138-139, 203
Burnes, Robert (grandfather of the poet), 36
Burnes, Robert (uncle of the poet), 36, 60
Burnes, William (father of the poet), 8, 34, 35, 36-39, 41, 42-43, 48,
49-50, 55, 59, 62, 70, 71-73, 84, 85-88, 90, 279
Burness, James, 117, 232
Burnet, Elizabeth, of Manboddo, 240
Burns, Agnes (sister of the poet), 49
Burns, Elizabeth Paton (daughter of the poet), 74, 138-139, 143, 150,
203
Burns, Elizabeth Riddell (daughter of the poet), 183-184
Burns, Gilbert (brother of the poet), 11, 34, 37, 41, 48, 50, 55, 59,
63, 68, 73, 87, 88, 90, 95, 122, 138, 143, 186, 202-203, 208, 214,
220, 245
Burns, Isabella (sister of the poet). _See_ Begg, Isabella Burns
Burns, Jean Armour, 13, 83, 90, 91-92, 109, 110, 113, 114-115, 118,
126, 133, 136, 138, 139-144, 146-148, 150, 153, 156, 164, 165,
167-170, 172-176, 185, 187, 189, 192-193, 201, 212, 214, 217, 220,
221, 232, 233
Burns, John (brother of the poet), 88
Burns, Robert, _Poems_. See _Poems_, Burns’s
Burns, Robert, the poet, _passim_. Specific references are to be found
in association with other persons, topics, or places.
Burns, Robert (son of the poet), 167, 174, 185
Burns, William (brother of the poet), 166, 203-204, 215
Burns, William Nicol (son of the poet), 119
Burns Clubs, 301, 306-308
Burton, Robert, 42
_Bush aboon Traquair, The_, 48, 255
Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 5, 301
Butler, Samuel, 300
Byron, George Noel Gordon, Lord, 109, 278
Cadell and Davies, 199
Caedmon, 23
_Ça Ira_, 295-296
Caledonian Hunt, 99, 127, 197
_Caller Oysters_, 248
Calton Hill, 118
Calvin, John, 19
Calvinism, 5, 16-23, 66, 162, 163, 279-287
Cameron, Meg, 113, 118, 148, 151, 152, 165, 208
Campbell, Mary, 138, 144-149, 250, 307
Canada, 190
Candlish, James, 30, 62, 281
Cape Club, Edinburgh, 105
Caroline lyrics, 42
Carronades, Burns’s purchase of, 227, 295, 297
Carswell, Catherine, 84, 180
Catalan, 23
Catrine House, 96-97, 195
Cawdor Castle, 48
Centlivre, Susannah, 295
Chalmers, Margaret, 148, 160-161, 164, 256
Channing, William Eilery, 280, 285
Chapbooks, Scottish, 45-46
Chapman, George, 49, 75
Chatterton, Thomas, 62, 79
Chaucer, Geoffrey, 23, 42, 46
Chesterton, G. K., 66
Children, Burns’s feelings toward, 150-153
Chloris. _See_ Lorimer, Jean.
_Christabel_, 243
_Chronicle_, London, 134, 206
Clarinda. _See_ M’Lehose, Agnes.
Clarke, Samuel, 128
Clarke, Stephen, 257-258
Class-consciousness, Burns’s, 52-53
Claverhouse, John Graham of, Viscount Dundee, 301
Cleghorn, Robert, 109-111, 253, 291
Clint, Henry, 120
Clochnahill, 36
Clow, Jenny, 113, 118, 144, 146, 148, 152, 165, 170-171, 221
Clydesdale, 50
Cockburn, Alison, 43
Cockburn, Henry, 103, 108, 293
Cockney dialect, 30, 247
Coila, 157
Cole, Elisha, 281
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 243
_Comical Sayings of Paddy from Cork, The_, 46
‘Coming thro’ the rye,’ 26
Commonplace Book, Burns’s, 236-239, 242-244, 259
Composition, Burns’s methods of, 241-246
Connaught, 81
Constable, Archibald, 106
Copyrights, Burns’s, 199-201, 274
Corbet, William, 129, 294, 296
Corri, Domenico, 28
_Cotter’s Saturday Night, The_, 58, 154, 246, 269, 307
_Court of Equity, The_, 111, 146
Court of Session, 86
Cowper, William, 278
Craig, Lord, 162, 165
Craigdarroch, 121
Crane, Ichabod, 39
Creech, William, 100, 105, 106, 161, 165, 169, 197-201, 204-205, 220
Criffel, 187
Crochallan Fencibles, 104-109, 253, 254, 255
Cromek, Robert Hartley, 161
Cullen, William, 155
Cunningham, Alexander, 107-109, 110, 112, 118, 125, 126, 133-134, 167,
205, 240, 253, 268, 285, 286
Currie, James, 125, 182, 246, 273
‘Cutty stool,’ 17
Daer, Basil William, Lord, 96, 131, 291, 293
_Daft Days, The_, 25, 248
Dalrymple, 51
Dalrymple, William, 279
Dalswinton, 114, 207-212
Dalyell, Sir John Graham, 124
Dalziel, Alexander, 98, 99, 195
Darien Expedition, 7
Davidson, Betty, 44, 136
Davies, Deborah Duff, 149
Deans, Jamie, 283
Deans, Jeanie, 305
_Death and Dr. Hornbook_, 39, 46, 83
Death, Burns’s, 133
Deists, 20, 22, 281, 286
Democracy, Scottish, 32-33
Dempster, George, 32, 290
Dickens, Charles, 65, 266, 300
Dinmont, Dandie, 305
Dods, --, 127-128
Dods, Meg, 305
Don, Lady Harriet, 61, 132
Doonholm, 36
Douglas and Heron Bank, 16, 70, 85, 230
Douglas, Charles, 192
Douglas, Gawain, 23, 247
Douglas, Lady Mary, 132
_Douglas, Tragedy of_, 21, 40
Douglas, William, 250
Dover, 227
Drama, Burns and the, 251-252
Drama, in Edinburgh, 21
Dramatic lyric, Burns’s use of, 250-251
Dramatic monologue, Burns’s use of, 250-251
Drummond, William, of Hawthornden, 23
Dryden, John, 42
Dumfries, 68, 110, 113, 118, 124-134, 152, 160, 171, 177, 208, 219,
221-233, 267, 294-297, 298
Dumfries Academy, 224
Dumfries Burgh Council, 224
Dumfries Public Library, 106
Dumfries Theatre, 179, 295-296
Dumfries Volunteers, 228, 231, 232, 295, 299
Dunbar, William (the poet), 23, 247
Dunbar, William (Edinburgh), 106, 157, 254
Duncan, Adam, 303
Dundas, Henry, 5, 101, 108, 116, 207, 292, 301
Dundas, Robert, 107, 108
Dunlop, Andrew, 82
Dunlop, Frances Anna Wallace, 61, 96, 101, 148, 150, 151, 152,
153-160, 167, 194, 199, 206, 209, 240, 260, 267, 282-283, 284, 286,
297-298, 302
Dunlop House, 156, 167
Dunlop, Keith, 157, 167
Dunlop, Rachel, 156, 167
Dunlop, Thomas, 154
Dunnottar, 36
Dunscore, 288
Dunse, 112, 113
Durham, 127
East India Company, 6, 190
East Lothian, 208
Easy Club, Edinburgh, 105
Eclogues, Virgil’s, 252
Edinburgh, 7-10, 75, 78, 94, 99-119, 124, 153, 162-172, 195-202,
209-210, 216, 221, 245, 252, 291-293, 294
Edinburgh High School, 116, 119
Edinburgh University, 8, 96
Eglinton, Archibald Montgomerie, Earl of, 197, 202
Eglinton, Countess of, 197
Eglinton Wood, 82
_Elegies_ (Shenstone), 57
_Elegy on the Death of Sir James Hunter Blair_, 240
_Elibanks and Elibraes_, 48, 255
Elizabethan lyrics, 42
Elliot, Jean, 43
Ellisland, 101, 110, 113-115, 119-122, 158, 174, 202, 203, 207-222,
262
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 261, 280, 285
_Encyclopædia Britannica_, 105
_Epistle to John Rankine_, 77
Erskine, Andrew, 91, 99
Erskine, Henry, 108, 293
Erskine, John Francis, of Mar, 291, 297
_Esopus to Maria_, 181
_Evening Courant_, Edinburgh, 288
_Eve of St. Agnes, The_, 250
Excise, 55, 98, 101, 109, 115, 116, 129-130, 133, 165, 169, 170, 190,
206-207, 209-210, 212, 214-233, 262, 269, 277, 289, 294, 296
Faculty of Advocates, 293
Falstaff, 167
Farington, Joseph, 121, 165
Farming, Burns’s, 204, 210-222
Fénelon, François, 51
_Ferdinand Count Fathom_, 58
Fergusson, Alexander, of Craigdarroch, 121-122, 291
Fergusson, Robert, 25, 61, 75, 91, 104, 105, 134, 221, 237, 241-242,
247-248, 252, 304
Fergusson, William, 36, 50, 53
Ferrara, Duke of, 250
Fifeshire, 247
’Fifteen, Rebellion of, 36, 287, 304
Findlater, Alexander, 96, 129-130, 217, 219, 229, 296
Fisher, Edward, 281
Flax-dressing, Burns and, 71, 79-84
Fletcher, Andrew, of Saltoun, 301
_Flowers of Edinburgh, The_, 272
_Flowers of the Forest, The_, 43
Folk-songs, Scottish, 26-28, 38, 43-44, 75, 132, 252-263, 269
Fornicators’ Court, 112
’Forty-five, Rebellion of, 4, 7, 26, 46, 287, 292, 304
_Four-Fold State_ (Thomas Boston), 19, 37, 279, 281
Fox, Charles James, 294
Franklin, Benjamin, 22, 61, 100, 103, 266
Freemasonry, 67-68, 87, 99, 104, 144, 145, 297
French, Burns’s knowledge of, 51-52
French Convention, 227, 295
French Revolution, 51, 119, 128, 159-160, 182, 226-228, 270, 272,
290-299, 306
Friars Carse, 120, 176, 177, 181, 182, 212, 265
_Friars Carse Hermitage, Written in_, 262
Friends of the People, 293-294
_Gala Water_, 255
Galileo, 297
Galloway, Burns’s tour in, 229
Galloway, John Stewart, Earl of, 131
Galt, John, 305
_Gazetteer_, Edinburgh, 297
_Gentlemen’s Magazine_, 31
George III, 292, 296-297
_Geographical Grammar_ (Guthrie), 48
_Gillicrankie_, 237
Glasgow, 7, 83, 166
Glasgow University, 20, 30
Glenbervie, 36
Glencairn, Elizabeth M’Quire, Countess of, 132
Glencairn, James, Earl of, 95, 98-101, 107, 120, 195-197, 209, 210,
216, 240
Glenconner, 211
Globe Inn, Dumfries, 120, 174
_God Save the King_, 295-296
Godwin, William, 278
Goldielea, 122, 178
Goldsmith, Oliver, 31, 302
Gordon Castle, 117
Gordon, Jane, Duchess of, 117, 132, 159
Gow, Neil, 27
Graham, Dugal, 11, 45-46
Graham, Robert, of Fintry, 68, 111, 116, 207, 216, 223, 224, 294, 297
_Grave, The_ (Blair), 259
Gray, James, 124, 152
Gray, Thomas, 103, 157
Greenfield, William, 252
Greenock, 192-193, 306
Grieve, James, 85
_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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