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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... SCENES . It is not commonly at these green years that the young Noblesse and Gentry have a just sense of the immense distance between them and their ragged Play- fellows . It takes a few dashes into the world to give the young Great man ...
... SCENES . It is not commonly at these green years that the young Noblesse and Gentry have a just sense of the immense distance between them and their ragged Play- fellows . It takes a few dashes into the world to give the young Great man ...
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... scenes of swaggering riot and roaring dissipation were as yet new to me ; and I was no enemy to social life . Here , though I learned to look unconcernedly on a large tavern - bill , and mix without fear in a drunken squabble , yet I ...
... scenes of swaggering riot and roaring dissipation were as yet new to me ; and I was no enemy to social life . Here , though I learned to look unconcernedly on a large tavern - bill , and mix without fear in a drunken squabble , yet I ...
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... scenes make me forget Neglect . — ― I threw off six hundred copies , of which I had got subscriptions for about three hundred and fifty . My vanity was highly gratified by the reception I met with from the Publick ; besides pocketing ...
... scenes make me forget Neglect . — ― I threw off six hundred copies , of which I had got subscriptions for about three hundred and fifty . My vanity was highly gratified by the reception I met with from the Publick ; besides pocketing ...
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