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Page 85
... Poet , nor young Soldier's heart ever beat more fondly for fame than mine- We see here the mixture of patriotism , ambition , and interest in the earlier Scottish poets which was to prove so powerful a spur to his poetic activity . Two ...
... Poet , nor young Soldier's heart ever beat more fondly for fame than mine- We see here the mixture of patriotism , ambition , and interest in the earlier Scottish poets which was to prove so powerful a spur to his poetic activity . Two ...
Page 101
... poet , and that he meant it from the first as an opening rather than a farewell gesture is clear from the whole pattern of his behaviour with respect to the book . Burns seems early to have formed the habit of thinking of himself as a Poet ...
... poet , and that he meant it from the first as an opening rather than a farewell gesture is clear from the whole pattern of his behaviour with respect to the book . Burns seems early to have formed the habit of thinking of himself as a Poet ...
Page 103
... poet whose audience had hitherto been restricted to friends and neighbours in his own corner of Scotland , a poet , moreover , with little of the formal education which he understood , from a study of Masson's reader and similar books ...
... poet whose audience had hitherto been restricted to friends and neighbours in his own corner of Scotland , a poet , moreover , with little of the formal education which he understood , from a study of Masson's reader and similar books ...
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