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The entry in the Commonplace Book is preceded by this note : There is certainly some connection between Love , and Music & Poetry ; and therefore , I have always thought it a fine touch of Nature , that passage in a modern love ...
The entry in the Commonplace Book is preceded by this note : There is certainly some connection between Love , and Music & Poetry ; and therefore , I have always thought it a fine touch of Nature , that passage in a modern love ...
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Hard times at Mount Oliphant also turned his 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 ...
Hard times at Mount Oliphant also turned his 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 ...
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The fact is , however , that Burns was not equipped to handle ' the scenery of Nature ' as Mackenzie and those who thought as he did would have liked , and in trying to write for such an audience the poet only distorted his genius .
The fact is , however , that Burns was not equipped to handle ' the scenery of Nature ' as Mackenzie and those who thought as he did would have liked , and in trying to write for such an audience the poet only distorted his genius .
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