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Page 152
... Nature's social union , An ' justifies that ill opinion , Which makes thee startle At me , thy poor , earth - born companion , An ' fellow - mortal ! We may wince a little at ' Nature's social union ' , a piece of neoclassic English ...
... Nature's social union , An ' justifies that ill opinion , Which makes thee startle At me , thy poor , earth - born companion , An ' fellow - mortal ! We may wince a little at ' Nature's social union ' , a piece of neoclassic English ...
Page 156
... Nature ' as Mackenzie and those who thought as he did would have liked , and in trying to write for such an audience the poet only distorted his genius . His view of nature was equally different from that of the eighteenth - century ...
... Nature ' as Mackenzie and those who thought as he did would have liked , and in trying to write for such an audience the poet only distorted his genius . His view of nature was equally different from that of the eighteenth - century ...
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... nature which Burns presents in describing the aspects of his native countryside which constituted the subject of his verse is not at all that of the Romantic poets . There is in Burns no feeling for sublimity ( except in storms ) , no ...
... nature which Burns presents in describing the aspects of his native countryside which constituted the subject of his verse is not at all that of the Romantic poets . There is in Burns no feeling for sublimity ( except in storms ) , no ...
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