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... social outcasts and put into their mouths roaring songs of social defiance and swaggering independence . There was always a streak of pure anarchism in Burns , and here he associates it with conviviality in a characteristic way . All ...
... social outcasts and put into their mouths roaring songs of social defiance and swaggering independence . There was always a streak of pure anarchism in Burns , and here he associates it with conviviality in a characteristic way . All ...
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... social and intellectual capacities was wearing him down . After trying for a long time , he finally obtained a post in the excise service in 1789 , and in 1791 he moved to Dumfries , where he lived until his death in July 1796 , caused ...
... social and intellectual capacities was wearing him down . After trying for a long time , he finally obtained a post in the excise service in 1789 , and in 1791 he moved to Dumfries , where he lived until his death in July 1796 , caused ...
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... social position , for the slightest suggestion of condescension on the part of a social ' superior ' infuriated him . He never found a way of life that really solved his social and intellectual problems . Burns was the greatest song ...
... social position , for the slightest suggestion of condescension on the part of a social ' superior ' infuriated him . He never found a way of life that really solved his social and intellectual problems . Burns was the greatest song ...
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