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... and though many regarded the settlement as both unfair and unfavourable , there was a breathing spell , there was a kind of empty quiet , and there was vitality enough left in the country to fill this emptiness .
... and though many regarded the settlement as both unfair and unfavourable , there was a breathing spell , there was a kind of empty quiet , and there was vitality enough left in the country to fill this emptiness .
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A duty poem of a different kind was written by Burns in response to a request of a group of Jacobites to write them a ' Birthday Ode for 31st Decem- . ber , 1787 ' . Here he attempts to whip up Jacobite feeling in an ode modelled on ...
A duty poem of a different kind was written by Burns in response to a request of a group of Jacobites to write them a ' Birthday Ode for 31st Decem- . ber , 1787 ' . Here he attempts to whip up Jacobite feeling in an ode modelled on ...
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He speaks in these letters with the greatest precision and assurance of crochets and quavers and different kinds of tempo and of the kind of accompaniment required by a specific kind of song . How much musical education Burns received ...
He speaks in these letters with the greatest precision and assurance of crochets and quavers and different kinds of tempo and of the kind of accompaniment required by a specific kind of song . How much musical education Burns received ...
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| Title | Robert Burns |
| Author | David Daiches |
| Edition | revised |
| Publisher | Macmillan, 1966 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 25 Apr 2006 |
| Length | 334 pages |
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