Scottish patriotic feeling animates some of his noblest poems, and whether as an original writer-and no one could be more original-or as adapting and revising the existing poetry, he represents the essential spirit of the Scottish peasant.
"English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century"
Leslie Stephen
I neither read, write, teach, learn, nor do anything-unless indeed revising visiting books and writing invitations is to be called something.
"Lady-John-Russell"
MacCarthy, Desmond
These claims and objections are heard in September by the revising Barrister-a barrister of not less than seven years' standing, appointed for the purpose by the judge in whose circuit the constituency lies, and paid by the Treasury.
"The Government of England (Vol. I)"
A. Lawrence Lowell