        item: #1 of 8
          id: 18388
      author: Neilson, William Allan
       title: Robert Burns: How To Know Him
        date: None
       words: 65375
      flesch: 83
     summary: Aft, clad in massy siller weed, Wi' gentles thou erects thy head; Yet humbly kind, in time o' need, The poor man's wine, His wee drap parritch, or his bread, Thou kitchens fine. Tam Glen 133 Tam o' Shanter 257 Tam Samson's Elegy 294 There Was a Lad 125 There'll Never Be Peace till Jamie Comes Hame 166 To a Haggis 306 To a Louse 274 To a Mountain Daisy 276 To a Mouse 272 To Daunton Me 142 To Mary in Heaven 114 To the Rev. John McMath 181 Twa Dogs, The 219 Wandering Willie 138 Weary Pund o' Tow, The 147 Wha Is that at My Bower Door?
    keywords: amang; ane; auld; awa; aye; bonnie; braw; burns; care; come; country; day; dead; dear; death; drink; edinburgh; english; fair; father; frae; friend; gie; guid; hae; hame; hand; head; heart; highland; hour; house; jean; john; kind; laddie; lang; lassie; let; life; little; lord; love; man; mary; maun; meet; men; mony; nae; nannie; nature; ne'er; new; night; o'er; o't; owre; place; poems; poet; poetry; rest; robert; round; sae; scotch; scotland; scots; scottish; set; sic; sir; song; sweet; syne; tak; tam; tam o; tell; thee; thou; thought; thro; thy; time; tune; twa; unco; wad; way; weel; wha; wife; willie; winter; words; work; young
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        item: #2 of 8
          id: 21330
      author: Shairp, John Campbell
       title: Robert Burns
        date: None
       words: 64377
      flesch: 70
     summary: Dr. Chambers has well shown that he who at one hour was the _douce_ sober Mr. Burns, in (p. 174) the next was changed to the maddest of Bacchanals: now he was glowing with the most generous sentiments, now sinking to the very opposite extreme. It was either on this occasion, or on his bringing Mrs. Burns to the Isle, that he held a house-heating mentioned by Allan Cunningham, to which all the neighbourhood gathered, and drank, Luck to the roof-tree of the house of Burns!
    keywords: ayrshire; brother; burns; character; country; day; days; death; doubt; dumfries; edinburgh; ellisland; family; farm; father; feeling; friend; genius; good; great; heart; home; house; kind; letters; life; lockhart; lord; love; man; mary; men; mind; mrs; nature; new; night; place; poems; poet; poetry; power; robert; scotland; scottish; second; set; society; song; spirit; thomson; thought; time; way; wife; words; work; world; year
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        item: #3 of 8
          id: 30489
      author: Combe, George
       title: Phrenological Development of Robert Burns From a Cast of His Skull Moulded at Dumfries, the 31st Day of March 1834
        date: None
       words: 1815
      flesch: 61
     summary: The combination of large organs of the Animal Propensities, with large Cautiousness, and only full Hope, together with the unfavourable circumstances in which he was placed, accounts for the melancholy and internal unhappiness with which Burns was so frequently afflicted. In the combination of very large Philoprogenitiveness and Adhesiveness, with very large Benevolence and large Ideality, we find the elements of that exquisite tenderness and refinement, which Burns so frequently manifested, even when at the worst stage of his career.
    keywords: burns; combination; organs; skull
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        item: #4 of 8
          id: 30721
      author: Setoun, Gabriel
       title: Robert Burns
        date: None
       words: 43952
      flesch: 71
     summary: Another reason for staying through the winter in Edinburgh Burns may have had in the hope that through the influence of his aristocratic friends some office of profit, and not unworthy his genius, might have been found for him. Of the many biographies of Robert Burns that have been written, most of them laboriously and carefully, perhaps not one gives so luminous and vivid a portrait, so lifelike and vigorous an impression of the personality of the poet and the man, as the picture the author has given of himself in his own writings.
    keywords: burns; character; children; country; day; days; doubt; dumfries; edinburgh; edition; fact; family; farm; father; friend; genius; good; heart; holy; home; jean; know; letter; life; love; man; men; mind; mrs; nature; period; poems; poet; poetry; robert burns; scotland; song; things; time; verse; way; wife; work; world; writing; years
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        item: #5 of 8
          id: 35293
      author: None
       title: A Day with the Poet Burns
        date: None
       words: 4985
      flesch: 87
     summary: My arms about my dearie, O; An' war'ly cares, and war'ly men, May a' gae tapsalteerie, O! Auld Nature swears, the lovely dears Her noblest work she classes, O: Her prentice han' she try'd on man, An' then she made the lasses, O. Green grow, etc.
    keywords: burns; day; dear; john; love; man; tam; thee; thou; thy
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        item: #6 of 8
          id: 35299
      author: Hughes, James L. (James Laughlin)
       title: The Real Robert Burns
        date: None
       words: 41449
      flesch: 71
     summary: Since the time of Burns men and women, both in the churches and out of them, have learned to set more store on the importance of living truly on the earth, and have ceased to a large extent to think only of a life to come after death. Only the good in the lives of great men should be recorded in biographies.
    keywords: brotherhood; burns; character; christ; day; dear; death; edinburgh; epistle; fair; farm; father; fellow; friend; god; good; heart; independent; jean; john; letter; life; love; man; mary; men; mind; mrs; nature; people; philosophy; poems; power; read; religion; robert; robert burns; songs; soul; things; thou; time; world; years
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        item: #7 of 8
          id: 36074
      author: Carlyle, Thomas
       title: Life of Robert Burns
        date: None
       words: 31541
      flesch: 62
     summary: Let a man but speak forth with genuine earnestness the thought, the emotion, the actual condition, of his own heart; and other men, so strangely are we all knit together by the tie of sympathy, must and will give heed to him. Let our poets look to this; is their feeling really finer, truer, and their vision deeper than that of other men, they have nothing to fear, even from the humblest object; is it not so?--they have nothing to hope, but an ephemeral favor, even from the highest.
    keywords: age; british; burns; carlyle; character; country; edinburgh; english; father; feeling; genius; good; heart; life; light; literature; love; man; means; men; mind; nature; nay; period; place; poet; poetry; power; scotland; scottish; soul; spirit; things; time; work; world; year
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        item: #8 of 8
          id: 9863
      author: Burns, Robert
       title: The Letters of Robert Burns
        date: None
       words: 121783
      flesch: 76
     summary: [Footnote d: See, for example, the _Cheese_ Letter to Peter Hill, or the _Snail's-horns_ Letter to Mrs. Dunlop.] I have myself done so to a very daring pitch; but, when I reflected that I was opposing the most ardent wishes and the most darling hopes of good men, and flying in the face of all human belief, in all ages, I was shocked at my own conduct.
    keywords: account; acquaintance; air; book; brother; burns; business; character; clarinda; come; correspondence; country; day; days; dear; dumfries; dunlop; edinburgh; ellisland; excise; existence; family; father; fellow; footnote; fortune; friend; friendship; god; good; great; half; hand; happiness; head; heart; heaven; honour; hope; hour; house; human; idea; james; john; kind; leave; letter; life; little; look; love; madam; man; mauchline; men; mind; miss; moment; morning; mrs; nature; new; night; opinion; place; pleasure; poet; poor; power; present; r. b.; reason; rest; return; robert; scottish; set; sir; song; soul; subject; things; thou; thought; thy; time; tis; verses; want; way; wife; wish; woman; world; worth; years; young
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