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Page 47
... seems to have dealt with the reigns of the later Stuarts . This brings us to the period of Murdoch's reappearance at Ayr , which produced Robert's second , though brief , period of discipleship . Murdoch seems to have taken a genuine ...
... seems to have dealt with the reigns of the later Stuarts . This brings us to the period of Murdoch's reappearance at Ayr , which produced Robert's second , though brief , period of discipleship . Murdoch seems to have taken a genuine ...
Page 101
... seems never to have doubted . ' I can truly say ' , he adds in the same letter , ' that pauvre Inconnu as I then was , I had pretty nearly as high an idea of myself and my works as I have at this moment [ August , 1787 ] ' . We have ...
... seems never to have doubted . ' I can truly say ' , he adds in the same letter , ' that pauvre Inconnu as I then was , I had pretty nearly as high an idea of myself and my works as I have at this moment [ August , 1787 ] ' . We have ...
Page 288
... seems to vanish , the toil - bent rustic becomes erect , his features brighten with sympathy ; every nerve seems to thrill with sensation , and every artery to vibrate with life . These rustic performers are indeed less to be admired ...
... seems to vanish , the toil - bent rustic becomes erect , his features brighten with sympathy ; every nerve seems to thrill with sensation , and every artery to vibrate with life . These rustic performers are indeed less to be admired ...
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