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Page 54
... never failed to point me out the line of Innocence." Robert, in fact, was growing more and more restless, increasingly dissatisfied with his lot and his prospects as the son of a struggling tenant farmer. Yet he did not quite know what ...
... never failed to point me out the line of Innocence." Robert, in fact, was growing more and more restless, increasingly dissatisfied with his lot and his prospects as the son of a struggling tenant farmer. Yet he did not quite know what ...
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... never, never will I see you more! It was at this time that he began to talk of emigrating to Jamaica as a remedy for his woes. But there were many things to be done first. Jean acknowledged her fault to the Kirk Session and awaited the ...
... never, never will I see you more! It was at this time that he began to talk of emigrating to Jamaica as a remedy for his woes. But there were many things to be done first. Jean acknowledged her fault to the Kirk Session and awaited the ...
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... never once reflect On Old-long-syne? Henley and Henderson quote from a unique broadside, which was Watson's source, entitled "An Excellent and proper new ballad, en- tided Old Long Syne. Newly corrected and amended, with a large and new ...
... never once reflect On Old-long-syne? Henley and Henderson quote from a unique broadside, which was Watson's source, entitled "An Excellent and proper new ballad, en- tided Old Long Syne. Newly corrected and amended, with a large and new ...
Contents
Chapter Two growth of a poet | 34 |
Chapter Three the Kilmarnock volume | 105 |
Chapter Four the omitted poems | 196 |
Copyright | |
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