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... fact , he laughed at Mackenzie , and in his poem , " The Sow of Feeling ' , implicitly ridiculed Mackenzie's famous sentimental novel , The Man of Feeling . Burns , however , as we shall see , did for a time attempt a rapprochement with ...
... fact , he laughed at Mackenzie , and in his poem , " The Sow of Feeling ' , implicitly ridiculed Mackenzie's famous sentimental novel , The Man of Feeling . Burns , however , as we shall see , did for a time attempt a rapprochement with ...
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... fact possessed of much ability or character . Burns at this time needed their friendship and needed to believe that they were more ' sympathique ' than they in fact were ; and so he welcomed their friendship and made something of it ...
... fact possessed of much ability or character . Burns at this time needed their friendship and needed to believe that they were more ' sympathique ' than they in fact were ; and so he welcomed their friendship and made something of it ...
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... fact a good bargain . The soil was poor and neglected ; as Patrick Miller , the landlord , admitted years later : ' When I purchased this estate about five and twenty years ago , I had not seen it . It was in the most miserable state of ...
... fact a good bargain . The soil was poor and neglected ; as Patrick Miller , the landlord , admitted years later : ' When I purchased this estate about five and twenty years ago , I had not seen it . It was in the most miserable state of ...
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