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... two volumes of Richardson's Pamela from ' a bookish acquain- tance of my father's ' ; - ' the only part of Richardson's works my brother was acquainted with ' , comments Gilbert , ' till towards the period of his commencing author .
... two volumes of Richardson's Pamela from ' a bookish acquain- tance of my father's ' ; - ' the only part of Richardson's works my brother was acquainted with ' , comments Gilbert , ' till towards the period of his commencing author .
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My life flowed on much in the same tenor till my twenty third year ' , says the autobiographical letter , speaking of this period . ' Vive l'amour et vive la bagatelle , were my sole principles of action . - The addition of two more ...
My life flowed on much in the same tenor till my twenty third year ' , says the autobiographical letter , speaking of this period . ' Vive l'amour et vive la bagatelle , were my sole principles of action . - The addition of two more ...
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In spite of the continuous demands on his time at Ellisland , and in spite , too , of bouts of serious illness , Burns seems to have done a considerable amount of reading at this period . Peter Hill had by now set up as a bookseller on ...
In spite of the continuous demands on his time at Ellisland , and in spite , too , of bouts of serious illness , Burns seems to have done a considerable amount of reading at this period . Peter Hill had by now set up as a bookseller on ...
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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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