Memorials of Robert Burns and His Contemporaries with Selections from His Poems1876 - 422 páginas |
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... Miss Aiken , confirmed by letters from Burns and other proofs . - His exile to the West Indies averted by the publication of his poems CHAPTER V. —— 100-112 Contemporaries of Burns and their descendants : -Town and county of Ayr ...
... Miss Aiken , confirmed by letters from Burns and other proofs . - His exile to the West Indies averted by the publication of his poems CHAPTER V. —— 100-112 Contemporaries of Burns and their descendants : -Town and county of Ayr ...
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... Miss Aiken , when a child , used to delight Burns by singing charmingly his own songs . She met him at Dumfries a short time before his death . He said , " the fire in me is almost extinguished ; I am the shadow " of my former self ...
... Miss Aiken , when a child , used to delight Burns by singing charmingly his own songs . She met him at Dumfries a short time before his death . He said , " the fire in me is almost extinguished ; I am the shadow " of my former self ...
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... Miss Aiken went to Liverpool , and was in that society of which Currie and Roscoe were the ornaments . At Dr. Currie's request she wrote to Scotland for the poems which Burns had sent to her father , and the letters that accompanied ...
... Miss Aiken went to Liverpool , and was in that society of which Currie and Roscoe were the ornaments . At Dr. Currie's request she wrote to Scotland for the poems which Burns had sent to her father , and the letters that accompanied ...
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... Miss Alexander ( the lass of Ballochmyle ) , or Mary Campbell , or Clarinda , or Chloris , or Jessy Lewars ( the modest lassie , his wife's cousin ) , who kindly ministered to him during his last days at Dumfries . Some of his letters ...
... Miss Alexander ( the lass of Ballochmyle ) , or Mary Campbell , or Clarinda , or Chloris , or Jessy Lewars ( the modest lassie , his wife's cousin ) , who kindly ministered to him during his last days at Dumfries . Some of his letters ...
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... Miss Admiral Gordon's Strathspey . " " OF a ' the airts * the wind can blaw , I dearly like the west , For there the bonnie lassie lives , The lassie I lo'e best ; There wild woods grow , and rivers row , And monie a hill between ; By ...
... Miss Admiral Gordon's Strathspey . " " OF a ' the airts * the wind can blaw , I dearly like the west , For there the bonnie lassie lives , The lassie I lo'e best ; There wild woods grow , and rivers row , And monie a hill between ; By ...
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Afton amang APPENDIX NOTE auld auld lang syne Ayrshire banks bard beautiful Birks of Aberfeldy blaw blest bonnie bonnie Lass bosom braes BRIGS brother Burns cauld charm Cotter's Saturday Night Cunningham Dalrymple daughter dear death Doonholm Dugald Stewart e'er Edinburgh Ellisland EPISTLE Ev'n fair Farewell Fête Champêtre flowers frae glen grace ha'e Halloween hame happy hear heart Highland hills honour James Jean King lass lassie letter lived Lord Lord Cockburn mair married Mary maun mony morning mourn Muse Nature's ne'er never o'er owre pleasure poems poet poetry poor pride rhyme river Ayr roar Robert Aiken Robert Burns Scotland Scottish Shaw sing song soul stream sweet syne Tam O'Shanter tears thee thou thought thro unco verse wander weary weel Whyles wild winds wrote
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