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But he never completely shed the traces of Murdoch's education , and they weave in and out of his later poetry unpredictably . Hard times at Mount Oliphant also turned his thoughts to tragedy , and ' the bursting cloud of family ...
But he never completely shed the traces of Murdoch's education , and they weave in and out of his later poetry unpredictably . Hard times at Mount Oliphant also turned his thoughts to tragedy , and ' the bursting cloud of family ...
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If this conjecture is sound , we have ample explanation of the tone of all Burns's later references to her , of his self - reproach , his mystifications and his morbid exaggerations . The fact is that , in spite of the romantic Highland ...
If this conjecture is sound , we have ample explanation of the tone of all Burns's later references to her , of his self - reproach , his mystifications and his morbid exaggerations . The fact is that , in spite of the romantic Highland ...
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I am nearly agreed with Creech to print my book ' , he wrote to Ballantine on December 13 , and a month later he wrote to the same correspondent that ' I have this day corrected my 152d page ' . In coming to an arrangement with Creech ...
I am nearly agreed with Creech to print my book ' , he wrote to Ballantine on December 13 , and a month later he wrote to the same correspondent that ' I have this day corrected my 152d page ' . In coming to an arrangement with Creech ...
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