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Page 152
... o'er the halland flings his een, That ilka turn is handled to his mind, That a' his housie looks sae cosh and clean; For cleanly house looes he, tho' e'er sae mean. Weel kens the gudewife that the pleughs require A heartsome meltith ...
... o'er the halland flings his een, That ilka turn is handled to his mind, That a' his housie looks sae cosh and clean; For cleanly house looes he, tho' e'er sae mean. Weel kens the gudewife that the pleughs require A heartsome meltith ...
Page 312
... O'er the muir amang the heather — In Edinburgh town they've made a law, In Edinburgh at the Court o' Session, That standin' p ks are fautors a', And guilty o' a high transgression. Decreet1 o' the Court o' Session, Act Sederunt o' the ...
... O'er the muir amang the heather — In Edinburgh town they've made a law, In Edinburgh at the Court o' Session, That standin' p ks are fautors a', And guilty o' a high transgression. Decreet1 o' the Court o' Session, Act Sederunt o' the ...
Page 343
... o'er a' the earth, have the May bear the gree, and a' that. first place For &, ^ and &, ^ Its comin yet for a' that, That man to man, the warld o'er, Shall brothers be for a' that. The poem has an immense rhetorical elan, heightened by ...
... o'er a' the earth, have the May bear the gree, and a' that. first place For &, ^ and &, ^ Its comin yet for a' that, That man to man, the warld o'er, Shall brothers be for a' that. The poem has an immense rhetorical elan, heightened by ...
Contents
Chapter Two growth of a poet | 34 |
Chapter Three the Kilmarnock volume | 105 |
Chapter Four the omitted poems | 196 |
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