Robert Burns and His Myth : an Inaugural Lecture Delivered on 10th December, 1970 at the University of Ghana, LegonGhana Universities Press, 1971 - 39 Seiten |
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... early biographers and it was suggested that he had ' fallen , ' his success was only momentary . Of course he was a sadder and a wiser man and he now had family responsibilities . Many writers have found that the second volume after a ...
... early biographers and it was suggested that he had ' fallen , ' his success was only momentary . Of course he was a sadder and a wiser man and he now had family responsibilities . Many writers have found that the second volume after a ...
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... Early in 1796 he writes of the famine : ' Many days my family , and hundreds of other families , are absolutely without one grain of meal ; ' The dread note comes just before the end of 1795 : ' I became myself the victim of a most ...
... Early in 1796 he writes of the famine : ' Many days my family , and hundreds of other families , are absolutely without one grain of meal ; ' The dread note comes just before the end of 1795 : ' I became myself the victim of a most ...
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... early ingrained Piety and Virtue never failed to point me out the line of Innocence . The great misfortune of my life was , never to have AN AIM . — I had felt early some strings of Ambition , but they were the blind gropings of Homer's ...
... early ingrained Piety and Virtue never failed to point me out the line of Innocence . The great misfortune of my life was , never to have AN AIM . — I had felt early some strings of Ambition , but they were the blind gropings of Homer's ...
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