Life of Robert BurnsWilliam Tegg, 1828 - 315 pages |
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... Poet's works , which it was expressly designed to accom- pany ; and the regretted projector of Con- stable's Miscellany * sought in vain for any other narrative sufficiently detailed to meet the purposes of his publication . The last ...
... Poet's works , which it was expressly designed to accom- pany ; and the regretted projector of Con- stable's Miscellany * sought in vain for any other narrative sufficiently detailed to meet the purposes of his publication . The last ...
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... poet's productions is the little ballad , " O once I loved a bonnie lass , Ay , and I love her still , And whilst ... poet , long afterwards , " I am always pleased with this song , as it recalls to my mind those happy days when 24 LIFE ...
... poet's productions is the little ballad , " O once I loved a bonnie lass , Ay , and I love her still , And whilst ... poet , long afterwards , " I am always pleased with this song , as it recalls to my mind those happy days when 24 LIFE ...
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... - ed with honour . Here his friendship did me a mischief . " Professor Walker , when preparing to write his Sketch of the Poet's life , was in- formed by an aged inhabitant of Irvine , that Burns's 52 LIFE OF ROBERT BURNS .
... - ed with honour . Here his friendship did me a mischief . " Professor Walker , when preparing to write his Sketch of the Poet's life , was in- formed by an aged inhabitant of Irvine , that Burns's 52 LIFE OF ROBERT BURNS .
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... poet's own vigour and resources , at these club- meetings , and ( more frequently than his brother approved ) at the Free - Mason Lodges of Irvine and Tarbolton , extended his rural reputation ; and , by degrees , prepared persons not ...
... poet's own vigour and resources , at these club- meetings , and ( more frequently than his brother approved ) at the Free - Mason Lodges of Irvine and Tarbolton , extended his rural reputation ; and , by degrees , prepared persons not ...
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... Poet's Welcome to an Illegitimate Child was composed on the same occasion - a piece in which some very manly ... poet as glorying , and only glorying , in his shame . When I consider his tender affection for the surviving members of his ...
... Poet's Welcome to an Illegitimate Child was composed on the same occasion - a piece in which some very manly ... poet as glorying , and only glorying , in his shame . When I consider his tender affection for the surviving members of his ...
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