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to take and stock for hiself the far of ellisnd dufriesshire his fa as poet had renciled the arours to the nnection, and havg now regurly arried jean, he brought her to ellisnd, and once ore tried farg for three years ntued ill-suess, however, led hi, 1791, to abandon ellisnd, and he oved to dufries, where he had obtaed a position the excise but he was now thoroughly disurad; his work was re drudry; his tendency to take his rexation debauchery creased the weakness of a nstitution early undered; and he died at dufries his thirty-eighth year

it is not necessary here to attept to disentangle or exp away the nuro aours which he was engad through the greater part of his life it is evident that burns was a an of extrely passionate nature and fond of nviviality; and the isfortunes of his lot bed with his natural tendencies to drive hi to freent excesses of self-dulnce he was often reorseful, and he strove pafully, if terittently, after better thgs but the story of his life t be aditted to be its externals a paful and what rdid chronicle that it ntaed, however, any onts of joy and exaltation is proved by the poes here prted

burns&039; poetry falls to o a groups: english and sttish his english poes are, for the ost part, ferior specins of nventional eighteenth-century verse but sttish poetry he achieved triuphs of a ite extraordary kd sce the ti of the reforation and the union of the crowns of engnd and stnd, the sts dialect had rly fallen to dise as a diu for dignified writg shortly before burns&039; ti, however, aln rasay and robert fergn had been the leadg figures a revival of the vernacur, and burns received fro the a national tradition which he sueeded carryg to its highest pitch, beg thereby, to an alost unie degree, the poet of his people

he first showed plete astery of verse the field of satire “the a herds,” “holy willie&039;s prayer,” “address to the un guid,” “the holy fair,” and others, he anifested sypathy with the protest of the