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Page 137
... piece of gesturing for a genteel audience . We do not need the overt , sentimental moralizing of the second - last stanza to inform us that he has succumbed to his temptation to strike attitudes . The tone of the latter part of the poem ...
... piece of gesturing for a genteel audience . We do not need the overt , sentimental moralizing of the second - last stanza to inform us that he has succumbed to his temptation to strike attitudes . The tone of the latter part of the poem ...
Page 272
... piece of the 1793 edition . Two slight and uninteresting pieces follow - ' On Seeing a Wounded Hare ' and ' Ad- dress to the Shade of Thomson ' - and the next new poem is that fine description of Captain Grose which we have discussed in ...
... piece of the 1793 edition . Two slight and uninteresting pieces follow - ' On Seeing a Wounded Hare ' and ' Ad- dress to the Shade of Thomson ' - and the next new poem is that fine description of Captain Grose which we have discussed in ...
Page 297
... piece ; but the melody rather than the words has kept it popular in Scotland . Another popular piece , also described as ' written for this work by Robert Burns ' , is ' McPherson's Farewell ' , deriving ultimately from a broadside ...
... piece ; but the melody rather than the words has kept it popular in Scotland . Another popular piece , also described as ' written for this work by Robert Burns ' , is ' McPherson's Farewell ' , deriving ultimately from a broadside ...
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