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Page 85
... looks sae proud & high . - ... But Tibby lass tak ' my advice Your father's gear mak's you sae nice The de'il a ane ... look sae high.— The contempt reaches its climax in that almost epigrammatic final verse . The last entry in 1784 is ...
... looks sae proud & high . - ... But Tibby lass tak ' my advice Your father's gear mak's you sae nice The de'il a ane ... look sae high.— The contempt reaches its climax in that almost epigrammatic final verse . The last entry in 1784 is ...
Page 157
... look amaist as weel's the new ; The Father mixes a ' wi ' admonition due . Terms like " social hours " hardly sort well with such straightforward expressions as " each tells the uncos that he sees or hears , " while in the last four ...
... look amaist as weel's the new ; The Father mixes a ' wi ' admonition due . Terms like " social hours " hardly sort well with such straightforward expressions as " each tells the uncos that he sees or hears , " while in the last four ...
Page 237
... looks in any of the portraits . I would have taken the poet , had I not known what he was , for a very sagacious ... look down on the future as I would into the bottomless pit . " So he wrote to Aiken on December 16 , and about the ...
... looks in any of the portraits . I would have taken the poet , had I not known what he was , for a very sagacious ... look down on the future as I would into the bottomless pit . " So he wrote to Aiken on December 16 , and about the ...
Contents
Preface | 1 |
Chapter Two GROWTH OF A POET | 34 |
Chapter Three THE KILMARNOCK VOLUME | 105 |
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