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The farther from that immediate neighbourhood he got , the less unpopular his views would appear ; it is significant that when Hamilton appealed from the Kirk Session to the Presbytery of Ayr the Presbytery found in his favour ...
The farther from that immediate neighbourhood he got , the less unpopular his views would appear ; it is significant that when Hamilton appealed from the Kirk Session to the Presbytery of Ayr the Presbytery found in his favour ...
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Burns's association with George Thomson was in many ways less satisfactory than that with Johnson . Unlike the humble Johnson , Thomson was educated and genteel , anxious to refine Scots out of Scots songs and to substitute conventional ...
Burns's association with George Thomson was in many ways less satisfactory than that with Johnson . Unlike the humble Johnson , Thomson was educated and genteel , anxious to refine Scots out of Scots songs and to substitute conventional ...
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A poem which depends for its effect even less on the music is " Thou Ling'ring Star with Less'ning Ray ' , sometimes entitled ' To Mary in Heaven ' and in the Scots Musical Museum ( volume three ) entitled ' My Mary , Dear Departed ...
A poem which depends for its effect even less on the music is " Thou Ling'ring Star with Less'ning Ray ' , sometimes entitled ' To Mary in Heaven ' and in the Scots Musical Museum ( volume three ) entitled ' My Mary , Dear Departed ...
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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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