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... Edinburgh in order to support his mother and himself . From 1768 , when he left St. Andrews , until 1774 , he lived frugally but not miserably in Edinburgh , spending his days in the drudgery of copying legal manuscripts and his nights ...
... Edinburgh in order to support his mother and himself . From 1768 , when he left St. Andrews , until 1774 , he lived frugally but not miserably in Edinburgh , spending his days in the drudgery of copying legal manuscripts and his nights ...
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... Edinburgh law student with whom Burns soon struck up a cheerful intimacy ; William Smellie , printer of the Edinburgh edi- tion and stalwart of the Crochallan Fencibles ; and Peter Hill , at that time clerk in William Creech's office ...
... Edinburgh law student with whom Burns soon struck up a cheerful intimacy ; William Smellie , printer of the Edinburgh edi- tion and stalwart of the Crochallan Fencibles ; and Peter Hill , at that time clerk in William Creech's office ...
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... Edinburgh in 1786 there was no one active among the literati who was really his intellectual equal . David Hume had ... ( Edinburgh : printed by John Wotherspoon for James Dick- son and Charles Elliot , 1776 ) , II , 206. The first ...
... Edinburgh in 1786 there was no one active among the literati who was really his intellectual equal . David Hume had ... ( Edinburgh : printed by John Wotherspoon for James Dick- son and Charles Elliot , 1776 ) , II , 206. The first ...
Contents
Preface V | 1 |
Chapter Two GROWTH OF A POET | 34 |
Chapter Three THE KILMARNOCK VOLUME | 105 |
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