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Page 77
... shows him defying public opinion , but the poem returns at once to a note of fatherly affection , and it is on that note that it rests : country gossip tattle feeble give one annoyance Tho ' now they ca ' me fornicator , An ' tease my ...
... shows him defying public opinion , but the poem returns at once to a note of fatherly affection , and it is on that note that it rests : country gossip tattle feeble give one annoyance Tho ' now they ca ' me fornicator , An ' tease my ...
Page 129
... shows the same mixture of mockery and genuine affection that we find in Fergusson , but Burns's poem has in addition that special unsentimental feeling of companionship for animals which he expresses with greatest success in " The Auld ...
... shows the same mixture of mockery and genuine affection that we find in Fergusson , but Burns's poem has in addition that special unsentimental feeling of companionship for animals which he expresses with greatest success in " The Auld ...
Page 154
... shows that the English neoclassic tradition was not always or necessarily a corrupting influence on Burns . " To a Mountain Daisy ' ( which comes near the end of the Kilmarnock volume ) is less successful . It lacks the ease and air of ...
... shows that the English neoclassic tradition was not always or necessarily a corrupting influence on Burns . " To a Mountain Daisy ' ( which comes near the end of the Kilmarnock volume ) is less successful . It lacks the ease and air of ...
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