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Burns loved this old church--already in ruins in his time--so much he buried his father in its grounds, and it is the inspiration for his most famous poem, Tam o'Shanter.
News at Eleven: Walking through the simple abode, Rus Bowden 2009
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Burns loved this old church--already in ruins in his time--so much he buried his father in its grounds, and it is the inspiration for his most famous poem, Tam o'Shanter.
Archive 2009-11-01 Rus Bowden 2009
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Burns-street, Dumfries, in which the bard of "Tam o'Shanter" and his wife "bonnie Jean," lived and died, is about to come into the market by way of public auction.
International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 7, August 12, 1850 Various
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He used to read "Tam o'Shanter" to Thea Kronborg, and he got her some of the songs, set to the old airs for which they were written.
The song of the lark 1915
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He used to read "Tam o'Shanter" to Thea Kronborg, and he got her some of the songs, set to the old airs for which they were written.
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The captain, looking like a pirate in his Tam o'Shanter cap, or the pink little mate with the suggestion of a mustache on his upper lip, if they had been informed about sailing hour, were never willing to divulge the secret.
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They also have felt Tam o'Shanter caps, which they affect with quite a rakish tilt.
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The Spanish mariners, in rakish Tam o'Shanter caps, lounge at the entrance to the warehouse, or the office of the _Compania
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He used to read "Tam o'Shanter" to Thea Kronborg, and he got her some of the songs, set to the old airs for which they were written.
The Song of the Lark Willa Sibert Cather 1910
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The universal seizure by the sex upon the boy's "Tam o'Shanter" as peculiarly suited for a play and school-hat, is therefore right and proper.
Practical Suggestions for Mother and Housewife Marion Mills Miller 1906
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