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... fact , he laughed at Mackenzie , and in his poem , " The Sow of Feeling , " implicitly ridiculed Mackenzie's famous sentimental novel , The Man of Feeling . Burns however , as we shall see , did for a time attempt a rapprochement with ...
... fact , he laughed at Mackenzie , and in his poem , " The Sow of Feeling , " implicitly ridiculed Mackenzie's famous sentimental novel , The Man of Feeling . Burns however , as we shall see , did for a time attempt a rapprochement with ...
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... fact pos- sessed of much ability or character . Burns at this time needed their friendship and needed to believe that they were more " sympathique " than they in fact were ; and so he welcomed their friendship and made something of it ...
... fact pos- sessed of much ability or character . Burns at this time needed their friendship and needed to believe that they were more " sympathique " than they in fact were ; and so he welcomed their friendship and made something of it ...
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... fact , a heavy drinker for the period ; he did not have a good head for liquor and it took less to affect him than it often did others . The suggestion that in his last years he had become a drunkard is wholly false , a legend which ...
... fact , a heavy drinker for the period ; he did not have a good head for liquor and it took less to affect him than it often did others . The suggestion that in his last years he had become a drunkard is wholly false , a legend which ...
Contents
Preface | 1 |
Chapter Two GROWTH OF A POET | 34 |
Chapter Three THE KILMARNOCK VOLUME | 105 |
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