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Page 82
... turn of mind , and pursuits of such a one as the above verses describe - one who spends the hours & thoughts which the vocations of the day can spare with Ossian , Shakespeare , Thomson , Shenstone , Sterne & c . or as the maggot takes ...
... turn of mind , and pursuits of such a one as the above verses describe - one who spends the hours & thoughts which the vocations of the day can spare with Ossian , Shakespeare , Thomson , Shenstone , Sterne & c . or as the maggot takes ...
Page 110
... turning into a celebration of the girls of his native city . ( It is probably from Fergusson that Burns learned to ' turn ' a poem with such dexterity , moving it from its ostensible to its real subject without the reader's being aware ...
... turning into a celebration of the girls of his native city . ( It is probably from Fergusson that Burns learned to ' turn ' a poem with such dexterity , moving it from its ostensible to its real subject without the reader's being aware ...
Page 156
... turn out a sang ; Perhaps , turn out a sermon . After this introductory stanza , Burns proceeds to moralize about man and his propensities for good and evil , but the moralizing proceeds so unselfconsciously , follows the curve of the ...
... turn out a sang ; Perhaps , turn out a sermon . After this introductory stanza , Burns proceeds to moralize about man and his propensities for good and evil , but the moralizing proceeds so unselfconsciously , follows the curve of the ...
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