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" He said he was well aware that his death would occasion some noise, and that every scrap of his writing would be revived against him to the injury of his future reputation; that letters: and verses written with unguarded and improper freedom, and which... "
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The works of Robert Burns; with an account of his life, and a ..., Volume 1

Robert Burns - 1800 - 424 pages
...future reputation : that letters .and verses written with unguarded and improper freedom, and which he earnestly wished to have buried in oblivion, would...had written many epigrams on persons against whom he [entertained no enmity, and whose characters he should be sorry to wound ; and many indifferent...
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The Monthly Visitor, and Entertaining Pocket Companion, Volume 12

1801 - 452 pages
...future reputation : that letters and verses written with unguarded and improper freedom, and which he earnestly wished to have buried in oblivion, would...had written many epigrams on persons against whom he entertained no enmity, and whose characters he should be sorry to wound ; and many indifferent poetical...
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The Lives of the Scotish Poets: With Preliminary Dissertations on ..., Volume 2

David Irving - English poetry - 1804 - 524 pages
...injury of his future reputation ; that letters and verses written with improper freedom, and which he earnestly wished to have buried in oblivion, would...had written many epigrams on persons against whom he entertained no enmity, and whose characters he should be sorry to wound ; and many indifferent poetical...
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Reliques of Robert Burns: Consisting Chiefly of Original Letters, Poems, and ...

Robert Burns - Dialect literature, Scottish - 1808 - 496 pages
...reputation ; that letters and papers written " with unguarded and improper freedom, and " which he earnestly wished to have buried in " oblivion, would...idle vanity " or malevolence, when no dread of his resent" ment would restrain them, or prevent the cen" sures " sures of shrill-tongued malice, or the...
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Reliques of Robert Burns: Consisting Chiefly of Original Letters, Poems, and ...

Robert Burns - English literature - 1809 - 328 pages
..."future reputation; that letters and papers written " with unguarded and improper freedom, and which " he earnestly wished to have buried in oblivion, would...pouring forth all /"their venom to blast his fame."* On the contrary, I must be allowed to say, that if I am at all accurate in my estimate of the character...
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Reliques of Robert Burns: Consisting Chiefly of Original Letters, Poems, and ...

Robert Burns - English literature - 1809 - 326 pages
..."future reputation; that letters and papers written "with unguarded and improper freedom, and which " he earnestly wished to have buried in oblivion, would...pouring forth all " their venom to blast his fame."* On the contrary, I must be allowed to say, that if I am at all accurate in my estimate of the character...
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Reliques of Robert Burns: Consisting Chiefly of Original Letters, Poems, and ...

Robert Burns - English literature - 1809 - 328 pages
..."future reputation; that letters and papers written " with unguarded and improper freedom, and which " he earnestly wished to have buried in oblivion, would...would restrain them, or " prevent the censures of shrill-tengued malice, or the " insidious sarcasms of envy, from pouring forth all *' their venom to...
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The Works of Robert Burns: With an Account of His Life, and a ..., Volume 1

Robert Burns, James Currie - Scotland - 1814 - 502 pages
...shrilltongued maliee, or the insidious sareasms of envy, from pouring forth all their venom to hlast his fame. " He lamented that he had written many epigrams on persons against whom he entertained no enmity, and whose eharaeters he should he sorry to wound ; and many indifferent poetieal...
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The works of Robert Burns; with an account of his life ..., Issue 670, Volume 1

Robert Burns - 1816 - 342 pages
...future reputation : that letters and verses written with unguarded and improper freedom, and which he earnestly wished to have buried in oblivion, would...by idle vanity or malevolence, when no dread of his rejsentment would restrain them, or prevent the cen-, .gures of. ghrill-tojigued malice, or t,he ijnsidipijs...
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Reliques of Robert Burns: Consisting Chiefly of Original Letters ..., Volume 5

Robert Burns - Poets, Scottish - 1817 - 502 pages
...of his resent" ment would restrain them, or prevent the cen" sures of shrill-tongued malice, or he insidious " sarcasms of envy, from pouring forth all their " venom to blast his fame."* On the contrary, I must be allowed to say, that if I am at all accurate in my estimate of the character...
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