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... later , " describe the anguish of mind he felt when they [ Wil- liam and his brother ] parted on the top of a hill , on the confines of their native place , each going off their several way in search of new adventures , and scarcely ...
... later , " describe the anguish of mind he felt when they [ Wil- liam and his brother ] parted on the top of a hill , on the confines of their native place , each going off their several way in search of new adventures , and scarcely ...
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... later wrote ) contained no representa- tives of Scottish literature : it was a purely English compilation , con- taining extracts from the eighteenth - century English poets , including Thomson , Gray , and Shenstone , passages from ...
... later wrote ) contained no representa- tives of Scottish literature : it was a purely English compilation , con- taining extracts from the eighteenth - century English poets , including Thomson , Gray , and Shenstone , passages from ...
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... later main- tained that he acquired no formal knowledge at Kirkoswald , he must have learned enough mathematics to enable him in later life to handle the fairly complicated problems of measurement that faced an excise officer . His stay ...
... later main- tained that he acquired no formal knowledge at Kirkoswald , he must have learned enough mathematics to enable him in later life to handle the fairly complicated problems of measurement that faced an excise officer . His stay ...
Contents
Preface | 1 |
Chapter Two GROWTH OF A POET | 34 |
Chapter Three THE KILMARNOCK VOLUME | 105 |
Copyright | |
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