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Page 53
... thoughts to tragedy , and ' the bursting cloud of family misfortunes ' led him to write a ' tragic fragment ' , or , as he describes it in the Commonplace Book , ' a penitential thought , in the hour of Remorse , Intended for a tragedy ...
... thoughts to tragedy , and ' the bursting cloud of family misfortunes ' led him to write a ' tragic fragment ' , or , as he describes it in the Commonplace Book , ' a penitential thought , in the hour of Remorse , Intended for a tragedy ...
Page 91
... thought it pretty clever . - With a certain side of both clergy and laity it met with a roar of applause . - Holy Willie's Prayer next made its appearance , and alarmed the kirk- Session so much that they held three several meetings to ...
... thought it pretty clever . - With a certain side of both clergy and laity it met with a roar of applause . - Holy Willie's Prayer next made its appearance , and alarmed the kirk- Session so much that they held three several meetings to ...
Page 156
... thought as he did would have liked , and in trying to write for such an audience the poet only distorted his genius . His view of nature was equally different from that of the eighteenth - century dealers in the picturesque and the ...
... thought as he did would have liked , and in trying to write for such an audience the poet only distorted his genius . His view of nature was equally different from that of the eighteenth - century dealers in the picturesque and the ...
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