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... reveal that from the beginning of his activity as a poet he was interested in the technical problems of versification . If he never learned to distinguish emotional control from emotional self - indulgence in eighteenth- century English ...
... reveal that from the beginning of his activity as a poet he was interested in the technical problems of versification . If he never learned to distinguish emotional control from emotional self - indulgence in eighteenth- century English ...
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... reveals it when we least expect it : O thou that in the heavens does dwell ! Wha , as it pleases best Thysel , Sends ane ... revealed . Holy Willie is not a conscious hypocrite . When he attributes his lust to God's protective desire to ...
... reveals it when we least expect it : O thou that in the heavens does dwell ! Wha , as it pleases best Thysel , Sends ane ... revealed . Holy Willie is not a conscious hypocrite . When he attributes his lust to God's protective desire to ...
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