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Page 148
... piece of gesturing for a genteel audience . We do not need the overt , sentimental moralizing of the second - to - last stanza to inform us that he has succumbed to his temptation to strike attitudes . The tone of the latter part of the ...
... piece of gesturing for a genteel audience . We do not need the overt , sentimental moralizing of the second - to - last stanza to inform us that he has succumbed to his temptation to strike attitudes . The tone of the latter part of the ...
Page 313
... piece , & wrote for music too ! Ode to Spring - Tune , The tither morn.— When maukin bucks , at early f- In dewy grass are seen , Sir , And birds , on boughs , take off their m- Amang the leaves sae green , Sir ; Latona's sun looks ...
... piece , & wrote for music too ! Ode to Spring - Tune , The tither morn.— When maukin bucks , at early f- In dewy grass are seen , Sir , And birds , on boughs , take off their m- Amang the leaves sae green , Sir ; Latona's sun looks ...
Page 335
... piece perfectly to its tune . All these monosyllabic line end- ings in Burns's songs help to reproduce the effect of ... piece ; but the melody rather than the words has kept it popular in Scotland . Another popular piece , also ...
... piece perfectly to its tune . All these monosyllabic line end- ings in Burns's songs help to reproduce the effect of ... piece ; but the melody rather than the words has kept it popular in Scotland . Another popular piece , also ...
Contents
Preface | 1 |
Chapter Two GROWTH OF A POET | 34 |
Chapter Three THE KILMARNOCK VOLUME | 105 |
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