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... period of Murdoch's reappearance at Ayr , which produced Robert's second , though brief , period of discipleship . Murdoch seems to have taken a genuine interest in the Burns family . ' He sent us Pope's works ' , records Gilbert ...
... period of Murdoch's reappearance at Ayr , which produced Robert's second , though brief , period of discipleship . Murdoch seems to have taken a genuine interest in the Burns family . ' He sent us Pope's works ' , records Gilbert ...
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... period . ' Vive l'amour et vive la bagatelle , were my sole principles of action . - The addition of two more Authors to my library gave me great pleasure ; Sterne and Mackenzie . - Tristram Shandy and the Man of Feeling were my bosom ...
... period . ' Vive l'amour et vive la bagatelle , were my sole principles of action . - The addition of two more Authors to my library gave me great pleasure ; Sterne and Mackenzie . - Tristram Shandy and the Man of Feeling were my bosom ...
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... period . Peter Hill had by now set up as a bookseller on his own , and Burns's letters to him contain numerous orders for books - Smollett's novels , Elizabethan and seventeenth- ยท century drama ( Shakespeare , Ben Jonson , Otway ...
... period . Peter Hill had by now set up as a bookseller on his own , and Burns's letters to him contain numerous orders for books - Smollett's novels , Elizabethan and seventeenth- ยท century drama ( Shakespeare , Ben Jonson , Otway ...
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