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Page 37
... writing, under my good friend Mr. Robison, desiring that I would come and speak to him at a certain Inn, and bring my writing-book with me. This was immediately complied with. Having examined my writing, he was pleased with it; — (you ...
... writing, under my good friend Mr. Robison, desiring that I would come and speak to him at a certain Inn, and bring my writing-book with me. This was immediately complied with. Having examined my writing, he was pleased with it; — (you ...
Page 39
... writing to close friends in moments of relaxation, he did develop a fluent, informal English prose style, which ... writers with a sprinkling from the seventeenth century, and of some of the neoclassic writers of France. Though it ...
... writing to close friends in moments of relaxation, he did develop a fluent, informal English prose style, which ... writers with a sprinkling from the seventeenth century, and of some of the neoclassic writers of France. Though it ...
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... writing again to Thomson about "an air which I have long admired" which he was in the process of composing verses for. On June 1, less than two months before his death, he was writing to Johnson, asking about the progress of the fifth ...
... writing again to Thomson about "an air which I have long admired" which he was in the process of composing verses for. On June 1, less than two months before his death, he was writing to Johnson, asking about the progress of the fifth ...
Contents
Chapter Two growth of a poet | 34 |
Chapter Three the Kilmarnock volume | 105 |
Chapter Four the omitted poems | 196 |
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