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... audience he is hoping for , and we get this : All hail ! ye tender feelings dear ! The smile of love , the friendly tear , The sympathetic glow ! Long since , this world's thorny ways Had number'd out my weary days , Had it not been for ...
... audience he is hoping for , and we get this : All hail ! ye tender feelings dear ! The smile of love , the friendly tear , The sympathetic glow ! Long since , this world's thorny ways Had number'd out my weary days , Had it not been for ...
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... audience . In his preface he played up to contemporary sentimental views about the natural man and the noble peasant , exaggerated his lack of education , pretended to a lack of technical re- sources which was ridiculous in the light of ...
... audience . In his preface he played up to contemporary sentimental views about the natural man and the noble peasant , exaggerated his lack of education , pretended to a lack of technical re- sources which was ridiculous in the light of ...
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... audience . He omitted ' The Ordination ' a brilliant satire on Ayrshire church politics in the same stanza as ' The Holy Fair ' and done with greater verve and dexterity . He omitted the ' Address to the Unco Guid ' , a somewhat ...
... audience . He omitted ' The Ordination ' a brilliant satire on Ayrshire church politics in the same stanza as ' The Holy Fair ' and done with greater verve and dexterity . He omitted the ' Address to the Unco Guid ' , a somewhat ...
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