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Page 109
By now the ambling , conversational quality of the verse which we found in the earlier part of the poem has changed into a brisk , sharptoned , satirical style . The indictment flashes forth with wit and point , and Burns achieves in ...
By now the ambling , conversational quality of the verse which we found in the earlier part of the poem has changed into a brisk , sharptoned , satirical style . The indictment flashes forth with wit and point , and Burns achieves in ...
Page 164
Burns's inspiration seems to be flagging , and we have no doubt of it when in the succeeding stanza he moves into a prayer for his Jean wholly out of keeping with the tone of the earlier part of the poem : O all ye Pow'rs who rule above ...
Burns's inspiration seems to be flagging , and we have no doubt of it when in the succeeding stanza he moves into a prayer for his Jean wholly out of keeping with the tone of the earlier part of the poem : O all ye Pow'rs who rule above ...
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... the wife of an earlier minister of the Laigh Kirk ; Oliphant and Russell were successively ' auld licht ' ministers ... an earlier rule by Moderates , orthodox Mackinlay is going to restore the good old faith and drive out heresy .
... the wife of an earlier minister of the Laigh Kirk ; Oliphant and Russell were successively ' auld licht ' ministers ... an earlier rule by Moderates , orthodox Mackinlay is going to restore the good old faith and drive out heresy .
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