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Page 134
... suggestion that even the devil might perhaps repent and escape from " yon den " is not the mere sentimentality that some critics have believed it to be : it is a satiric thrust at the Calvin- ist view adroitly disguised as a piece of ...
... suggestion that even the devil might perhaps repent and escape from " yon den " is not the mere sentimentality that some critics have believed it to be : it is a satiric thrust at the Calvin- ist view adroitly disguised as a piece of ...
Page 303
... suggestion that in his last years he had become a drunkard is wholly false , a legend which developed largely as the result of the misleading account in the pages of Dr. Currie , Burns's first biographer and an ardent prohibi- tionist ...
... suggestion that in his last years he had become a drunkard is wholly false , a legend which developed largely as the result of the misleading account in the pages of Dr. Currie , Burns's first biographer and an ardent prohibi- tionist ...
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... suggestion by Hugh Blair . Blair had not actually sug- gested “ damnation , ” but had noted that “ salvation ” ought to be altered and added : " The Author may easily contrive some other Rhyme in place of the word Salvn . " " 4. So ...
... suggestion by Hugh Blair . Blair had not actually sug- gested “ damnation , ” but had noted that “ salvation ” ought to be altered and added : " The Author may easily contrive some other Rhyme in place of the word Salvn . " " 4. So ...
Contents
Preface | 1 |
Chapter Two GROWTH OF A POET | 34 |
Chapter Three THE KILMARNOCK VOLUME | 105 |
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