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... hand left over from previous volumes , he took almost seven years to bring out the sixth and final volume . The vast majority of his own contributions to the Museum were never publicly acknowledged by Burns . The index to the third vol ...
... hand left over from previous volumes , he took almost seven years to bring out the sixth and final volume . The vast majority of his own contributions to the Museum were never publicly acknowledged by Burns . The index to the third vol ...
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... hand of Sickness ; & have counted time by the repercussions of PAIN ! " Yet in a week or two later he was writing again to Thomson about “ an air which I have long admired " which he was in the process of composing verses for . On June ...
... hand of Sickness ; & have counted time by the repercussions of PAIN ! " Yet in a week or two later he was writing again to Thomson about “ an air which I have long admired " which he was in the process of composing verses for . On June ...
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... hand , my trusty feire , And gie's a hand o ' thine ; And we'll tak a right gude - willie waught , For auld lang syne.— For auld & c . And surely ye'll be your pint - stowp , And surely I'll be mine ; And we'll tak a cup o ' kindness ...
... hand , my trusty feire , And gie's a hand o ' thine ; And we'll tak a right gude - willie waught , For auld lang syne.— For auld & c . And surely ye'll be your pint - stowp , And surely I'll be mine ; And we'll tak a cup o ' kindness ...
Contents
Preface | 1 |
Chapter Two GROWTH OF A POET | 34 |
Chapter Three THE KILMARNOCK VOLUME | 105 |
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