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Page 118
... turn it in another direction. He turns it ably and quietly by introducing a series of scenes describing the application of Scottish drink to Scottish life: teTLtTM*. °n. thee. aft. Scotland. chows. her. cood. pliable; choice In souple ...
... turn it in another direction. He turns it ably and quietly by introducing a series of scenes describing the application of Scottish drink to Scottish life: teTLtTM*. °n. thee. aft. Scotland. chows. her. cood. pliable; choice In souple ...
Page 337
... turn with skill fairly early in his career. They must be distinguished again from the songs written in a conventional neoclassic diction echoing a conventional neoclassic emotion — such as several of those written to Clarinda. "Mary ...
... turn with skill fairly early in his career. They must be distinguished again from the songs written in a conventional neoclassic diction echoing a conventional neoclassic emotion — such as several of those written to Clarinda. "Mary ...
Page 339
... turn on the fifth line, where the repetition of the rhyme of the fourth and second lines turns the stanza over, as it were, to start on a new tack; the second rhyming word of the first part of the verse becomes the first rhyming word of ...
... turn on the fifth line, where the repetition of the rhyme of the fourth and second lines turns the stanza over, as it were, to start on a new tack; the second rhyming word of the first part of the verse becomes the first rhyming word of ...
Contents
Chapter Two growth of a poet | 34 |
Chapter Three the Kilmarnock volume | 105 |
Chapter Four the omitted poems | 196 |
Copyright | |
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