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In the second verse there is no real pause at all : I'm truly sorry Man's dominion Has broken Nature's social union , An ' justifies that ill opinion , Which makes thee startle At me , thy poor , earth - born companion , An ' fellow ...
In the second verse there is no real pause at all : I'm truly sorry Man's dominion Has broken Nature's social union , An ' justifies that ill opinion , Which makes thee startle At me , thy poor , earth - born companion , An ' fellow ...
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Nature ' . The fact is , however , that Burns was not equipped to handle ' the scenery of 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 ...
Nature ' . The fact is , however , that Burns was not equipped to handle ' the scenery of 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 ...
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The view of 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 ...
The view of 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 ...
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