Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 1836-1907 · Boston, CT : Hall and Locke · leaf 102
ketch, the Tinker of Elstow. ROBERT BURNS Robert Burns, the most famous poet of Scotland,the son of a poor but worthy farmer, was born atAlloway near Ayr, Jan. 25, 1759. He had a rathercareful education, and began early to write verse. Hebegan farming for himself in 1784, but had only illfortune.… … B URNS first came upon theworld as a prodigy; andwas, in that character, en-tertained by it, in the usualfashion, with loud, vague,tumultuous wonder, speedily sub-siding into censure and neglect;till his early and most mournfuldeath again awakened an enthusi-asm for him. . . . Let it not be…
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