Adair, Dr.,76.Addington, Mr.,69-70,144,171.Address to the Deil,23.Address to the Unco Guid,58,199.Aiken, Robert,29.Ainslie, Mr.,60,72,91.Aird, Thomas,194.Alison, Rev. A.,128-129.Alloway Kirk,121;Kirkyard,16.Alloway Mill, school at,5.A Man's a Man for a' that,167.Armour, Jean,26-27,62-63,83-84,85-88,141,160.Armour, Mr.,26,33,83-84,96.Athole, Duchess of,65.Athole, Duke of,67.Auld Lang Syne,206.Auld Lights, The,18.Ayr, river,27.
Banks o' Doon,123-124,161,205.Bard's Epitaph, the,190.Begbie, Ellison,12.Begg, Mrs. (Burns's sister),25,62.Belches of Invermay, The,75.Birks of Invermay, The,75.Blacklock, Dr.,38,48-49,104.Blair Castle,65,67.Blair, Dr. H.,38,44,48,50-51,56-57.Bonnie Peggie Alison,12.Brigs of Ayr,58.Brow,179,184.Brown, Agnes (Burns's mother),3.Bruar Water, Humble Petition of,66-67.Bruce, Mrs., of Clackmannan,77-78.Bruce, Robert,78,157.Burnes, James (Burns's cousin),183.Burness (or Burnes), William (Burns's father),2-3,6-7,14-15.Burns, Gilbert,5,9-12,26,36,85,99-100.Burns, Mrs.SeeArmour, Jean.Burns, Robert, biographies of,1;birth,2;parentage,2-3,6-7,14-15;successive homes:Mount Oliphant,4-9,Lochlea,9-15,Mossgiel,15,20,22,24;school-days,5-7;household reading,6-7;early love affairs,8-10,12,26-30;youthful dissipation,10,13-15;Burns as a farmer,15-16,20-21,95,98-99,132-133;religious controversy,17-20;poetic aspirations,21;two prolific years,22-26;Jean Armour,26,27;resolves to emigrate,27,30,32,34;Kilmarnock edition of the poems published,30-34;literary earnings,32,58-59,85,152;immediate popularity,33-34,37,39;his manners,36;first winter in Edinburgh,42-59;literary and legal lights,44-46;the lion of the season,48-57;his appearance,49-50,118,170;tavern life,57-58;second edition of the poems,58-59;Border and Highland tours,60,63-78;Burns's descriptions of scenery,71-72;disappointing poetic fruits,73;knighted by Mrs. Bruce,78;second winter in Edinburgh,79-93;reasons for his stay,79;hypochondria and despondency,81;Mrs. M'Lehose,82-84;appointment in the excise,84;marriage,85-88;change in the attitude of Edinburgh society,89-90;some reasons for it,90-92;life at Ellisland,94-134;Burns's farm,95;discomfort and despondency,96-97;happiest period of his life,99,102;house at Ellisland,101-102;as an exciseman,105-106;restlessness and discontent,113,115-116;Tam o' Shanter,120-122;dramatic aspirations,126;gives up his farm,133;migration to Dumfries,135;downward course,138,162,164,172;social discredit,139,173;politics,139,142-149,161,168-169,171;friendship with the Liddels,140,162,179-180;Mrs. M'Lehose reappears,140-141;relations with Johnson and Thomson,150-154,159;excursion into Galloway,156-157;an unhappy time,161-164;declining health,165,174;joins the volunteers,169-170;last illness,176-179;poverty and anxiety,180-184;death,185;Burns's grave,186-187;character,188,189.As a poet:satires,19-20,31-32,epistles,23,pure landscape not his forte,71,72,at his best in the Scottish dialect,73,151,tenderness towards animals,106-108,179,Bacchanalian songs,110-112,Burns in the hour of inspiration,121-122,elegies,123,circumstance and mental habits forbade long poems,126,love songs,140-141,160-161,in the act of composition,159-160,piercing insight and large sympathy,192,truthfulness of nature,193,caustic wit,193,the interpreter of Scotland's peasantry,196,the restorer of her nationality,196-197,catholicity,197-198,intense love of nature,200,Burns as a song-writer,202-206.
Campbell, Mary.SeeHighland Mary.Carlyle, Thomas,17,54,129,131-132,156-157,169,202.Cathcart, Miss,66.Chalmers, Margaret,80-81,84,87,183.Chambers, Dr.,11,27,39et passim.Clarinda.SeeM'Lehose, Mrs.Clark, William,117-118.Commonplace Book, Burns's,55-56,115.Cotter's Saturday Night, The,20,23,25,37,70,195.Cowper,47,48.Craig, Mrs.,184.Creech, Mr.,56-59,79,85,153.Crochallan Club, The,58,61,63,91.Cruikshank, Mr.,78.Cunningham, Alexander,163.Cunningham, Allan,75,89,96,97,125,133et passim.Currie, Dr.,174.
Daer, Lord,35,156.Dalrymple, Mr.,46.Dalswinton,94.Davidson, John (Souter Johnnie),122.Death and Dr. Hornbook,23,58,70.Death of Poor Mailie, The,9.Deil's awa' wi' the Exciseman, The,145.Despondency, Ode to,31.Don, Lady Harriet,127.Doon, Brig of,2,3,4.Dumfries,Burns's life at,135-154;social condition of,136.Dundas, Mr. Henry,67,92,143,171.Dunlop, Mrs.,34,36-37,96;letters to,54,86,89,96,100,109,113,114,149,165,169,174,175,183.
Ecclefechan,168-169.Edinburgh,Burns's first winter in,42-59;tavern life in,57-58;second winter in,79-93.Eglinton, Lord,58.Ellisland,56,61,80,85,89,94-134.Epistles, Burns's,23-24.Erskine, H.,45-46.Erskine of Mar, Mr.,148.Essay on Taste, Alison's,128-129.
Farmer's Address to his Mare,23,108,195.Ferguson, Dr. Adam,48,53.Fergusson, the poet,44,191.French Revolution,Burns's sympathy with,144-146,157.
Galloway, Burns's tour in,155-156."Geddes, Jenny,"128.Glencairn, Lady,104.Glencairn, Lord,46,56,123.Globe Tavern, the,116,128,137-138,176.Gordon Castle,68-69.Gordon, Duchess of,46,69.Gordon, Duke of,68.Gow, Neil,73-74.Graham, Douglas (Tom o' Shanter),122.Graham, Mrs.,66.Graham of Balnagown,66.Graham of Fintray, Mr.,67,84,103,120,147,172.Greenfield, Mr.,56-57.Grose, Captain,108-109,120-121.
Halloween,23,194,200.Hamilton, Charlotte,80-81,183.Hamilton, Gavin,19,30,76,80.Hazlitt,12.Heron of Heron,169.Heron Robert,33,57,58.Hemans, Mrs.,157.Highland Mary,27-31,34,112-113.Highland Mary,Lament for,27,31-32,113.Holy Fair, The,19-20,25,31.Holy Willie's Prayer,19,31.Hume, David,44.
Irvine,13-14,26,41.
Jacobitism, Burns's,142-143.Jeffrey,52,177.John Anderson my Jo,114.Johnson, Dr.,45.Johnson's Museum,73,75,114,150-151.Johnson, the engraver,73,150,179.Jolly Beggars, The,23,25,126,201.Justice of Peace(Langhorne's),53.
Kilmarnock edition of the poems,30-33,191.Kirkoswald,10,13,122.Kirk's Alarm, The,109.
Land o' Cakes,108-109.Lass of Cessnock Water, The,12.Laurie, Dr.,38,48.Lewars, Jessie,178,185.Lewars, Mr.,105.Lochlea,9-15.Lockhart, Mr.,20,27,48,62,67,87,127,145.Lounger, The,45,47.
M'Culloch, David,164.Mackenzie, H.,45,48.M'Lehose, Mrs.,82-85,140-141.Macpherson's Farewell,71.Mary in Heaven,73,112,114,120,161.Mary Morrison,11-12.Masterton, Allan,110.Mauchline,15,62,99.Maxwell, Provost,115.Mendelssohn,179.Miller of Dalswinton, Mr.,85,95,98,133.Milton,55,63.Mitchell, Collector,175,182.Monboddo, Lord,45,48.Moore, Dr.,72,125.Mossgiel,15,20,22,24,38,61.Mountain Daisy, The,23,36.Mount Oliphant,4-9.Mouse, To a,23,108.Murdoch, Burns's tutor,5-7.My Nannie, O,9,11.
"Nell, Handsome,"7-9.New Lights,18-19,34,109."Nicht wi' Burns," a,130-131.Nicol, Mr.,61,63,66,68-70,72,97.North, Christopher,42.
Of a' the airts,161.Oh, wert thou in the cauld blast,178.Ordination, The,19,25,58.
Paine, Tom,146.Pindar, Peter,152.Poems,Kilmarnock edition,30-33,191;second edition,58-59.Politics, Burns's part in,139,142-149,161,169,171.Prentice, Mr.,42.Punch-bowl, Burns's,96,131-132.
Ramsay, Allan,21,23,44,75,191.Ramsay of Ochtertyre,119,125.Rankine, Epistle to John,16.Richmond, John,43.Riddel, Mrs. W.,141,179-180.Riddel of Friars' Carse,98,162.Riddel, Walter,139,162.Robertson, Dr.,44-48."Rosamond," the brig,145.Ruin, Ode to,31.
Samson, John,43.Scots wha hae,155-157,206.Scott-Douglas, Mr.,27-28,124.Scott, Sir W.,52,54,75-76,197.Selkirk, Lord,155.Sidmouth, Lord.SeeAddington, Mr.Silver Tassie, the,114.Skinner, Bishop,74.Smith, Adam,45.Smith, Betty,99,101.Songs, Burns's,202-205.Stewart, Dugald,34-36,43-44,46,51,56-57.Syme, Mr.,154-155,170.
Tam o' Shanter,120-122,125,191,201-202.Tarbolton,10.Thomson, Geo.,126,151-153,156,161,165,171,177,182-183.Tours, Border and Highland,60-78.Twa Dogs, The,23,31,70,193,194.Twa Herds, The,19.Tytler, Mr. Fraser,48.
Vision, The,23.
Walker, Prof.,49,51,66,174.Wallace, William,21,36,197.Wee Vennel, the,135,137.Whistle, The,111-112.Willie brewed a peck o' maut,110-112.Wilson, John (painter),31.Winter Night, The,108.Wolcot, Dr.SeePindar, Peter.Woodley Park,140,162.Wordsworth,71,157-159,190.
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