Scottish Landscape by Lewis Grassic Gibbon

Author:Lewis Grassic Gibbon [Various]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781910486146
Publisher: Palimpsest Book Production Limited
Published: 2014-07-14T00:00:00+00:00

‘Quite so!’ said the poet; ‘it’s long since I learned that philosophy for mysel’, but what o’clock did ye say was the lady’s tea?’

An injured knee kept Burns to his lodgings for some days after this, and he missed the chance of drinking tea with Mrs Maclehose, on whose charms of person and mind he had the better opportunity for musing. One evening, after a succession of blythe and roystering visitors, in a state of pleasant exaltation he wrote the lady a letter, drafting it carefully first in the very best style of ‘The Elegant Letter Writer,’ on which he and Gilbert had one time modelled their correspondence.

I do love you, if possible, still better for having so fine a taste and turn in poesy (he wrote). I have again gone wrong in my usual unguarded way, but you may erase the word, and put esteem, respect, or any other tame Dutch expression you please in its place. I believe there is no holding converse or carrying on correspondence with an amiable woman – much less a GLORIOUSLY AMIABLE FINE WOMAN, without some mixture of that delicious passion whose most devoted slave I have more than once had the honour of being.

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