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_Grizzel Grimme, Ballad of_, 246

Grose, Francis, 121, 176-177, 265, 268

Guthrie, William, 48

_Guy Mannering_, 104

Halleaths, 182

_Hallowe’en_, 248

Hamilton, Charlotte, 256

Hamilton, Gavin, 72, 76, 78, 87-88, 90, 92-93, 142, 202

Hamilton, John, of Sundrum, 85-86

Hamilton, William, of Gilbertfield, 24, 45

_Hamlet_, 40

Hampstead Heath, 244

_Handsome Nell_, 236, 242

Hannibal, 45, 234

Hanover, House of, 4, 26, 287-289, 294

_Hardyknute_, 27, 43

Harry, Blind, 25, 45

Hastings, Warren, 5, 302

Hay, Charles (Lord Newton), 106-107, 108, 253

Hay, Lewis, 161

Health, Burns’s, 54, 83-84, 184-187, 217, 231-233

_Helenore_ (Alexander Ross), 24

Henley, William Ernest, 138, 144, 145, 168

Henri, Susan Dunlop, 152, 286

_Henry VIII_, 40

Henryson, Robert, 23

Herald’s Office, Edinburgh, 35

Herd, David, 27, 43, 110, 252

‘Here is the glen and here the bower,’ 272

Heron, Lady Elizabeth, 271-272

Heron, Patrick, of Heron, 16, 131, 230, 271

_Hey, Johnie Cope_, 26

_Hey tutti taitie_, 272, 300

Highland clans, suppression of, 4

_Highland Lassie_, 145

Highland Mary. _See_ Campbell, Mary

Highland tours, Burns’s, 116-118, 256

Hildebroad, John, 283

Hill, Peter, 106, 200, 281

_History of Sir William Wallace, The_, 234

_History of the Bible_ (Stackhouse), 48

Hogg, James, 102, 135

Holinshed, Raphael, 261

Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 19, 280

_Holy Fair, The_, 76, 248

_Holy Willie’s Prayer_, 46, 76, 111, 249, 250, 307

Home, John, 21, 28, 40, 42, 75

Homer, 49, 75

Hopetoun, James Hope, Earl of, 228

Horace, 236

Housman, A. E., 244-245

‘How are Thy servants blest’ (Addison), 40

Hume, David, 29, 31, 197, 278, 279, 300, 304

Humphry, James, 83

Hutcheson, Francis, 20, 22, 281, 285

Hyslop, William, 120

Immortality, Burns’s views on, 284-286

‘I murder hate,’ 82, 155, 237

India, 190

Inquisition, Spanish, 17

Irvine, 67, 71, 72, 79-84, 87, 88

Irving, Washington, 266

‘I’ve seen the smiling of Fortune beguiling,’ 43

Jacobitism, Burns’s, 209, 229, 287-290, 304

Jamaica, 93, 98, 147, 151, 162, 171, 172, 191-193, 206, 239

James I, of Scotland, 23

James VI, of Scotland, I of England, 3, 23, 287

Jefferson, Thomas, 272

Jeffrey, Francis, 29

Jeffreys, George, 293

_Jocky and Maggie’s Courtship_, 46

_John Anderson_, 26, 264

_John Barleycorn_, 246

_John o’ Badenyon_, 43, 256

Johnson, James, 120, 132, 214, 220, 254-264, 269, 273

Johnson, Samuel, 11, 24, 29, 31, 43, 102, 300

Johnston, William, 297

_Jolly Beggars, The_, 59, 111, 144, 249, 307

Journalism, Burns and, 205-206

_Junius_, 61

Kames, Henry Home, Lord, 102, 108, 129

Keats, John, 11, 35, 49, 75, 79, 239, 250

Kemp, John, 162, 164, 165

Kilmarnock, 76, 167, 193-194, 198, 306

Kilpatrick, Nellie, 63, 68, 82, 137, 234-235

King’s Arms, Dumfries, 120

Kinmonth, 36

Kipling, Rudyard, 247, 305

Kirk, Scottish, 16-23

Kirkcudbright, 125, 131, 230

Kirkoswald, 37, 55-60, 69, 72

Kirkpatrick, Joseph, 282, 288

Kiwanis Club, 104

Knox, John, 16, 19, 22

Lake District, 47

Lamb, Charles, 278

_Lament for James, Earl of Glencairn_, 240

Landor, Walter Savage, 250

Lapraik, John, 249

Lapraik, Tod, 305

Laurie, Annie, 250

Laurie, Sir Robert, 121-122

Lawrie, George, 99, 195

Lawrie, Mrs. George, 153

_Leader Haughs and Yarrow_, 255

Leeward Islands, 176

Lewars, Jessie, 130, 148, 149, 277

Lewars, John, 130, 295

_Lewis Gordon_, 272

Letters, Burns’s, 60-61

_Letters Moral and Entertaining_ (E. Rowe), 60

Linlithgow, 90

Lippo Lippi, Fra, 250

Lisbon, 9

Little, Jenny, 158-159

Livingstone, David, 303

Lochaber, 256

Lochiel, Donald Cameron of, 301

Lochlie, 62-63, 70, 72-73, 74, 84-88, 90, 138, 208, 214

Lochmaben, 182

_Lochmaben Harper, The_, 258

Locke, John, 22

Lockerbie, 182

Lockhart, John Gibson, 118

_Logan Braes_, 299

Lomond, Loch, 47

London, 204, 287, 293, 295

Longtown, 204

Lorimer, Jean, 148, 149, 219

Lorimer, William, 219

Loudoun, 99, 153, 195

Louis XVI, 160, 292, 294, 298

_Lounger, The_, 31, 302

Lowell, James Russell, 247

Loyal Natives Club, Dumfries, 126-127

M’Auley, John, 151

_Macbeth_, 261, 266

Mackenzie, Henry, 12, 31, 58, 60, 66, 75, 84, 93, 118, 125, 197, 199,
201, 251, 252, 301, 305

Mackenzie, John, 90-92, 99

Mackenzie, S. (Dumfries), 124

Mackintosh, James, 292

McKnight, --, 274

‘Maclaren, Ian.’ _See_ Watson, John

M’Lehose, Agnes, 70, 114, 125, 144, 148, 152, 153, 156, 160-172, 174,
176, 179, 209, 210, 212, 221, 251, 258, 281, 283, 284, 307

M’Lehose, James, 162, 166, 171, 172

M’Lure, David, 62, 70, 72, 85-88

M’Murdo, John, 111, 133

Macpherson, James, 27, 43

_M’Pherson’s Farewell_, 264, 307

Mallet, David, 30

_Man of Feeling, The_, 31, 35, 58, 60, 84, 144, 189, 279, 299, 306

_Man Was Made to Mourn_, 236

Manners, Burns’s, 102-104, 144, 153-157

_Manual of Religious Belief_ (William Burnes), 59, 279

Marie Antoinette, 160, 298

Marischal, George Keith, 10th Earl of, 36

Marriage, Burns’s, 168-176, 189

_Marrow of Modern Divinity, The_, 281

Marxism, 18

_Mary Morison_, 251

Mary, Queen of Scots, 300-301

Masons. _See_ Freemasonry

Massachusetts, 16, 20

Masson, Arthur, 40, 41-42, 58, 60

Mathieson, W. L., quoted, 18-19

Mauchline, 67, 75, 83, 89, 90, 93, 124, 138, 150, 165, 166, 170, 173,
174, 195, 212

_Mauchline Wedding, The_, 240

Maule, Ramsay, of Panmure, 127

Maxwell, James, 133, 294, 298

Maxwell, Robert, 111

Melrose, 266

_Merry Muses of Caledonia, The_, 111-112, 253-254

_Mill, Mill O, The_, 242

Mill Street, Dumfries, 133, 222

Millan, --, 30

Miller, Eliza, 13, 145

Miller, Patrick, 101, 114, 120, 133, 202, 207-212, 220

Miller, Mrs. Patrick, 220

Miller, Patrick, Jr., 206

Milne, A. A., 307

Milton, John, 42, 164, 244, 282

_Minstrel, The_ (Beattie), 25, 29

_Mirror, The_, 31, 302

Mississippi Bubble, 7

Mitchell, John, 111, 217, 218

Moderates. _See_ New Lights

Moffat, 228

Monboddo, James Burnet, Lord, 108

Monkland Friendly Society, 106, 281

_Monody on a Lady Famed for her Caprice_, 181-182

Montgomerie, Margaret, 103

Montrose, 117

Montrose, James Graham, Marquis of, 303

Moodie, Alexander, 76

Moore, John, 78, 104, 199, 201, 252

Morison, Mary, 68

Mossgiel, 13, 73-74, 87-88, 95, 138, 143, 167, 190, 202, 204, 208,
211, 214

Mound, Edinburgh, 8

Mount Oliphant, 34, 41, 48, 50, 54-56, 59, 61-62, 70, 72, 208, 220,
279

Muir, Robert, 150, 198, 284

Muir, Thomas, 293, 294

Muir, Mrs. William, 165

Mundell, James, 120

Munro, Neil, 305

Murdoch, John, 34-35, 39-43, 44, 47, 48, 49, 51-55, 57, 204

Murray, Sir James, 272

Murray, John, of Broughton, 4, 30

Murry, John Middleton, 250

Music, Scottish, 26-28, 40, 120-121

Music, influence on Burns, 236-237, 240-244, 246, 248

‘My father was a farmer,’ 236

‘My Love is like a red red rose,’ 26, 107, 261

Nairne, Margaret Mercer Elphinstone, Baroness, 261, 305

_Nancy_, West-Indiaman, 192

Napoleon, 7, 28, 225, 226

Nationalism, Scottish, 303

New Brig, Ayr, 31

Newcastle, 204

New England, 16-17, 247, 280

New Lights, 21-23, 66-67, 75-78, 95, 280-287, 299

Newton, Charles Hay, Lord. _See_ Hay

Nicol, William, 98, 112, 115-119, 207

_Night Thoughts_ (Young), 169

Nimmo, Erskine, 162, 209

Nith, River, 220, 226, 245

Niven, William, 56, 61, 63

Norval, Charles, 85

_Observations on the Scottish Dialect_ (Sinclair), 29-30

Ochiltree, 244

Ochiltree, Edie, 188, 305

Ochtertyre, 256, 287

‘Of a’ the airts,’ 149, 174

Oldbuck, Jonathan, 265

Old Lights, 21-23, 66-67, 75-78, 279-287

_On God’s Sovereignty_, 281

_On the Death of Lord President Dundas_, 107

‘O poortith cauld,’ 271

_Ordination, The_, 76

Orr, Thomas, 61

_Ossian_ (Macpherson), 27, 43

Oswald, James, 27

Oswald, Mary Ramsay, of Auchencruive, 144

Oswald, Richard, of Auchencruive, 291

‘O wat ye wha that lo’es me,’ 110

‘O wert thou in the cauld blast,’ 251, 277

Paine, Thomas, 226, 290

Paisley, 167, 198, 306

Palmer, Thomas Fyshe, 293, 294

_Pamela_, 58

_Pantheon, The_ (Tooke), 49

Park, Anne, 146, 148, 174

Park, Mungo, 303

Parliament, 3-4, 5-6, 289, 290-294, 295, 302

Parnell, Charles Stuart, 4

Paton, Elizabeth, 74, 76, 138-139, 140, 141, 143, 147, 148, 150, 193,
194, 203

Patriotism, Burns’s, 234, 278, 287-306

Patronage, Kirk, 22

Pattison, Alexander, 198

Peacock, --, 80, 83

_Peggy Bawn_, 236

Percy, Thomas, 25, 43

Perry, James, 206

_Philosophy of Natural History_ (Smellie), 105

‘Pindar, Peter.’ _See_ Wolcot, John

Pinkerton, John, 43

Pitt, William, 226, 290

_Plane-stanes and the Causey, The_, 248

Pleyel, Ignaz Joseph, 268, 270

_Poems_, Burns’s, Kilmarnock ed., 29, 82, 94, 98, 118, 139, 142, 154,
191, 193-196, 202, 239, 244, 247-249

_Poems_, Burns’s, 1st Edinburgh ed., 95, 98, 105, 106, 118, 127,
195-201, 203, 254

_Poems_, Burns’s, 2nd Edinburgh ed., 204-205

_Poems_, Burns’s, Gilbert Burns’s ed., 203

_Poet’s Progress, The_, 234

_Poet’s Welcome to his Bastart Wean, A_, 111, 150

Politics, Burns’s, 102, 131, 225-226, 230-231, 278, 287-299

Poosie Nansie, 57

Pope, Alexander, 42, 49, 60, 181, 216

Port Antonio, 192

Potterrow, Edinburgh, 165

_Prayer in the Prospect of Death_, 84

Preaching, Scottish, 19-20

_Prelude_ (Wordsworth), 234

Prestonpans, 26

Prior, Matthew, 42

Princes Street, Edinburgh, 8

Provençal, 23

_Psalms_, 40, 135, 151, 236

Puritanism, 16-17

Queensberry, William Douglas, Duke of, 225

Raeburn, Sir Henry, 107

Ramsay, Allan, 23-25, 75, 91, 104, 247, 248-249, 252, 301, 304

Ramsay, David, 288

Ramsay, John, 287

Rankine, Anne, 68

Rankine, John, 74, 77, 98, 249

_Rantin’ Rovin’ Robin_, 307

‘Rape of the Sabines, The,’ 122, 180-181

Reformation, Scottish, 23, 290

Regency Bill, 226

Reid, Alexander, 183, 229

Religion, 59

Religion, Burns’s, 278-287

_Reliques of Ancient English Poetry_ (Percy), 25, 43

Revolution of 1688, 288-289

Riccarton, 76

Richardson, Samuel, 58

Richmond, John, 13, 65, 89-90, 112, 141, 143, 144, 147, 151

Riddell, Elizabeth Kennedy (Mrs. Robert), 177, 181, 182

Riddell, Jean Fergusson, 177

Riddell, Maria Banks Woodley, 105, 110, 122-123, 125, 144, 148, 152,
175, 176-187, 219, 267, 295, 298

Riddell, Robert, 61, 96, 120-124, 148, 176, 181, 182, 260, 265, 267,
291, 294

Riddell, Walter, 122, 127, 176-177, 178, 181, 182

_Rights of Man, The_, 292, 299

Robertson, William, 22, 31, 155

Robertson, William, of Lude, 291

Rochester, 11

Rockingham, Charles Watson-Wentworth, Marquis of, 225

Rodger, Hugh, 55

_Rosamond_, schooner, 226-227, 295, 297

Ross, Alexander, 24

Rossetti, Christina, 162

Rotary Club, 104

Rousseau, Jean Jacques, 272, 299, 300

Rowe, Elizabeth, 60

Russell, John, 76

Ryedale, 126, 130

Sabbath, Scottish, 17, 92

St. Giles Cathedral, Edinburgh, 9

St. James’s Lodge, Tarbolton, 67-68, 91

St. Kitts, 176

St. Mary’s Isle, 131-132

Samothrace, Victory of, 250

Sanitation, 9-13

Satan, Milton’s, 164, 282

Savannah-la-Mar, 192

Schetki, Theodor, 28

_Schoolmistress, The_ (Shenstone), 57

Schools, Scottish, 38-42

_Scotch Drink_, 248

_Scotland and the Union_ (W. L. Mathieson), quoted, 18-19

Scots language, 23-31, 75

_Scots Magazine_, 31, 100, 228

_Scots Musical Museum, The_, 120-121, 214, 220, 254-264, 269, 273-274,
276

‘Scots wha hae,’ 272-273, 292, 300

Scott, Sir Walter, 6, 9, 44, 47, 65, 100, 104, 121, 135, 197, 246,
261, 265, 267, 274, 293, 300, 304, 305

Scottish National Gallery, 8

_Seasons, The_ (Thomson), 25, 57

Sedition trials, 272

_Select Collection of Scotish Airs_ (Thomson), 205, 257, 264, 268-277

Selkirk, Dunbar Douglas, Earl of, 96, 131-132, 293

Sentimentality, 58

_Sentimental Tommy_, 153

_Shadow of the Glen, The_ (Synge), 46

Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, Earl of, 22

Shakespeare, William, 11, 34-35, 42, 261

Sharpe, Charles Kirkpatrick, 102

Shaw, George Bernard, 65

Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 35, 239, 306

Shenstone, William, 57, 75, 238

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 278

Sheridan, Thomas, 29

Sidney, Sir Philip, 28

Sillar, David, 65, 89

Simpson, William, 244, 249

Sinclair, Sir John, 29-30, 301, 302

_Six Excellent New Songs_, 45

Skinner, John, 43, 256

Smellie, William, 103, 105-106, 110, 121, 177-178, 181, 253, 254

Smith, Adam, 31, 206, 278

Smith, James, 13, 89-90, 112, 150, 173, 249

Smith, Leonard, 215, 216

Smollett, Tobias, 58

Smuggling, 56

Snyder, Franklyn Bliss, 145, 147, 199

Solway, 184-187, 226

_Sorrows of Werther, The_, 115, 125

Souter Johnie, 97

South Sea Bubble, 7

Southey, Robert, 197

_Sow’s Tail to Geordie, The_, 26

_Spectator, The_, 31, 42, 164, 302

Spenser, Edmund, 42, 157

Spenserian stanza, 57

Spinoza, Baruch, 281

Stackhouse, Thomas, 48

Staig, David, 223, 224

_Star_, London, 205

Steenson, Steenie, 305

Sterne, Laurence, 42, 66

Stevenson, Robert Louis, 305

Stewart, Catherine Gordon, of Stair, 153

Stewart, Dugald, 61, 96-97, 98, 99, 118, 195

Stewart, Mrs. --, 165, 209

Stewart, William, 229

Stinking Vennel, Dumfries, 221, 222

Stirling, 209, 294

Stobbie, Adam, 130, 232

Stuart, House of, 4, 287-289, 294

Stuart, Peter, 205

Surgeoner, Jenny, 13, 143

_Sweet Afton_, 307

Swift, Jonathan, 60, 304

Syme, John, 57, 96, 109, 111, 125-134, 174, 181, 203, 229, 267, 295,
296

Synge, John Millington, 46

_Tam Glen_, 264

_Tam o’ Shanter_, 59, 121, 204, 264-268, 305

Tarbolton, 62-67, 89, 90, 124

Tarbolton Bachelors’ Club, 63-66, 88, 89

Tarbolton Mill, 165, 167

_Tatler, The_, 42, 302

Taylor, John, 100

_Tea-Table Miscellany_ (Ramsay), 25

Telford, Thomas, 127, 213

Tennant, John, 211

‘The last time I cam o’er the moor,’ 179

‘The robin cam to the wren’s nest,’ 277

Thompson, Harold William, 305

Thomson, George, 61, 109, 133-134, 148, 186, 205, 232, 241, 243, 244,
249, 256, 258, 260, 264, 268-277

Thomson, James, 25, 28, 31, 42, 57, 151, 302

Thomson, Peggy, 56, 59, 69, 146

‘Thou Lingering Star,’ 148

_Thrawn Janet_, 305

Tinwald House, 182

_Titus Andronicus_, 34-35

_To a Haggis_, 248

_To a Mountain Daisy_, 59, 307

_To a Mouse_, 307

_Toddlin hame_, 275

‘To Fanny fair could I impart,’ 242

Tooke, Andrew, 49

Tooke, John Horne, 226

Tories, 225-226

_Treatise on Solitude_ (Zimmermann), 125

Tudor, House of, 288

_Tullochgorum_, 43, 256

_Twa Dogs, The_, 154

_Twa Herds, The_, 76, 92-93

Twain, Mark, 65, 280

Tytler, William, 253

Union, Act of, 3, 6, 16, 23, 302-303

Unitarianism, 280

United States, 7, 29, 190, 218, 289, 290

Urbani, Pietro, 28

Versailles, 100

_Vicar of Wakefield, The_, 31

Virgil, 252, 276

Vocabulary, Burns’s, 247

Voltaire, 300

Wallace, Lady Antonia, of Craigie, 155

Wallace, Lady Eglintoune Maxwell, 155

_Wallace, Sir William, History of_ (Blind Harry), 25, 45

Wallace, Sir William, 82, 153, 154, 234

Walpole, Horace, 278

Wardlaw, Lady Elizabeth, 27, 42-43

Washington, George, 290

Watson, John, 305, 307

Wedderburn, Alexander, 301

Wesley, John, 14, 278

West Indies, 7

Westminster, 293

‘When Princes and Prelates,’ 111

Whigs, 102, 131, 225-226, 230-231, 287, 294

_Whistle, The_, 121-122, 225

‘Whistle and I’ll come to you, my lad,’ 264

Whitefoord, Sir John, 91, 99

Wig Club, Edinburgh, 104

Wigglesworth, Michael, 20

Wilkes, John, 287, 289

Wilson, John (‘Dr. Hornbook’), 39, 83

Wilson, John (Kilmarnock), 194

Wolcot, John, 270

Wolsey, Cardinal, 40

Women, Burns’s views on, 149-150

Women, education of, 37, 135-136

_Wonder: A Woman Keeps a Secret_, The, 295

Wood, Alexander, 210

Woodley Park, 122-123, 178-179, 180, 182

Wordsworth, William, 226, 234, 241, 278, 284, 304, 306

World War, 303

Young, Edward, 169, 279

‘Young Jocky was the blithest lad,’ 272

York, House of, 288

Zimmermann, Johann Georg von, 125

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Transcriber’s note

Spelling within quotations has been retained as published. Minor
punctuation errors have been changed without notice. The following
Printer errors have been changed.

Page 8: “ridge which parallelled it” “ridge which paralleled it”
Page 65: “described Tarbolton townfolk” “described Tarbolton
townsfolk”
Page 164: “was promising lifelong” “was promising life-long”
Page 166: “The artificial and hot-house” “The artificial and
hothouse”
Page 180: “burlesque of the espisode” “burlesque of the episode”
Page 249: “as the workingday world” “as the working-day world”
Page 312: “Crane, Icabod” “Crane, Ichabod”
Page 316: “Masons. _See_ Freemasons” “Masons. _See_ Freemasonry”

All other inconsistencies are as in the original.