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The Complete Works Of Robert Burns
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Author : Robert Burns
language : en
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Release Date : 1865
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The Works Of Robert Burns
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Author : Robert Burns
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Release Date : 1893
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The Complete Works Of Robert Burns
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Author : Robert Burns
language : en
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
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Robert Burns, the chief of the peasant poets of Scotland, was born in a little mud-walled cottage on the banks of Doon, near “Alloway’s auld haunted kirk,” in the shire of Ayr, on the 25th day of January, 1759. As a natural mark of the event, a sudden storm at the same moment swept the land: the gabel-wall of the frail dwelling gave way, and the babe-bard was hurried through a tempest of wind and sleet to the shelter of a securer hovel. He was the eldest born of three sons and three daughters; his father, William, who in his native Kincardineshire wrote his name Burness, was bred a gardener, and sought for work in the West; but coming from the lands of the noble family of the Keiths, a suspicion accompanied him that he had been out—as rebellion was softly called—in the forty-five: a suspicion fatal to his hopes of rest and bread, in so loyal a district; and it was only when the clergyman of his native parish certified his loyalty that he was permitted to toil. This suspicion of Jacobitism, revived by Burns himself, when he rose into fame, seems not to have influenced either the feelings, or the tastes of Agnes Brown, a young woman on the Doon, whom he wooed and married in December, 1757, when he was thirty-six years old. To support her, he leased a small piece of ground, which he converted into a nursery and garden, and to shelter her, he raised with his own hands that humble abode where she gave birth to her eldest son. The elder Burns was a well-informed, silent, austere man, who endured no idle gaiety, nor indecorous language: while he relaxed somewhat the hard, stern creed of the Covenanting times, he enforced all the work-day, as well as sabbath-day observances, which the Calvinistic kirk requires, and scrupled at promiscuous dancing, as the staid of our own day scruple at the waltz. His wife was of a milder mood: she was blest with a singular fortitude of temper; was as devout of heart, as she was calm of mind; and loved, while busied in her household concerns, to sweeten the bitterer moments of life, by chanting the songs and ballads of her country, of which her store was great. The garden and nursery prospered so much, that he was induced to widen his views, and by the help of his kind landlord, the laird of Doonholm, and the more questionable aid of borrowed money, he entered upon a neighbouring farm, named Mount Oliphant, extending to an hundred acres. This was in 1765; but the land was hungry and sterile; the seasons proved rainy and rough; the toil was certain, the reward unsure; when to his sorrow, the laird of Doonholm—a generous Ferguson,—died: the strict terms of the lease, as well as the rent, were exacted by a harsh factor, and with his wife and children, he was obliged, after a losing struggle of six years, to relinquish the farm, and seek shelter on the grounds of Lochlea, some ten miles off, in the parish of Tarbolton. When, in after-days, men’s characters were in the hands of his eldest son, the scoundrel factor sat for that lasting portrait of insolence and wrong, in the “Twa Dogs.” In this new farm William Burns seemed to strike root, and thrive. He was strong of body and ardent of mind: every day brought increase of vigour to his three sons, who, though very young, already put their hands to the plough, the reap-hook, and the flail. But it seemed that nothing which he undertook was decreed in the end to prosper: after four seasons of prosperity a change ensued: the farm was far from cheap; the gains under any lease were then so little, that the loss of a few pounds was ruinous to a farmer: bad seed and wet seasons had their usual influence: “The gloom of hermits and the moil of galley-slaves,” as the poet, alluding to those days, said, were endured to no purpose; when, to crown all, a difference arose between the landlord and the tenant, as to the terms of the lease; and the early days of the poet, and the declining years of his father, were harassed by disputes, in which sensitive minds are sure to suffer.
Poems Songs And Letters
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Author : Robert Burns
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1868
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The Poetical Works Of Robert Burns
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Author : Robert Burns
language : en
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Release Date : 1860
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The Complete Works Of Robert Burns Self Interpreting
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Author : Robert Burns
language : en
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Release Date : 1886
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The Complete 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 By James Currie With An Enlarged And Corrected Glossary
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Author : Robert Burns
language : en
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Release Date : 1859
The Complete 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 By James Currie With An Enlarged And Corrected Glossary written by Robert Burns and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1859 with Scotland categories.
The Entire Works Of Robert Burns With An Account Of His Life And A Criticism Of His Writings To Which Are Prefixed Some Observations On The Character And Condition Of The Scottish Peasantry
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Author : Robert Burns
language : en
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Release Date : 1865
The Entire Works Of Robert Burns With An Account Of His Life And A Criticism Of His Writings To Which Are Prefixed Some Observations On The Character And Condition Of The Scottish Peasantry written by Robert Burns and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1865 with categories.
Poems Songs And Letters
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Author : Robert Burns
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Release Date : 1879
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The Complete Poetical Works Of Robert Burns
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Author : Robert Burns
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Release Date : 1897
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Engraved t.p., with vignette."Robert Burns: life, genius, achievement, by W. E. Henley": p. [xiii]-lxvi.