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Robert seems to have acquired a smattering of Latin from ' Mr. Robinson , the established writing - master in Ayr , and Mr. Murdoch's particular friend ' , but , though he learned enough to quote a few tags in later poems and letters ...
Robert seems to have acquired a smattering of Latin from ' Mr. Robinson , the established writing - master in Ayr , and Mr. Murdoch's particular friend ' , but , though he learned enough to quote a few tags in later poems and letters ...
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It seems probable that he promised her marriage ; one of the Bibles which they appear to have exchanged , its end papers containing inscriptions in Burns's hand dealing with the sanctity of promises , is extant , though the names of ...
It seems probable that he promised her marriage ; one of the Bibles which they appear to have exchanged , its end papers containing inscriptions in Burns's hand dealing with the sanctity of promises , is extant , though the names of ...
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That the volume would be remembered , he seems never to have doubted . ' I can truly say ' , he adds in the same letter , ' that pauvre Inconnu as I then was , I had pretty nearly as high an idea of myself and my works as I have at this ...
That the volume would be remembered , he seems never to have doubted . ' I can truly say ' , he adds in the same letter , ' that pauvre Inconnu as I then was , I had pretty nearly as high an idea of myself and my works as I have at this ...
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