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... glowr The distant Cumnock hills out - owre : To count her horns , wi ' a ' my pow'r I set mysel ; But whether she had three or four , I cou'd na tell . The encounter with Death is described with a cheerful nonchalance 182 ROBERT BURNS.
... glowr The distant Cumnock hills out - owre : To count her horns , wi ' a ' my pow'r I set mysel ; But whether she had three or four , I cou'd na tell . The encounter with Death is described with a cheerful nonchalance 182 ROBERT BURNS.
Page 232
Dr. Adair wrote Dr. Currie an account of this trip , in which he described excursions he and Burns made from Harvieston ' to visit various parts of the surrounding scenery , inferior to none in Scotland , in beauty , sublimity , and ...
Dr. Adair wrote Dr. Currie an account of this trip , in which he described excursions he and Burns made from Harvieston ' to visit various parts of the surrounding scenery , inferior to none in Scotland , in beauty , sublimity , and ...
Page 284
John Anderson My Jo ' is described in the same phrase , but is in fact , as we shall see , a com- pletely new version of an old bawdy song of the same title . Sometimes a song described as ' Mr. Burns's old words ' in this manuscript ...
John Anderson My Jo ' is described in the same phrase , but is in fact , as we shall see , a com- pletely new version of an old bawdy song of the same title . Sometimes a song described as ' Mr. Burns's old words ' in this manuscript ...
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