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... turning out edifying genteel platitudes about the life of the peasant . There is yet another Burns , besides the unromantic love poet and the posturing sentimentalist , and that Burns , though largely ignored by the Burns cult , has a ...
... turning out edifying genteel platitudes about the life of the peasant . There is yet another Burns , besides the unromantic love poet and the posturing sentimentalist , and that Burns , though largely ignored by the Burns cult , has a ...
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... turning to God in repen- tance ) is employed with mischievous ambiguity . Again , the conjunction of fou o ' love divine ' and ' fou o ' brandy ' fur- ther emphasizes the theme , while the popular Scots word des- cribing the probable ...
... turning to God in repen- tance ) is employed with mischievous ambiguity . Again , the conjunction of fou o ' love divine ' and ' fou o ' brandy ' fur- ther emphasizes the theme , while the popular Scots word des- cribing the probable ...
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... turning her up in her nest with the plough , and goes on to reflect that , just as the mouse's provision for winter has been brought to nothing by this accident , so The best - laid schemes o ' Mice an ' Men Gang aft agleya and he ...
... turning her up in her nest with the plough , and goes on to reflect that , just as the mouse's provision for winter has been brought to nothing by this accident , so The best - laid schemes o ' Mice an ' Men Gang aft agleya and he ...
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