Burns, Robert

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1. An eighteenth-century Scottish poet known for his poems in Scottish dialect, such as “To a Mouse,” “A Red, Red Rose,” and “Auld Lang Syne.”

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Many lines from Burns's poetry have become proverbial: “The best-laid schemes of mice and men / Gang aft a-gley” (often go astray), “A man's a man for a' [all] that.”

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Burns, Robert, quoted, 3, 13, 33, 307, 313; Dean Stanley on, 271; rules of conduct, 271, 272.

From Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie by Van Dyke, John Charles

Burns, Robert, his poetry, 291; his career, 292-297; his death, 298, 301; compared with Samuel Rogers, 302, 303.

From English Lands Letters and Kings Queen Anne and the Georges by Mitchell, Donald G.

Burns, Robert: festival, 224, 225; rank, 281; image referred to, 386; religious position, 409.

From Ralph Waldo Emerson by Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Burns, Robert, his habit of reading at meals, i.

From Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 6 With His Letters and Journals by Moore, Thomas