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... turning out edifying genteel platitudes about the life of the peasant . There is yet another Burns , besides the unromantic love poet and the posturing sentimentalist , and that Burns , though largely ignored by the Burns cult , has a ...
... turning out edifying genteel platitudes about the life of the peasant . There is yet another Burns , besides the unromantic love poet and the posturing sentimentalist , and that Burns , though largely ignored by the Burns cult , has a ...
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... for inspiration , thus saving himself from turning into a minor English sentimental poet and achieving single - handed a re- markable Indian Summer for Scottish poetry . III Robert Burns was born in 1759 in the village 12 BURNS.
... for inspiration , thus saving himself from turning into a minor English sentimental poet and achieving single - handed a re- markable Indian Summer for Scottish poetry . III Robert Burns was born in 1759 in the village 12 BURNS.
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... turning her up in her nest with the plough , and goes on to reflect that , just as the mouse's provision for winter has been brought to nothing by this accident , so The best - laid schemes o ' Mice an ' Men Gang aft agley and he ...
... turning her up in her nest with the plough , and goes on to reflect that , just as the mouse's provision for winter has been brought to nothing by this accident , so The best - laid schemes o ' Mice an ' Men Gang aft agley and he ...
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