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In spite of everything , in spite of humble position , lack of formal education , poverty , disgrace , and illness , he had become a real poet . The Kilmarnock volume contained only a selection of Burns's output up to 1786 , and some of ...
In spite of everything , in spite of humble position , lack of formal education , poverty , disgrace , and illness , he had become a real poet . The Kilmarnock volume contained only a selection of Burns's output up to 1786 , and some of ...
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... of the rural Don Juan : hence arose most of his misery : he could love , and ride away , and repent ' . Clearly , if Burns's own feelings had become petrified he would not have felt the horror of petrified feeling which he expresses ...
... of the rural Don Juan : hence arose most of his misery : he could love , and ride away , and repent ' . Clearly , if Burns's own feelings had become petrified he would not have felt the horror of petrified feeling which he expresses ...
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The seventh stanza asserts that it is a good thing to be wealthy , if you can become so without recourse to dishonourable means , not in order to show off your wealth ' but for the glorious privilege of being indepen- dent ' .
The seventh stanza asserts that it is a good thing to be wealthy , if you can become so without recourse to dishonourable means , not in order to show off your wealth ' but for the glorious privilege of being indepen- dent ' .
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