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Page 128
... opening of several earlier Scottish mock elegies . Here is the opening verse of Robert Sempill's ' Life and Death of the Piper of Kilbarchan or , the Epitaph of Habbie Simson ' as printed in Watson's Collection : remedy Kilbarchan now ...
... opening of several earlier Scottish mock elegies . Here is the opening verse of Robert Sempill's ' Life and Death of the Piper of Kilbarchan or , the Epitaph of Habbie Simson ' as printed in Watson's Collection : remedy Kilbarchan now ...
Page 143
... opening stanza ( which sounds as though it had been added to the poem as an after- thought ) is full of the posturing which Burns was led into when he wrote with the genteel tradition too much in mind . My lov'd , my honor'd , much ...
... opening stanza ( which sounds as though it had been added to the poem as an after- thought ) is full of the posturing which Burns was led into when he wrote with the genteel tradition too much in mind . My lov'd , my honor'd , much ...
Page 144
... opening verse , and considering the poem as beginning with the second . ) In the next stanza the verse is lighter and not quite so well adapted to the elaborate Spenserian stanza ( Burns would have done better to use Fergusson's simpler ...
... opening verse , and considering the poem as beginning with the second . ) In the next stanza the verse is lighter and not quite so well adapted to the elaborate Spenserian stanza ( Burns would have done better to use Fergusson's simpler ...
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