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... genteel sentimentalists of his day . He paraded himself before them as a ' Heaven - taught ploughman ' , pretending that he was much less educated than he in fact was , and play- ing the part of the simple ' natural man ' that ...
... genteel sentimentalists of his day . He paraded himself before them as a ' Heaven - taught ploughman ' , pretending that he was much less educated than he in fact was , and play- ing the part of the simple ' natural man ' that ...
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... genteel Edinburgh 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 ...
... genteel Edinburgh 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 ...
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... genteel tradition to accept much of it at its face value , and though , to his ultimate glory , he kept returning to what his own instincts told him was the true path for him to follow , far too many of his poems are marred by a naïve ...
... genteel tradition to accept much of it at its face value , and though , to his ultimate glory , he kept returning to what his own instincts told him was the true path for him to follow , far too many of his poems are marred by a naïve ...
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