The Complete Works. Robert Burns
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Название: The Complete Works
Автор: Robert Burns
Издательство: Public Domain
Жанр: Зарубежная классика
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Take three dishes: put clean water in one, foul water in another, and leave the third empty; blindfold a person and lead him to the hearth where the dishes are ranged; he (or she) dips the left hand: if by chance in the clean water, the future husband or wife will come to the bar of matrimony a maid; if in the foul, a widow; if in the empty dish, it foretells, with equal certainty, no marriage at all. It is repeated three times, and every time the arrangement of the dishes is altered.
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Sowens, with butter instead of milk to them, is always the Halloween supper.
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Dr. Taylor, of Norwich.
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Gavin Hamilton, Esq.
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Sir Adam Ferguson.
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The Duke of Montrose.
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A worthy old hostess of the author’s in Mauchline, where he sometimes studies politics over a glass of guid auld Scotch drink.
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When this worthy old sportsman went out last muirfowl season, he supposed it was to be, in Ossian’s phrase, “the last of his fields.”
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A preacher, a great favourite with the million. Vide the Ordination, stanza II
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Another preacher, an equal favourite with the few, who was at that time ailing. For him see also the Ordination, stanza IX.
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Pope.
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Pope.
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A certain humorous dream of his was then making a noise in the country-side.
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A song he had promised the author.
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The airles—earnest money.
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Diogenes.
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Alluding to the newspaper account of a certain royal sailor’s amour
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Cuchullin’s dog in Ossian’s Fingal.
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A noted tavern at the auld Brig end.
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The two steeples.
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The gos-hawk or falcon.
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A noted ford, just above the Auld Brig.
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The banks of Garpal Water is one of the few places in the West of Scotland, where those fancy-scaring beings, known by the name of Ghaists, still continue pertinaciously to inhabit.
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The source of the river Ayr.
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A small landing-place above the large key.
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A well known performer of Scottish music on the violin.
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The Man of Feeling, by Mackenzie.
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Edinburgh.
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The Chamber of Commerce in Edinburgh, of which Creech was Secretary.
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Many literary gentlemen were accustomed to meet at Mr. Creech’s house at breakfast.
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The King’s Park, at Holyrood-house.
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St. Anthony’s Well.
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St. Anthony’s Chapel.
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His mare.
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This Poem was written a short time after the publication of M’Gill’s Essay.
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Dr. M’Gill.
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John Ballantyne.
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Robert Aiken.
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