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Page 109
... earlier part of the poem has changed into a brisk , sharp- toned , satirical style . The indictment flashes forth with wit and point , and Burns achieves in octosyllables something of what Pope achieved with the heroic couplet . The ...
... earlier part of the poem has changed into a brisk , sharp- toned , satirical style . The indictment flashes forth with wit and point , and Burns achieves in octosyllables something of what Pope achieved with the heroic couplet . The ...
Page 129
... earlier poems , we see at once the tradition in which Burns was working : salt copestone Lament in rhyme , lament in prose , Wi ' saut tears trickling down your nose ; Our Bardie's fate is at a close , Past a ' remead ; The last , sad ...
... earlier poems , we see at once the tradition in which Burns was working : salt copestone Lament in rhyme , lament in prose , Wi ' saut tears trickling down your nose ; Our Bardie's fate is at a close , Past a ' remead ; The last , sad ...
Page 180
... earlier minister of the Laigh Kirk ; Oliphant and Russell were successively ' auld licht ' ministers at another Kilmarnock church . But one hardly needs to know these details in order to appreciate the essential point being made - that ...
... earlier minister of the Laigh Kirk ; Oliphant and Russell were successively ' auld licht ' ministers at another Kilmarnock church . But one hardly needs to know these details in order to appreciate the essential point being made - that ...
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