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... mood; a mood which impelled the philosophers to reject the official religious ideas of their country (so hotly debated and so keenly expounded) as a basis for the foundation of a new philosophical system, in favor of general principles ...
... mood; a mood which impelled the philosophers to reject the official religious ideas of their country (so hotly debated and so keenly expounded) as a basis for the foundation of a new philosophical system, in favor of general principles ...
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... mood. It is true, of course, that the poem is a bacchanalian poem, with a deliberately induced and not very profound roistering mood. But like "The Twa Dogs" it ends in a rather different mood from that in which it began; there is a ...
... mood. It is true, of course, that the poem is a bacchanalian poem, with a deliberately induced and not very profound roistering mood. But like "The Twa Dogs" it ends in a rather different mood from that in which it began; there is a ...
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... mood rather than a philosophy, a mood of defiance of the rich and of happy acceptance of easygoing poverty. To seek for profundity of ethical thought here would be to miss the point of the poem, which seeks to capture a transitory state ...
... mood rather than a philosophy, a mood of defiance of the rich and of happy acceptance of easygoing poverty. To seek for profundity of ethical thought here would be to miss the point of the poem, which seeks to capture a transitory state ...
Contents
Chapter Two growth of a poet | 34 |
Chapter Three the Kilmarnock volume | 105 |
Chapter Four the omitted poems | 196 |
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