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... gives a brief but vivid description of the insults to be endured by ' poor tenant bodies ' at the hands of landlords . Luath replies with a sharply etched picture of the bright side of rustic life , wholly unsentimental and quite free ...
... gives a brief but vivid description of the insults to be endured by ' poor tenant bodies ' at the hands of landlords . Luath replies with a sharply etched picture of the bright side of rustic life , wholly unsentimental and quite free ...
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... gives brilliant expression to man as out- cast and vagabond . Complete independence of social order implies poverty , squalor and vice , but Burns does not shrink from that . He is not romanticizing independence from society , but ...
... gives brilliant expression to man as out- cast and vagabond . Complete independence of social order implies poverty , squalor and vice , but Burns does not shrink from that . He is not romanticizing independence from society , but ...
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