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... Edinburgh life and described them in a verse which combined liveliness , a sure and crafts- manlike use of imagery ... Edinburgh lives with all its warmth and colour in such poems as " The Daft Days ' , " The King's Birthday in Edinburgh ...
... Edinburgh life and described them in a verse which combined liveliness , a sure and crafts- manlike use of imagery ... Edinburgh lives with all its warmth and colour in such poems as " The Daft Days ' , " The King's Birthday in Edinburgh ...
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... Edinburgh that Fergusson had known and celebrated . Burns can have had little time for writing poetry while he was being lionized in Edinburgh . The lively and amusing ' Address to a Haggis ' is one of the few good vernacular poems ...
... Edinburgh that Fergusson had known and celebrated . Burns can have had little time for writing poetry while he was being lionized in Edinburgh . The lively and amusing ' Address to a Haggis ' is one of the few good vernacular poems ...
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... Edinburgh . The Excise appointment moved slowly , and Burns became more and more inclined to accept Patrick Miller's offer of a lease on his farm . Back in Edinburgh in the middle of March , he wrote to Peggy Chalmers : " Yesternight I ...
... Edinburgh . The Excise appointment moved slowly , and Burns became more and more inclined to accept Patrick Miller's offer of a lease on his farm . Back in Edinburgh in the middle of March , he wrote to Peggy Chalmers : " Yesternight I ...
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