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... hand is that to be in ! ' Fergusson was not patronized and petted by the literati , although he did write quite a ... hands . Burns , who was always self - conscious about his rustic upbringing , sometimes tried to present himself to ...
... hand is that to be in ! ' Fergusson was not patronized and petted by the literati , although he did write quite a ... hands . Burns , who was always self - conscious about his rustic upbringing , sometimes tried to present himself to ...
Page 54
... hand in my Geometry ; till the sun entered Virgo , a month which is always a carnival in my bosom , a charming Fillette who lived next door to the school overset my Trigonometry [ sic ] , and set me off in a tangent from the sphere of ...
... hand in my Geometry ; till the sun entered Virgo , a month which is always a carnival in my bosom , a charming Fillette who lived next door to the school overset my Trigonometry [ sic ] , and set me off in a tangent from the sphere of ...
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... hand in hand we'll go ; And sleep thegither at the foot , John Anderson my Jo . Burns avoids sentimentality in a poem of this kind by avoiding generalizations and by projecting the emotion through a concrete situation . He learned to do ...
... hand in hand we'll go ; And sleep thegither at the foot , John Anderson my Jo . Burns avoids sentimentality in a poem of this kind by avoiding generalizations and by projecting the emotion through a concrete situation . He learned to do ...
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