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... 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 ...
... 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 ...
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... writing to close friends in moments of relaxa- tion , 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 relaxa- tion , 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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... writers have claimed , Dr. Blacklock who saved a genius for Scotland ; it was humble James Johnson . Though much of Burns's poetic efforts were from now on given to song writing and restoring , he seems never to have regarded these ...
... writers have claimed , Dr. Blacklock who saved a genius for Scotland ; it was humble James Johnson . Though much of Burns's poetic efforts were from now on given to song writing and restoring , he seems never to have regarded these ...
Contents
Preface V | 1 |
Chapter Two GROWTH OF A POET | 34 |
Chapter Three THE KILMARNOCK VOLUME | 105 |
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