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... feeling that Burns was a ' real ' person , that he under- stood men and their weaknesses , that he really knew what life was about , that he spoke for his fellowmen in a unique way and to a unique degree . The English worship of Shake ...
... feeling that Burns was a ' real ' person , that he under- stood men and their weaknesses , that he really knew what life was about , that he spoke for his fellowmen in a unique way and to a unique degree . The English worship of Shake ...
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... feeling represented by that arch - sentimental novel , Henry Mackenzie's Man of Feeling . They liked to reflect how ' a cultivated taste increases sensi- bility to all the tender and humane passions ' . Macpherson's Ossian had prepared ...
... feeling represented by that arch - sentimental novel , Henry Mackenzie's Man of Feeling . They liked to reflect how ' a cultivated taste increases sensi- bility to all the tender and humane passions ' . Macpherson's Ossian had prepared ...
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... feeling . It is significant that he wrote to a friend , enclosing the poem , as follows : ' I am a good deal pleased with some sentiments myself , as they are just the native querulous feelings of a heart which , as the elegantly ...
... feeling . It is significant that he wrote to a friend , enclosing the poem , as follows : ' I am a good deal pleased with some sentiments myself , as they are just the native querulous feelings of a heart which , as the elegantly ...
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