...November, 1814. DISCIPLINE. CHAPTER I. —I was wayward, bold, and wild : A self-willed imp ; agrandame's child ; But, half a plague and half a jest, Was still endured, belored, rarest. WJU.TEB Scon. X HAVE heard it remarked, that he who writes his own history ought to...

...— his grandfather's farm at Sandyknow : — •'- For I was wayward, bold, and wild, A self-willed imp, a grandame's child ; But half a plague, and half a jest, Wai still endured, beloved, carest." Neither was his experience of pain derived from poverty, from...

...youth its glance had been ; Whose doom discording neighbours sought, Content with equity unbought ; To him the venerable priest, Our frequent and familiar...was wayward, bold, and wild, A self-will'd imp, a grand-dame's child ; But half a plague, and half a jest, Was still endur'd, belov'd, caress'd." It...

...youth its glance had been ; Whose doom discording neighbours sought, Content with equity unbought ; To him the venerable priest, Our frequent and familiar...was wayward, bold, and wild, A self-will'd imp, a grand-dame's child ; But half a plague, and half a jest, Was still endur'd, belov'd, caress'd." It...

...to Mr John Martin, the minister of Mertoun, in which parish Smailholm Tower stood, he proceeds — " Alas ! whose speech too oft I broke With gambol rude...plague, and half a jest, Was still endured, beloved, caress'd." We realise here the oft-repeated picture of children nursed under the eye and roof of their...

...imp," we have his own authority for saying, but then he goes on to add what we can readily believe, " But half a plague and half a jest Was still endured, beloved, carest." of his frolics than his studies, we may conclude that the wild nature was still uppermost in him. Among...

...youth its glance had been ; Whose doom discording neighbours sought, Content with equity unbought : To him the venerable Priest, Our frequent and familiar...whose speech too oft I broke With gambol rude and timeles joke : For I was wayward, bold, and wild, A self-will'd imp, a grandame's child ; But half...

...youth its glance had been ; Whose doom discording neighbours sought, Content with equity unbought; To him the venerable Priest, Our frequent and familiar...could paint Alike the student and the saint ; Alas I whose speech too oft I broke With gambol rude and timeless joke z For I was wayward, bold, and wild,...

...home — his grandfather's farm at Sandyknow : — " For I was wayward, bold, and wild, A self-willed imp, a grandame's child ; But half a plague, and half a jest, Was still endured, beloved, carest." Neither was his experience of pain derived from poverty, from a baffling of desires, from a deprivation...

...home — his grandfather's farm at Sandyknow : — " For I was wayward, bold, and wild, A self-willed imp, a grandame's child ; But half a plague, and half a jest, Was still endured, beloved, earest." Neither was his experience of pain derived from poverty, from a baffling of desires, from...