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Page 59
... feelings of the heart"; for by this time he had discovered Henry Mackenzie's Man of Feeling and had been precipitated into the mainstream of eighteenth-century sentimentalism. "My life flowed on much in the same tenor till my twenty ...
... feelings of the heart"; for by this time he had discovered Henry Mackenzie's Man of Feeling and had been precipitated into the mainstream of eighteenth-century sentimentalism. "My life flowed on much in the same tenor till my twenty ...
Page 103
... feeling of remorse in this connection. The reference to "some wandering stabs of remorse" earlier in the letter may be considered too slight an expression of his feelings under such circumstances, but one must remember that neither ...
... feeling of remorse in this connection. The reference to "some wandering stabs of remorse" earlier in the letter may be considered too slight an expression of his feelings under such circumstances, but one must remember that neither ...
Page 172
... feelings had become petrified he would not have felt the horror of petrified feeling which he expresses here; the point seems to be that unless one's feelings do become petrified one cannot escape feelings of remorse and regret. It is ...
... feelings had become petrified he would not have felt the horror of petrified feeling which he expresses here; the point seems to be that unless one's feelings do become petrified one cannot escape feelings of remorse and regret. It is ...
Contents
Chapter Two growth of a poet | 34 |
Chapter Three the Kilmarnock volume | 105 |
Chapter Four the omitted poems | 196 |
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