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... Thomson's project if Thomson wanted English verses , cheer- fully replied : You may readily trust me , my dear Sir , that any exertion in my power , is heartily at your service . — But one thing I must hint to you , the very name of ...
... Thomson's project if Thomson wanted English verses , cheer- fully replied : You may readily trust me , my dear Sir , that any exertion in my power , is heartily at your service . — But one thing I must hint to you , the very name of ...
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... Thomson , " he wrote some three months before he died , " I fear it will be some time ere I tune my lyre again ! . . . —Almost ever since I wrote you last , I have known Existence by the pressure of the heavy hand of Sickness ; & have ...
... Thomson , " he wrote some three months before he died , " I fear it will be some time ere I tune my lyre again ! . . . —Almost ever since I wrote you last , I have known Existence by the pressure of the heavy hand of Sickness ; & have ...
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... Thomson in reading And days o ' lang syne ? at the end of the first verse . The version which appeared in Thom- son's Scottish Airs , 1799 , is , as we should expect , the same as that communicated to Thomson in 1793. Here for the first ...
... Thomson in reading And days o ' lang syne ? at the end of the first verse . The version which appeared in Thom- son's Scottish Airs , 1799 , is , as we should expect , the same as that communicated to Thomson in 1793. Here for the first ...
Contents
Preface | 1 |
Chapter Two GROWTH OF A POET | 34 |
Chapter Three THE KILMARNOCK VOLUME | 105 |
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