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He made no real attempt to reconcile his literary activity with the sentimentality of Henry Mackenzie or the rhetorical ... “ The Sow of Feeling ' , implicitly ridiculed Mackenzie's famous sentimental novel , The Man of Feeling .
He made no real attempt to reconcile his literary activity with the sentimentality of Henry Mackenzie or the rhetorical ... “ The Sow of Feeling ' , implicitly ridiculed Mackenzie's famous sentimental novel , The Man of Feeling .
Page 70
My favourite authors are of the sentim " kind , such as Shenstone , particularly his Elegies , Thomson , Man of Feeling , a book I prize next to the Bible , Man of the World , Sterne , especially his Sentimental journey , Macpherson's ...
My favourite authors are of the sentim " kind , such as Shenstone , particularly his Elegies , Thomson , Man of Feeling , a book I prize next to the Bible , Man of the World , Sterne , especially his Sentimental journey , Macpherson's ...
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... almost the cotter himself ; at still another he is the sophisticated moralist acting as guide , showing offhis rustic character for the benefit of a sentimental , genteel audience . That audience appreciated the exhibition Burns ...
... almost the cotter himself ; at still another he is the sophisticated moralist acting as guide , showing offhis rustic character for the benefit of a sentimental , genteel audience . That audience appreciated the exhibition Burns ...
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| Title | Robert Burns |
| Author | David Daiches |
| Edition | revised |
| Publisher | Macmillan, 1967 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 7 Mar 2008 |
| Length | 334 pages |
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