Reliques of Robert Burns: Consisting Chiefly of Original Letters, Poems, and Critical Observations on Scottish SongsJ. M'Creery, 1813 - 453 pages |
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... Frae aff its thorny tree , And my fause luver staw the rose , But left the thorn wi ' me . No. already published . Burns was obliged to adapt his words to a particular air , and in so doing he lost much of the sim- plicity and beauty ...
... Frae aff its thorny tree , And my fause luver staw the rose , But left the thorn wi ' me . No. already published . Burns was obliged to adapt his words to a particular air , and in so doing he lost much of the sim- plicity and beauty ...
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... Frae colleges and boarding schools , May sprout like simmer puddock - stools In glen or shaw ; He wha could brush them down to mools , Willie's awa ! * Edinburgh . V. The V. The breth'ren o " the Commerce - Chaumer * 24.
... Frae colleges and boarding schools , May sprout like simmer puddock - stools In glen or shaw ; He wha could brush them down to mools , Willie's awa ! * Edinburgh . V. The V. The breth'ren o " the Commerce - Chaumer * 24.
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... frae it's minnie and the cleckin By hoodie - craw ; Grief's gien his heart an unco kickin ' , IX . Willie's awa ! Now ev'ry sour - mou'd girnin ' blellum , And Calvin's fock , are fit to fell him ; And self - conceited critic skellum ...
... frae it's minnie and the cleckin By hoodie - craw ; Grief's gien his heart an unco kickin ' , IX . Willie's awa ! Now ev'ry sour - mou'd girnin ' blellum , And Calvin's fock , are fit to fell him ; And self - conceited critic skellum ...
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... with execrations and outcries , and the Dean disengag- ed himself from his surplice to escape from their hands . " -Laing's Hist . of Scotland , vol . iii . p . 122. E. I hae dander'd owre a ' the Kintra frae Dum- 28.
... with execrations and outcries , and the Dean disengag- ed himself from his surplice to escape from their hands . " -Laing's Hist . of Scotland , vol . iii . p . 122. E. I hae dander'd owre a ' the Kintra frae Dum- 28.
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... frae Dum- bar to Selcraig , and hae forgather'd wi ' mony a guid fallow , and monie a weelfar'd hizzie . I met wi'twa dink quines in particlar , ane o ' them a sonsie , fine , fodgel lass , baith braw and bonie ; the tither was a clean ...
... frae Dum- bar to Selcraig , and hae forgather'd wi ' mony a guid fallow , and monie a weelfar'd hizzie . I met wi'twa dink quines in particlar , ane o ' them a sonsie , fine , fodgel lass , baith braw and bonie ; the tither was a clean ...
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