Robert Burns: How To Know Him

by William Allan Neilson

• [I Gaed a Waefu' Gate], quoted [117].
• [I Hae a Wife], quoted [59], [103].
• [I Hae Been at Crookieden], quoted [167].
• [I'm Owre Young to Marry Yet], quoted [143].
• Independence, Scottish love of, [311].
• Irvine, [23].
• [It Was a' for our Rightfu' King], quoted [162].

• Jacobite Songs, [161] ff.
• Jacobitism, [63].
• [John Anderson, my Jo], [145], quoted [146].
• Johnson, James, [65], [91], [94], [97], [98], [316].

• [Kenmure's On and Awa], quoted [165].
• Kilmarnock Edition. [37]-39.
• Kilpatrick, Nelly, [20], [22], [110].
• Kirk of Scotland, Opposition to, [171].
• Kirkoswald, [17], [254].
• Kirkyard Eclogues, [84].
• Knox, John, [71].
• Kozeluch, [95].

• La Fontaine, [272].
• Laddie Lie Near Me, [92].
• Lament for the Earl of Glencairn, [49].
• Language of Burns, [69] ff.
• [Lassie wi' the Lint-white Locks], quoted [119].
• Last Dying Words of Bonny Heck, [82].
• [Last May a Braw Wooer], quoted [135].
• Last Speech of a Wretched Miser, [83].
• Leith Races, [84].
• Lewars, Jessie, [110], [122].
• Lindesay, Sir David, [71].
• Lindsay, Lady Anne, [82].
• Lochlea, [5] ff.
• London Monthly Review, [46].
• Lorimer, Jean (Chloris), [110], [111].
• Lounger, The, [46].
• Lowland Scots, [69] ff.
• Lucky Spence's Last Advice, [82].

• Mackenzie, Henry, [19], [45], [46], [86].
• [Macpherson's Farewell], quoted [150].
• McGill, Doctor, [186].
• McLehose, Mrs., [52]-58.
• [Mary Morison], quoted [28].
• Mauchline, [31], [50].
• Merry Beggars, [238].
• Miller, Elizabeth, [37].
• Milton, [85].
• [Montgomerie's Peggy], quoted [120].
• Montgomery, Alexander, [79], [316].
• Moore, Dr. John: [5]; letter to, [1]-2, [18], [83].
• Mossgiel, [31]-44.
• Mount Oliphant, [4]-5.
• Murdoch, John, [5], [15]-17, [90]-91.
• Murray, Sir William, [51].
• Muse, jocular treatment of his, [203] ff.
• Music, Burns's knowledge of, [90] ff.
• Music and song, [169]-170, [322].
• [My Father was a Farmer], quoted [126].
• [My Heart's in the Highlands], quoted [140].
• [My Love She's but a Lassie Yet], [141], quoted [144].
• [My Love is Like a Red, Red Rose], [101], quoted [102].
• [My Nannie's Awa], quoted [57]-58, [75], [103], [266].
• [My Nannie O], quoted [29]-30, [103].
• [My Wife's a Winsome Wee Thing], quoted [108].

• Nairne, Lady, [162].
• Nature in Burns, [318].
• New Lichts, [179], [188].
• Nicol, William, [50], [52].

• [O, For Ane an' Twenty, Tam!], quoted [129].
• [O Merry Hae I Been], quoted [148].
• [O This is No my Ain Lassie], quoted [107].
• [O, Wert Thou in the Cauld Blast], [122], quoted [123].
• [Of a' the Airts], quoted [106].
• [On a Scotch Bard, Gone to the West Indies], quoted, [42]-44.
• On Seeing a Wounded Hare, [86].
• [Open the Door to me, O!] quoted [137].

• Park, Anne, [110].
• Paton, Elizabeth, [32].
• Peasant characteristics of Burns, [311], [312].
• Percy, Bishop, [81].
• Planestanes and Causey, [84].
• Pleyel, [95].
• Politics, [63]-65.
• [Poor Mailie's Elegy], quoted [26]-27.
• [Poortith Cauld], [106], quoted [107].
• Poosie Nansie, [239].
• Pope, [86], [269].
• Practical Essay on the Death of Jesus Christ, [186].
• [Prayer in the Prospect of Death], quoted [32].

• Ramsay, Allan, [79], [81], [82], [83], [84], [99], [103], [238], [316].
• Ramsay of Ochtertyre, [51].
• Realism, [267].
• Reformation, influence of, [95] ff.
• Reliques of Ancient English Poetry, [81].
• Richmond, [44].
• Riddel, Col. Robert, [60].

• Satires and Epistles, [171] ff.
• Scenery in Burns, [265] ff.
• [Scotch Drink], [38], [84], [294], quoted [301].
• Scots Musical Museum, [65], [95], [97].
• [Scots, Wha Hae], quoted [160].
• Scott, Alexander, [79].
• Scott, Sir Walter, [44], [46]-48, [161]-162.
• Scottish Dialect, [69] ff.
• Scottish Folk-song, [96] ff.
• Scottish Literature, [78] ff.
• Scottish Song, [90] ff.
• Sea in Scottish poetry, [264]-265.
• Seasons, [318].
• Select Collection of Original Scottish Airs, [95].
• Sempills, [79], [80], [294], [316].
• Shaftesbury, [193].
• Shakespeare, [85], [321].
• Shelley, [322].
• Shenstone, [86].
• Sibbald, James, [46].
• [Simmer's a Pleasant Time], quoted [131].
• Smith, Adam, [44].
• Sterne, [86], [270].
• Stewart, Dugald, [45].
• Stirling, Alexander, Earl of, [72].
• Stuart-Menteath, Sir James, [93].