The Works of Professor Wilson of the University of Edinburgh: Essays critical and imaginativeW. Blackwood, 1857 |
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... Mossgiel , parish of Mauchline , Ayrshire 1784 The father of Burns died 1784 • Burns's first publication 1786 He entertained the intention of emigrating to the West Indies He visited Edinburgh 1786 1786 The second edition of his Poems ...
... Mossgiel , parish of Mauchline , Ayrshire 1784 The father of Burns died 1784 • Burns's first publication 1786 He entertained the intention of emigrating to the West Indies He visited Edinburgh 1786 1786 The second edition of his Poems ...
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... Mossgiel , consisting of 118 acres , at £ 90 per annum , as an asylum for the family in case of the worst . It was stocked by the property and individual savings of the whole family , and was a joint concern among us . Every member of ...
... Mossgiel , consisting of 118 acres , at £ 90 per annum , as an asylum for the family in case of the worst . It was stocked by the property and individual savings of the whole family , and was a joint concern among us . Every member of ...
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... Mossgiel , " A virtuous household , but exceeding poor . " How fared Burns during the next two years , as a peasant ... Mossgiel was the coldest of all the soils on which the family had slaved and starved - starved is too strong a word ...
... Mossgiel , " A virtuous household , but exceeding poor . " How fared Burns during the next two years , as a peasant ... Mossgiel was the coldest of all the soils on which the family had slaved and starved - starved is too strong a word ...
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... Mossgiel , an idler in the land . " How various his employments whom the world Calls idle ! " Absent in the body , we doubt not , he frequently was from his fields ; oftenest in the evenings and at night . Was he in- Nance Tinnock's ...
... Mossgiel , an idler in the land . " How various his employments whom the world Calls idle ! " Absent in the body , we doubt not , he frequently was from his fields ; oftenest in the evenings and at night . Was he in- Nance Tinnock's ...
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... Mossgiel ; but he was willing to work for his wife in ditches , or to support her for a while at home , by his wages as a negro - driver in the West Indies . A more unintelligible passage than this never occurred in the life of any ...
... Mossgiel ; but he was willing to work for his wife in ditches , or to support her for a while at home , by his wages as a negro - driver in the West Indies . A more unintelligible passage than this never occurred in the life of any ...
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Allan Cunningham Ambleside auld ballad bard beautiful believe breast breath Burns's called character charm Christabel clouds Coleridge Colonsay Cottar's Saturday Night dear death delight dream Dumfries earth Ellisland evil eyes face fancy father fear feel felt frae gauger genius George Thomson Grasmere hand happy head hear heard heart heaven Hector Macneil honour hope hour human imagination inspired knew labour lady light living look Mauchline mind moral morning Mossgiel nature never noble o'er once passion perhaps pity poem poet poet's poetical poetry poor pride racter Robert Burns round Scotland Scots wha hae Scottish seems Shanter Shuffler sing smile song soul spirit strong sweet tears tell tender thee things Thomson thou thought tion truth verse virtue voice walk whole wife wild William Burnes wonder words youth