A Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Scotsmen, 9. köideBlackie, 1855 |
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... soon learned to distinguish him , was the “ muses ' meed " with which he rested satisfied for the present . It was easy , indeed , for him to compose verses : they sprang up in his mind as rapidly as prose does with ordinary mortals ...
... soon learned to distinguish him , was the “ muses ' meed " with which he rested satisfied for the present . It was easy , indeed , for him to compose verses : they sprang up in his mind as rapidly as prose does with ordinary mortals ...
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... Soon after this commencement , Hogg , impatient of the narrow circumstances within which he was hampered , and conscious that he was fitted for something better , resolved to amend his fortunes , by migrating either to the Highlands or ...
... Soon after this commencement , Hogg , impatient of the narrow circumstances within which he was hampered , and conscious that he was fitted for something better , resolved to amend his fortunes , by migrating either to the Highlands or ...
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... soon found him- self penniless and in debt . After struggling , or rather floundering on , impeded at every step by the new character he had acquired , of a man that could win but not keep - a character most unfavourable in the eyes of ...
... soon found him- self penniless and in debt . After struggling , or rather floundering on , impeded at every step by the new character he had acquired , of a man that could win but not keep - a character most unfavourable in the eyes of ...
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... soon found that he had as little chance of becoming an exciseman as a soldier . It was perhaps as well for him that this further assimilation to Burns was not accomplished . Thus frustrated in all his efforts , Hogg now resolved to ...
... soon found that he had as little chance of becoming an exciseman as a soldier . It was perhaps as well for him that this further assimilation to Burns was not accomplished . Thus frustrated in all his efforts , Hogg now resolved to ...
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... soon after followed by " Mador of the Moor , " a poem in the Spenserian stanza , and which he reckoned his master- piece of versification . But here again the world out - voted him , for " Mador of the Moor " was reckoned inferior even ...
... soon after followed by " Mador of the Moor , " a poem in the Spenserian stanza , and which he reckoned his master- piece of versification . But here again the world out - voted him , for " Mador of the Moor " was reckoned inferior even ...
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