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... volume Robert ' pored over most devoutly ' , and it joined with other influences in making his epistolary style excessively formal . ( Though Gilbert tells us that it included directions for attaining an easy epistolary style , it ...
... volume Robert ' pored over most devoutly ' , and it joined with other influences in making his epistolary style excessively formal . ( Though Gilbert tells us that it included directions for attaining an easy epistolary style , it ...
Page 177
... volume are exercises in a contemporary fashion which need not detain us , and the handful of songs , inserted for a similar purpose , will be dis- cussed in our final chapter , which treats ... Volume was far from THE KILMARNOCK VOLUME 177.
... volume are exercises in a contemporary fashion which need not detain us , and the handful of songs , inserted for a similar purpose , will be dis- cussed in our final chapter , which treats ... Volume was far from THE KILMARNOCK VOLUME 177.
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... volume of the Museum was almost ready to go to press when Johnson and Burns met , so that , published in 1787 , it contained only two songs by Burns , ' Green Grow the Rashes , O ' and ' Young Peggy Blooms Our Bonniest Lass ' . Volume ...
... volume of the Museum was almost ready to go to press when Johnson and Burns met , so that , published in 1787 , it contained only two songs by Burns , ' Green Grow the Rashes , O ' and ' Young Peggy Blooms Our Bonniest Lass ' . Volume ...
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