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... whole family , and was a joint concern among us . Every member of the family was allowed ordi- nary wages for the labour he performed on the farm . My brother's allowance and mine was seven pounds per annum each . And during the whole ...
... whole family , and was a joint concern among us . Every member of the family was allowed ordi- nary wages for the labour he performed on the farm . My brother's allowance and mine was seven pounds per annum each . And during the whole ...
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... whole they are justified , even though the point is not that Pope , Thomson , Goldsmith , " and even Milton " ( why the influence of Milton should be surprising is not clear ) influenced Burns's style in this poem but that in compos ...
... whole they are justified , even though the point is not that Pope , Thomson , Goldsmith , " and even Milton " ( why the influence of Milton should be surprising is not clear ) influenced Burns's style in this poem but that in compos ...
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... whole pivots . We are held by this romantic figure of the horseman bidding an eter- nal farewell to his love , and in the last two verses the poem turns into a personal love elegy : livelong The soger frae the wars returns , The sailor ...
... whole pivots . We are held by this romantic figure of the horseman bidding an eter- nal farewell to his love , and in the last two verses the poem turns into a personal love elegy : livelong The soger frae the wars returns , The sailor ...
Contents
Preface | 1 |
Chapter Two GROWTH OF A POET | 34 |
Chapter Three THE KILMARNOCK VOLUME | 105 |
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