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Page 212
... effect by his apparent indifference. The next six verses are directed against the enemies of Calvinist orthodoxy, in particular against Gavin Hamilton, and against Robert Aiken, who represented Hamilton in his fight with the Kirk ...
... effect by his apparent indifference. The next six verses are directed against the enemies of Calvinist orthodoxy, in particular against Gavin Hamilton, and against Robert Aiken, who represented Hamilton in his fight with the Kirk ...
Page 229
... effect. The meaning of "The Jolly Beggars" is greater than the sum of the meaning of the various songs; the setting provides its own amplification, while the cumulative effect of the introduction of the characters and their songs is a ...
... effect. The meaning of "The Jolly Beggars" is greater than the sum of the meaning of the various songs; the setting provides its own amplification, while the cumulative effect of the introduction of the characters and their songs is a ...
Page 327
... effect; & shall certainly have none in my projected song to it. — It is not, however, a case in point with Rothemurche: there, as in "Roy's wife of Aldivaloeh," a chorus, to my taste, goes well enough. — As to the chorus going first ...
... effect; & shall certainly have none in my projected song to it. — It is not, however, a case in point with Rothemurche: there, as in "Roy's wife of Aldivaloeh," a chorus, to my taste, goes well enough. — As to the chorus going first ...
Contents
Chapter Two growth of a poet | 34 |
Chapter Three the Kilmarnock volume | 105 |
Chapter Four the omitted poems | 196 |
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