 pages
...watched every means of information to see how much ground I occupied as a man and a poet I can say that pauvre inconnu as I then was, I had pretty nearly as high an idea of myself and of my works as I have at this moment when the public has decided in their favor." It is... | |
 | Jacobus Henricus van't Hoff - 1912 - 786 pages
...called a clever fellow, even though it should never reach my ears", oder auch: „I can truly say, that pauvre inconnu as I then was, I had pretty nearly as high an idea of myself and of my works as I have at this moment, when the public has decided in their favour", legt... | |
 | Books and bookselling - 1800 - 534 pages
...clever fellow, even though it fhould never reach my ears — a poor negrodriver — or perhaps a viflim to that inhofpitable clime, and gone to the world of fpirits ! I can truly fay, that fauvre inconnu as I then was, I had pretty nearly as high an idea of myielfand of my works, as I have... | |
 | Robert Burns - Poetry - 2004 - 456 pages
...to that inhospitable clime, and gone to the world of spirits! I can truly say, that _pauvre inconnu_ as I then was, I had pretty nearly as high an idea of myself and of my works as I have at this moment, when the public has decided in their favour. It ever... | |
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I should be called a clever fellow, even though it should never reach my ears - a poor Negrodriver - or perhaps a victim to that inhospitable clime, and gone to the world of spirits! I can truly say... 
