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Page 47
A further contribution to the reading of the Burns family was ' a small collection of letters by the most eminent writers , with a few sensible directions for attaining an easy epistolary style ' , as Gilbert describes it , or , in ...
A further contribution to the reading of the Burns family was ' a small collection of letters by the most eminent writers , with a few sensible directions for attaining an easy epistolary style ' , as Gilbert describes it , or , in ...
Page 69
In one of my visits to Lochlie , in time of a sowen supper , he was so intent on reading , I think " Tristram Shandy ' , that his spoon falling out of his hand , made him exclaim , in a tone scarcely imitable , ' Alas , poor Yorick !
In one of my visits to Lochlie , in time of a sowen supper , he was so intent on reading , I think " Tristram Shandy ' , that his spoon falling out of his hand , made him exclaim , in a tone scarcely imitable , ' Alas , poor Yorick !
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... 53-4 , SS ; life at Mount Oliphant , 46-54 ; reading , 46-8 ; first attempt at poetry , 50-3 , 58 ; studies surveying , 53-4 At Lochlie and Irvine ( 1777-84 ) , 54-71 reading , 56 , 61 , 70 ; attends dancing school , 56 ; early love ...
... 53-4 , SS ; life at Mount Oliphant , 46-54 ; reading , 46-8 ; first attempt at poetry , 50-3 , 58 ; studies surveying , 53-4 At Lochlie and Irvine ( 1777-84 ) , 54-71 reading , 56 , 61 , 70 ; attends dancing school , 56 ; early love ...
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