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... edition of The Tea - Table Miscellany ; in other instances where I have quoted from eighteenth - century works I have cited the editions in the text . In quoting from Burns's Commonplace Book I have used the facsimile edition of Ewing ...
... edition of The Tea - Table Miscellany ; in other instances where I have quoted from eighteenth - century works I have cited the editions in the text . In quoting from Burns's Commonplace Book I have used the facsimile edition of Ewing ...
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... edition and which he included now because he thought they would be congenial to the taste of his new patrons . They add little to the value of the book . There were twenty - two poems in the Edinburgh edition which had not been included ...
... edition and which he included now because he thought they would be congenial to the taste of his new patrons . They add little to the value of the book . There were twenty - two poems in the Edinburgh edition which had not been included ...
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... edition . The most important part of Burns's mission in Edinburgh had thus been successful . He had published his second edition there , under the very best auspices . The reviews were favorable ( though the Edinburgh edition started ...
... edition . The most important part of Burns's mission in Edinburgh had thus been successful . He had published his second edition there , under the very best auspices . The reviews were favorable ( though the Edinburgh edition started ...
Contents
Preface V | 1 |
Chapter Two GROWTH OF A POET | 34 |
Chapter Three THE KILMARNOCK VOLUME | 105 |
Copyright | |
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