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1 I will soon give you a great many more remarks on this business ; but I have just
now . an opportunity of conveying you this scrawl , free of postage , an expense
that it is ill able to pay : so , with my best compliments to honest Allan , Good be ...
1 I will soon give you a great many more remarks on this business ; but I have just
now . an opportunity of conveying you this scrawl , free of postage , an expense
that it is ill able to pay : so , with my best compliments to honest Allan , Good be ...
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My song , Here awa , there awa , as amended by Mr. Erskine , I entirely approve
of , and return you . * Give * The reader has already seen that Burns did not
finally adopt all of Mr. Erskine's alterations . E. Give me leave to criticise your
taste in ...
My song , Here awa , there awa , as amended by Mr. Erskine , I entirely approve
of , and return you . * Give * The reader has already seen that Burns did not
finally adopt all of Mr. Erskine's alterations . E. Give me leave to criticise your
taste in ...
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I own my vanity is flattered , when you give my songs a place in your elegant and
superb work ; but to be of service to the work is my first wish . As I have often told
you , I do not in a single instance wish you , out of compliment to me , to insert ...
I own my vanity is flattered , when you give my songs a place in your elegant and
superb work ; but to be of service to the work is my first wish . As I have often told
you , I do not in a single instance wish you , out of compliment to me , to insert ...
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I shall here give you two stanzas , in that style ; merely to try if it will be any
improvement . Were it possible , in singing , ' to give it half the pathos which
Fraser gives it in playing , it would make an admirably pathetic song . I do not
give these ...
I shall here give you two stanzas , in that style ; merely to try if it will be any
improvement . Were it possible , in singing , ' to give it half the pathos which
Fraser gives it in playing , it would make an admirably pathetic song . I do not
give these ...
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I'll give Cunningham a copy ; he can more powerfully proclaim its merit . I am far
from undervaluing your taste for the strathspey music ; on the contrary , I think it
highly animating and agreeable , and that some of the strathspeys , when graced
...
I'll give Cunningham a copy ; he can more powerfully proclaim its merit . I am far
from undervaluing your taste for the strathspey music ; on the contrary , I think it
highly animating and agreeable , and that some of the strathspeys , when graced
...
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| Наслов | The Works of Robert Burns: Correspondence with Mr. George Thomson, including poetry hitherto unpublished Том 4 књиге The Works of Robert Burns: With an Account of His Life, and a Criticism on His Writings. To which are Prefixed, Some Observations on the Character and Condition of the Scottish Peasantry, Mr. Thomson (George) |
| Аутор | Robert Burns |
| Издање | 5 |
| Издавач | T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1806 |
| Оригинал из | Универзитет у Мичигену |
| Дигитализовано | 19 мај 2007 |
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